Fear, laced with paranoia, is driving the American response against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States.
President Obama has said he would accept 10,000 refugees, all of them subjected to intense scrutiny before being admitted to the country. France, with a population about one-fifth that of the United States, despite the worst attack on its soil since World War II, will accept 30,000 refugees.
There's a sickening rush by cowardly/opportunistic politicians to demonize refugees-- fleeing for their lives from these ISIS monsters-- as, in Trump's words, "Trojan Horses" who will come here and murder us.
DWT has a history of opposing Indian fascist leader Narendra Modi. We tend to oppose religious bigots and genocidal murderers like Modi anywhere in the world, but especially in places we love, like India.
By Ahmed RAJEEV | Oriental Review | November 6, 2015 On Thursday French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo published another insulting cartoon on the tragic incident of Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt. Charlie Hebdo ridiculed the plane crash in two cartoons. The first cartoon shows parts of the aircraft and a passenger falling toward […]
RT | November 4, 2015 Civil rights activists are speaking out about revelations that an undercover detective with the New York Police Department “converted” to Islam in order to spy on Muslim students at Brooklyn College over a four-year period. That work led to the recent arrest of two Queens women allegedly involved in a […]
By Harry Clark | CounterPunch | October 16, 2015 In 1992, Marc Ellis wrote an important article for the time, “Beyond the Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” which appeared in The Link, published by Americans for Middle East Understanding. Ellis found that “the Jewish progressive consensus position is a form of oppression vis-à-vis […]
Thanks to creative intervention, Arabic graffiti stating ‘Homeland is racist’ featured in key scene By Sarah Lazare | Common Dreams | October 15, 2015 The U.S. television series “Homeland”—widely criticized as Islamophobic and racist—was hacked by three street artists who were hired to paint “authentic” Arabic graffiti for a film set depicting a refugee camp […]
By Ali Kazak | Dissident Voice | October 11, 2015 For years Israel and its lobby around the world have been trying to normalise their relations with Arabs and Muslims without solving the Palestine Question. One of the methods they resorted to in the last few years is using human rights and community organizations such […]
RT | October 9, 2015 More than 20 children including one baby have been taken into care over fears they could be subject to extremist views and radical Islam at home. Children from at least 11 families have been subjected to court orders, which remove children into state care. The youngest child is a one-year-old […]
"No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."-- the Constitution, Article VI (paragraph 3) The Founding Fathers wanted to keep the Constitution flexible. They rarely used the word "ever" or "never." They must have thought this section was pretty important to the essence of what they were trying to accomplish.
