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Full Battle Rattle

A friend of mine sent me this link about a movie that deals with the virtual Iraq we have created in the US. I’m serious. We have built an Iraq in the US to train our soldiers to go to Iraq. Fighting them over here so we can fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.

Newsday on America to Zanzibar

Here is a Newsday article on the exhibit America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far, at The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, for which I was the lead academic advisor. It’s a good chance to shout out my friends from high school. “Our goal is to have children deal with differences in a healthy, positive way and encourage them to be inquisitive while exploring the world instead of running away from its differences,” Rashid said, an experience not so different from his years growing up in Elmont.  

Interview with producers of #FlyingWhileMuslim

From Neem Magazine. Below is the list of interviewees: Anthony Shadid – Pulitzer Prize Awardee and Washington Post Journalist; Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! Host; Brigitte Gabriel – Author, “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America” and American Congress for Truth Founder; Robert Spencer – Jihad Watch Director; Arwa and Sumia Ibrahim – Profiled at JFK; Raed Jarrar – Profiled at JFK and won a court case against Jet Blue; Talat Hamdani – Mother of Mohammed Salman Hamdani; Robert Steele – Former CIA Agent; Reginald Shuford – ACLU, Senior Legal Officer; Dalia Hashad – Amnesty International, Director…