I Thought You Were a Christian
April 2, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
For seven months or so we have been hearing about nothing but our war on terrorism and about our growing list of Muslim targets that you have been trying to convince us that they are the major Read more
Image? What Image?
March 1, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
I read the following story this morning:
“We’ve got work to do” on image with Muslims, Bush says.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020228/ts_usatoday/3901277 Read more
What on Earth is Going On?
February 20, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
I am just tired of waking up to nothing but horrible news.
As both you and I were enjoying comfortable sleep in our warm beds close to our Read more
Your Guest of Honor is a Notorious Terrorist
February 7, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
In a highly publicized statement on March 8, 2001, to his minister of foreign affairs, your guest of “Honor,” Ariel Sharon, stated:
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” Read more
Did You Say What I Thought You Did?
January 30, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
I watched along with my fellow Americans your state of the union address, and I am just not sure of what I heard you saying.
Did you say that it was Muslims who had pictures and maps of our nuclear plants and vital sites? Are you sure you were not talking about the 6 Israeli Mossad agents arrested in the Midwest on October 27, 2001, or the 140 arrested for espionage against America? Or the 600 Israeli spies that we detained after September 11? Or the Israeli Mossad agents who were on the scene of the attacks against our embassies in Nairobi and Dar Salaam long before our personnel got there?
Did you refer to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hizbullah as terrorists? Do you know that in spite of all our sickening support to the terrorist Israel, refraining from attacking American targets and civilians remains at the highlight of the struggle and a firm policy of these very organizations?
Are you sure you did not mean Israel when you were talking about the terrorist who never ceases plotting against our country and citizens?
Is this finally the truth of our definition to terrorism as the ones who actually fight freedom and life with dignity, and to our friends and allies as the ones who never cease terrorism? Are you telling us that we suffer from “abused-nation syndrome,” where we just cannot have enough of our Israeli abusers?
Did I hear you supporting faith-based charities? Aren’t all the ones we seized during the Holy month of Ramadan just that? I hope you are not talking about Christian-based missionaries to poison Muslim minds and lands.
Your State of the Union Address reminded all of us of the importance of education
– education that is based on factual knowledge, not education of distortion.
Now more than ever, I plea to the Almighty with most fearful heart: “May God watch over our beloved country and our people.”
Truly Yours,
Nidal Sakr
Miami, Florida
Bush State of the “Onion”
January 29, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
As you rehearse your speech to a joint session of our current leaders, I will be addressing joint sessions of our future leaders at schools across our Great American land. As your speechwriters are hammering out what they think we need to hear, I will be professing to our youngsters what our country is all about.
I will be teaching them what it is that makes us proud to be Americans. Read more
Let Us Not Mess With Islam
January 19, 2002
Dear Mr. President,
Praise the Lord for your safety after ailment over the weekend. I did not have the chance to watch football over the weekend, for I have been busy watching the news of Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and its continued genocide against indigenous Palestinians. I also watched the induction of our newly recruited Saddam “Musharraf” to the “Muslim Leaders Hall of Shame.” Read more
Terrorism in the “War on Terrorism”
September 25, 2001
Dear Mr. President,
We, Americans, have been witnessing the horrendous genocide of the alien Israeli occupation against indigenous Muslim and Christian Palestinians while our government continues to look the other way. We have also been watching our relentless pursuit to kill endless scores of Afghani children, women, elderly, and innocent civilians. Read more
Book: Economic Integration, a Comparative Analysis
The Islamic Development Bank, and Trade Among Muslim Countries.
By
Nidal Sakr
INTRODUCTION
While development economists can not agree on a universal definition to economic development, there seems to be an agreement on at least one element in that definition. That is development is the process whereby output, or more precisely, the real per capita income is increased, provided that the number of people under poverty line does not increase and that income distribution does not become more unequal[1]. Economic development theories, and economic theories for that matter, are centered on maximizing output at the lowest costs possible. The concept of economic efficiency in production is interpreted as a relation between the physical volume of production and the cost of production. In most of the western text books, economic analysis is limited to searching on the physical variables that are related to the production process. In neoclassical economics, little or no consideration is given to the continuous interaction between economics and the society that economics is projected to deal with, especially in development. Furthermore, the issue whether economics is a strictly theoretical discipline or a human and social science that deals with the factual realities of human societies, is still debated in many western text books. The terms “normative analysis” and “positive analysis” are used in some economic dictionaries to describe this ongoing debate[2].
