Nazir Khaja, Board Memember, MCA

If matters of faith were kept clean of politics then life on this planet would be a lot easier. Wherever people of faith gather to ponder over what to them matters at the deepest level of their being, they come up with the same answer. That there is one transcendal Being who we refer to as God, Yahweh, Allah, or any other name regardless of what our religion is. Unfortunately the matter then does not rest here. It goes from there to religion with its demand for rituals and obligations. This creates a divide from others whom we begin to perceive as less perfect or in fact inferior, further drawing a moat around our faith- based group identity. Historically territorial expansion and acquisition of power and control of resource have all been do...

* Suspected mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan: Identified as a Muslim American of Jordanian or Palestinian Descend, a sympathizer of suicide bombing, a convert to Islam, a Jihadist, a true believer in the Quran, a practicing Muslim, a promoter of Al-Qaida ideology, a member of a terrorist cell and so on so forth. Look at the pattern of news reporting about mass killers in our national and local media listed below and then tell me who is distorting facts? Tell me who is misleading the public? Tell me who is sowing the seeds of hatred. Some of them will say, Aslam Abdullah, because he is a Muslim American, a Middle Eastern by ethnicity and a covert terrorist. Can any sensible American accept their claim? Yes, only those who see Muslims and Islam as their new enemy. These are people who are ...