| Fight over mosque is bigotry in disguise BY AREF ASSAF Daily Record Op-Ed The unprecedented public uproar over the planned Rockaway mosque has been partly premised on the false view that American Muslims are responsible for acts committed by other |
| Ramadan A Time to Self-enrichment AREF ASSAF Bergen Record Op-Ed Featured Daily Record Op-Ed, 9/8/2007 FOR ABOUT 30 day days starting today, my wife and I and our five children will wake up around 3 a.m. to consume a light |
| FEATURED Article: Neo-cons’ plans for Iraq predated 9/11 HASSAN MAHMOUD, Be Counted “If we’d gone to Baghdad we would been all alone. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. Once you get to Iraq and took it over, |
| Stop Dreamin’ Aref Assaf So President Bush finally recognizes the urgent need to address the Palestine-Israel conflict. His “vision” of an independent Palestine state, first articulated in 2002, we are told, will be at the center of a major international |
| Anti-Islamic, Anti-American Aref Assaf Bergen Record Op-Ed Online comments regarding the plans o build an Islamic center in Rockaway seethe with much ignorance and anger. Whether many hate mongers like or not, Muslims are in Morris County, NJ) here and |
| Sorry, You Cannot Become a US Citizen! Aref Assaf Bergen Record Op-Ed While the heated and polarized debate on the issue of illegal immigration intensifies, little is surfaced about those who face untold obstacles in their desire to legally become |
| Divide and Conquer will fail in Palestine Aref Assaf Daily Record Op-ED Herald News Special Feature Op-Ed , 6/24/2007 Published in the Star Ledger, 6/28/2007 We could see it coming when, upon a recent visit to Palestine, a young Palestinian |
| A Qualitative Change in Racial and Ethnic Profiling Aref Assaf The Bergen Record’s lead article today, “Al-Qaida Associates in NJ” by Mike Kelly, caught my eye. (Read the article below) As I read the column, I immediately and almost instinctively |
| US Has Hypocritical Nuclear Policy Aref Assaf Daily Record Op-Ed As the world decides how to punish Iran for its acquisition of nuclear power capability, there is a kind of nuclear hypocrisy which lurks beneath US claims. One facet is |
| Between vision and delusions: The upcoming trilateral meetings between the US, Israel and the Palestinians Aref Assaf Daily Record Op-Ed The Palestine Israel problem is finally getting some attention from the Bush Administration. It was Bush‘s doctrine to allow Israel |
