Hillary Clinton Is The Debate Winner: Donald Trump Loses All Three Presidential Debates Despite Insults
Hillary Clinton sighed and rolled her eyes through the final presidential debate Wednesday night, emerging the winner largely by ignoring Donald Trump’s bait about her husband’s many alleged affairs, his accusations that she created ISIS and any probing questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Pundits said heading into […]
How does Donald Trump still have supporters?
Suppose the Republican party had nominated, as its candidate for U.S. president, an actual nine-year-old boy, rather than a nine-year-old in the body of a man. Or suppose, instead of a candidate who spins wild, racially tinged conspiracy theories, exults in violence, and refuses to denounce the KKK, it had selected an authentic grand wizard, […]
US election: Muslim voters as Donald Trump’s nemesis?
New York, United States – The blue skies were among the prettiest that a New York autumn could offer, but still a cloud hung over Masjid-al-Aman mosque on Friday, the last day that locals could register to vote in next month’s bitterly contested presidential election. The community of Bangladeshi immigrants in Ozone Park, Brooklyn, still […]
American elections and Muslims
During the Cold War, for nearly four decades, most Muslim countries remained the closest of allies of the US and other Western countries in the common fight against the spread of Soviet communism. Pakistan, along with Saudi Arabia, played a leading role by providing bases, facilitating training of jihadists and extending logistic support. Afghan jihadi […]
Muslim women seek elected offices in Maryland
ANALYSIS/OPINION During one of the most memorable election cycles in recent history, one county in Maryland is adding its own twist: Three Muslim women are running for three different offices at the same time. The Muslim candidates all hail from varying backgrounds, but each reside in Montgomery County, Maryland. Emmalee Aman is running for the […]
Why I will vote for Bernie Sanders
In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, the eminent US dissident and world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky comes out supporting the presidential candidate Bernie Sanders whom he considers having “best policies of the Democratic presidential contenders in this election year”. But since he does not believe Sanders has much of a chance of winning, he concludes […]