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MUST READ ARTICLES FROM OTHER SITES

TAM article collection of important articles on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (to be updated)  We have attempted to collect key articles from around the world.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Releases Recommendations to Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61&sectiontree=5,61&itemid=444

Mitt Romney’s Defense Cult, Matt Miller http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-defense-cult/2011/10/12/gIQAdCBSfL_story.html

The Real Story of How Israel Was Created, Alison Weir http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/11/the-real-story-of-how-israel-was-created/

The Myth of American Exceptionalism, Stephen M. Walt http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11/the_myth_of_american_exceptionalism

The Seven Biggest Economic Lies, Robert Reich http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29375.htm

Hate speech against Muslims incites violence, Anya Cordell http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/hate-speech-against-muslims-incites-violence/2011/10/03/gIQA8QmqIL_blog.html

Why Fewer Young American Jews Share Their Parents’ View of Israel, Dana Goldstein http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2095505,00.html#ixzz1ZR83fMYm

Yemeni forces ‘kill’ cleric Anwar al-Awlaki http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/201193083340115111.html?utm_content=automateplus&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_term=tweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount  -  http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/30/world/africa/yemen-radical-cleric/index.html

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality, Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/30/awlaki

Islam, Judaism - Tolerance Could Lead to Democracy, Peace in Holy Land,  David Byrd http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Islam-Judaism-Tolerance-Could-Lead-to-Democracy-Peace-130712923.html

Muslims hold anti-terrorism rally in London http://www.npr.org/2011/09/24/140771624/muslims-hold-rally-in-london-against-terrorism

Saudi Arabia grants women the right to vote and hold office http://www.islamonline.com/news/articles/2/Saudi-Arabia-Grants-Women-the-Right-to-Vote-&-Hold.html

The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer, Glenn Greenwald (Israel Lobby) http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/18/friedman/index.html

Obama’s Historic Opportunity (U.N. Palestine vote), Gideon Levy http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/obama-s-historic-opportunity-1.385084

U.S. Right-Wing and GOP Presidential Candidates Spreading Paranoid Anti-Muslim Hysteria as Part of Take-Over Strategy, Max Blumenthal http://www.alternet.org/story/152274/u.s._right-wing_and_gop_presidential_candidates_spreading_paranoid_anti-muslim_hysteria_as_part_of_take-over_strategy/?page=entire

Jews and Muslims in America, More in Common Than We Think, Joshua Stanton http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/4410

The Lost Female Scholars of Islam, Dr. Ikram Nadwi http://www.emel.com/article?id=89&a_id=828

Moving from Exclusion to Embrace: Interview with Miroslav Volf on Christianity and Islam
Volf discusses Islam’s approach to God and why Christians and Muslims inhabit the same moral universe. http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Deeply-Unchristian-Patton-Dodd-08-29-2011.html

Hamza Yusuf on women leading prayer (with video)  http://www.altmuslimah.com/a/b/a/leading_scholar_hamza_yusuf_on_women_leading_prayer/

The DOJ’s escalating criminalization of speech, Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/04/speech/index.html

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“Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well you will treat them well, and that if they do wrong you will do wrong to them. Instead, accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and not to do wrong (even) if they do evil.” — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers,  the genius of its scientists,  the hopes of its children….This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. — Dwight D. Eisenhower farewell speech to the American people.

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THE GOLDEN RULE
— Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
— Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
— Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12
— Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
— Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah
— Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
— Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.: T’ai Shag Kan Ying P’ien
— Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

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