Salado TX–The Christmas Day terrorist attempt to bring down another airliner refreshes our collective recognition that terrorist organizations are still at war with the United States and still devoted to killing innocent citizens. Once again, we see how difficult it is to identify a person as a threat before an event, even though we...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Rubeiz: Lebanon not ready for radical reform
Palm Beach Gardens FL–In attempting to reform their state, the Lebanese fear the unraveling of their nation. President Obama was well briefed on Lebanon’s fragile, “national unity” government, when he received the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on December 14. In private, the US president demanded from Suleiman to control Hezbollah’s growing military power. In...
Beryl Wajsman: A season of conscience
Montreal QC–Many people deride the generosity of spirit and selflessness of action that pervades our civic life during this time of year. They call it hypocritical. A passing fancy. They should not do that. This season of conscience is no longer limited to the twelve days of Christmas. It seems to start somewhere around...
Ghassan Rubeiz: Banning minarets in Switzerland
Palm Beach Gardens FL–The freedom to express symbols in the place of worship is an important part of religious rights guaranteed by all democratic societies. Now, Switzerland has one thing in common with Saudi Arabia. The Swiss referendum vote to ban erection of minarets is reminiscent of Saudi Arabia’s banning of church buildings. The...
Ghassan Rubeiz: Profiling in America can only backfire
The September 11, 2001, events shocked Arab and Muslim Americans, and the recent tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, in which Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30, heightened their identification with the United States. There are signs that Hasan’s acts of terror caused Americans of Middle Eastern and Muslim origin to want...
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