Tweet The Funny issue of Charia Hebdo (pronounced like Sharia law, or Islamic law) “guest edited” by the prophet himself. The cover promised “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!” It seems every time a Muslim or a group of Muslims behave badly, the rest of us Muslim Americans get asked to respond to the situation, to try to explain their motives and to react to their horrible acts as if we were experts on terrorism or have special insight on Muslim rage. We are interrogated and experience something akin to EIT, “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” and “Forced Condemnation Reaction” of violence and extremism. Don Lemon of CNN, asked…
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..My 800 Words Torture Report…
Tweet By Ahmed Tharwat The release of the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report has brought back painful memories. Now everyone knows that our government has “tortured some folks,” as President Obama has put it when he wanted to be homey and cute. As someone who was tortured himself in an Egyptian jail, such charm is wasted on me. And contrary to what CIA director confusing knowable and unknowable thing, nothing is unknowable about Torture; The emotional and physical details remain vivid in my memory even after more than 40 years. I was a freshman at Cairo High School. Anti-government protests were a daily routine on Egyptian streets. I was too…
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Arab Americans are blacks now!!
Tweet On the job application that I filled out 30 years ago, Arabs and people of Middle-Eastern descent were included in the box under ‘white.’ Lots of Arabs didn’t mind that and enjoyed the ride of white privilege at least on paper. In the good old days, that is before the 9/11 tragedy, which changed the Americans’ psyche toward Arabs and Muslims forever, Arabs thought of themselves as invisible, and racism and racial profiling were just black issues, not theirs. Although, Arabs have their own misplaced racist attitudes toward darker-skinned people–even of their own ethnicity. The issue of Arabs and African identity is still a sad reality even though lots…
