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By Kourosh Ziabari Ziabari Muhammad Abdul Latif is the imam of Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California, and an instructor at ILM Tree, a home-schooling cooperative in Lafayette, California. He also teaches at Zaytuna College's annual Summer Arabic Intensive program in Berkeley, California. Abdul Latif converted to Islam in 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was 20 years old. He subsequently traveled throughout the Muslim world and, in 2002, relocated with his family to the San Francisco Bay Area to take advantage of the resources of knowledge and the community that had formed around Zaytuna Institute. Mr. Abdul Latif joined me in an interview to discuss the cancelled plan of Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Holy Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 attacks. We also discussed a variety of issues concerning the Islamic world including the growing wave of Islamophobia in the west, the plight of the Palestinian nation and the mainstream media's portrayal of ...

By Kourosh Ziabari As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives wider support from the world's nations for its uncompromising resistance against the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots. The world is witness to the growth of Iran's popularity while hatred and disgust against Israel builds up progressively. Iran is reaching out to the hearts and souls around the world while Israel ignites denunciation and deprecation in the four corners of the globe. Since Israel raided the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, the flimsy existence of Tel Aviv began to splinter as the world nations collectively and categorically reacted to the atrocious mass killing of 9 peace activists in the international waters by the Israel Defense Forces. Israel's unlawful, brutal killing of the unarmed civilians aboard the Freedom Flotilla sparked such a remarka ble international condemnation tha...

(Lástima de la nación, El secuestro de Líbano) " Pity the Nation " es un libro del periodista inglés Robert Fisk, que cubrió las guerras en Líbano para el diario inglés " The Times ". El título se basa en un poema del mismo nombre del poeta libanés Khalil Gibrán. Fisk es uno de los pocos periodistas en el mundo que ha reporteado las guerras de Medio Oriente desde los años 70's. Fue testigo de la llegada de los refugiados palestinos en Líbano, la invasión israelí en 1982, los intereses en juego de las grandes potencias mundiales, el nacimiento de la resistencia nacional libanesa y la influencia de los países vecinos en la modificación sociopolítica de este país. A lo largo del libro se detalla el martirio sufrido por todos los sectores de la población civil: cristianos, musulmanes tanto chiítas como sunnitas, drusos, etc. El heróico puebl o libanés ha padecido mucho dolor durante las 4 últimas décadas, baste recordar los ataques israelíes en Julio de 2006. Ren...