Friday January 25, 2013
By Jennine Vari
Yesterday afternoon the Center for American Progress hosted a panel discussion on the rise of right-wing extremist groups and the policies that the federal government can implement to address the growing number of crimes. Read More »
Wednesday January 23, 2013
In the past week there have been some great articles about the misleading torture narrative in Zero Dark Thirty, the popular movie chronicling the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Read More »
Tuesday January 22, 2013
By Jennine Vari
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urged governors and state legislators to consider Electoral College reform, by allocating electoral votes by congressional district as opposed to the winner-take-all system. Read More »
Wednesday January 16, 2013
The selection of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense has been significantly more controversial than that of John Brennan, a man who is associated with several of the nation’s troubling and controversial counterterrorism policies, and who has repeatedly provided legal justification for the use of torture on suspects, deeming it “an absolutely vital tool.” Read More »
Monday January 07, 2013
Today’s big news in Washington is the announcement of President Obama’s nominations for two key foreign policy posts: former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel has been tapped to be the next Secretary of Defense and current Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism John Brennan will leave the White House to serve as director of the CIA. Both men must be confirmed by the Senate in hearings expected to begin later this month. Though both of these nominations are important in their own right, they also provide a window into the evolving foreign policy outlook of the Obama Administration. The results are decidedly mixed. Read More »
Friday December 14, 2012
On its last day in session, the Michigan Legislature will not be voting on an “anti-Sharia” law. While it is troubling that we continue to deal with these initiatives (spearheaded by David Yerushalmi, co-founder of the American Freedom Law Center and “the man behind the anti-Sharia movement”), it is good news that the bill didn't make it to the floor. Read More »
Friday December 14, 2012
The bill in its current form not only discriminates on the application of the Due Process Clause afforded to immigrant communities but also makes it exceedingly difficult for the President to live up to his promise of once and for all closing the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center. Read More »
Wednesday December 12, 2012
The Daily Beast has a fascinating article yesterday about Josh Begley, a graduate student at NYU who designed an iPhone app that tracks compiles and maps information on drone strikes. Read More »
Wednesday November 28, 2012
In 2003, the 9/11 Commission recommended that a system be established to safeguard civil liberties in response to the flurry of national security and counter-terrorism legislation. A decade later, the PCLOB held its first public meeting, which mostly served to show how far the board still is from being capable of carrying out its intended functions. Read More »
Wednesday November 14, 2012
This week, AAI president Jim Zogby and Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, each wrote articles that appeared on “Open Zion,” a blog edited by Peter Beinart on The Daily Beast. They expressed very different views on the status quo of the Arab American community and the challenges of “normalizing” Arab American political perspectives. Jim’s article was posted in response to Mr. Ibish’s. An excerpt of both appears below. Take a look and let us know your thoughts. Read More »
Friday November 09, 2012
Today the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) convened a briefing on Federal Civil Rights Engagement with the Arab and Muslim American Communities Post 9/11. The commission hosted three panels to address “the success and failure of the federal government in engaging the Arab and Muslim American community post 9/11.” Read More »
Thursday November 08, 2012
Even though Obama’s re-election is a small victory for advocates of civil liberties and global peace, these ideals are far from assured. What we won yesterday is little more than the possibility of future success, the hope that cool heads in the second Obama administration will be able and willing to see past the mistakes of the first. Read More »
Wednesday November 07, 2012
American voters delivered a strong rebuke to Islamophobia and fear-mongering in last night’s election, with the defeat of several of the country’s most notoriously Islamophobic candidates. This cycle saw tough election battles for several members of the “hate caucus.” Read More »
Wednesday November 07, 2012
An under-reported story of this election took place in the fight for the Michigan Supreme Court, where Democratic-backed candidate Bridget McCormack successfully won a seat on the court despite a massive campaign from a DC-based organization to accuse her of “volunteer[ing] to help free a terrorist.” Read More »
Wednesday October 31, 2012
While hurricane Sandy had the rest of the government shut down, the Supreme Court went to work this week. Monday and Tuesday’s sessions brought both good and bad news from the court. Read More »
Monday October 29, 2012
On Wednesday, the Washington Post published a story about the Obama administration’s continued expansion of the drone war, the counterterrorism security apparatus, and the secretive “kill-list” of high-value assassination targets. The article is a shocking look at the extent to which the war on terror has profoundly eroded our civil liberties and inched us ever-closer to a state of perpetual war. Read More »
Friday October 26, 2012
It’s hard to believe we’re here already, but today marks the beginning of our 10 day countdown before the election. Between now and then, you will receive one email from us each day giving you a new opportunity to make a difference in this final stretch to November 6th. Read More »
Thursday October 25, 2012
On October 29th the Supreme Court will begin its second session of 2012. While it has received virtually no media attention compared to other cases on the docket for this session, the very first case the Supreme Court will hear bears significant implications for the future of our constitutional protections. Read More »
Tuesday October 23, 2012
This evening, AAI President Jim Zogby will participate on a panel at a day-long event held at the Washington National Cathedral hosted by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. The event, entitled Religious Diversity in America: The American Muslim Experience, aims to build on a summit held last year in Lebanon, a country with a history of sectarian division and inter-religious violence. Read More »
Monday October 15, 2012
The Obama administration took steps toward correcting this gaping hole in the WPEA yesterday with a policy directive extending protections to those who expose waste, fraud, or illegality in agencies that work on national security matters. Read More »
Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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The Muslim Brotherhood has a negative favorable/unfavorable ratio of 30%–47%
http://t.co/rMKu4JJrgW
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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