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DALLAS Representatives from the Muslim Legal Fund of America, a civil liberties legal fund, are deeply troubled the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to not hear the Elashi et al. v United States case that involves challenges to the Sixth Amendment right of the people to face

By Julienne Gage - WASHINGTON, DC For most Muslims, what happens to the body of a deceased person is not quite as important as what happens to that person’s soul. Still, historians of all backgrounds are scrambling to locate the body and belongings of a Muslim buried in Washington, DC nearly 200 years ago, for it touches the soul of early American history. The deceased, Yarrow Mamout, was among tens of thousands – if not millions - of Muslims brought to America during the slave trade, but one of few for which historians have much information. Historic documents suggest Yarrow may be buried on the property he purchased after gaining his independence in 1797. That land is located in Washington’s historic Georgetown neighbourhood where homes now sell for several million dollars. Its owner, real estate developer Deyi Awadallah, hopes to build and sell a new residence on the property. He knew nothing of Yarrow when he purchased the land last spring, but he’s willing to give archaeologists a chance – a few weeks or months - to investigate before he finalises his plans. “I’m trying to respect the situation. It deserves that,” he said in an interview this month. According to James H. Johnston, Yarrow was sold into slavery as a teenager in Senegal in 1752. The Washington-based lawyer and freelance writer spent eight years investigating Yarrow’s story for his 2012 book From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. “He was quite famous in his time, but (since that era), nobody had ever looked into who he was,” said Johnston. The inspiration for Johnston’s research came after he saw two portraits of Yarrow, aristocratic depictions of an African American man that dated back to the days of slavery. The more popular of the two was painted by renowned early American artist Charles William Peale, and it resides at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For Johnston, it represents dignity, perseverance, and resilience during a particularly dark chapter of American history. “People have been impressed by it because you’re looking at this beautiful portrait of a seemingly wealthy man, and yet he’d been subjected to the horrid Continued on page 5 conditions of slavery,” said Johnston.

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Historic day for Palestinians looms at UN By Tim Witcher Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas will head to the UN General Assembly on Thursday with huge backing for his bid for upgraded diplomatic status despite strong US and Israeli opposition. Abbas will ask for the Palestinians to be recognized

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MLFA Troubled by Court’s Decision to Not Hear Sixth Amendment Case remaining options and will announce a decision on how they will proceed soon. The case involves five men associated with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Muslim American charity until it was shut down on December 4, 2001, by presidential executive order and without due process. The charity’s offices were raided by federal agents, who seized all documents, assets and funds of the organization as well as personal property of employees. After prosecutors found that all funds raised by the charity went to humanitarian aid and that there were no illegal financial transactions from HLF, they employed the “material support” statute as amended by the USA Patriot Act – a statute that civil liberty advocates call dangerously vague – to charge the five men with indirectly supporting terrorism through their legal charitable work. The prosecution’s argument was that committees used to distribute aid were “under the influence” of HAMAS – despite the fact that none of the committees were on the government’s list of banned foreign organizations and were used by other charities distributing humanitarian aid in the region. The defendants faced two trials. The first ended in no convictions, but the judge ruled it a mistrial and granted prosecutors another opportunity to put the five men on trial. The second trial ended in convictions, with the key witness for the prosecution being an anonymous expert who defense attorneys were unable to adequately cross examine – a fact at odds with the Sixth Amendment. MLFA funded the defense, appeal

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Homeowners Still Waiting on Billions in Foreclosure Relief Thanks to a federal program, homeowner Pretti Hilton could be getting just what she needs to resolve her longstanding foreclosure case: a referee. Under the Independent Foreclosure Review program, eligible homeowners can request a review of their foreclosure file by a thirdparty consultant. If the independent auditor finds that the bank made errors in processing their foreclosure, the homeowner can recoup money – from $500 to as much as $125,000. For Hilton, who has been fighting foreclosure of her home for nearly four years, the program offers a ray of hope. So far, her attempts to work with her lender, Bank of America, on modifying her home loan to produce a lower monthly mortgage payment, have failed. In fact, the bank tried to auction off her property several times. If she were to lose her two-bedroom home in Moreno Valley, California, says Hilton, she and her two sons -- a 15-year-old and a disabled 27-yearold – would be on the street. “The stress is astronomical,” she says, adding that she is taking medication for hypertension, something she’d never done before. “I don’t believe I was blessed with a house in order to lose it…. I will not go down without a fight.” A home health worker, Hilton says her income took a hit with state budget cuts to programs that subsidize inhome care. When she got back on her feet, she resumed making mortgage payments, which by then included late fees. But even after paying off the late charges, she says, her bank did not lower the monthly payment back to the original amount. Because of that discrepancy and others, Hilton says she hasn’t paid her mortgage for three years, and her case is still in limbo. Then Hilton received a letter in the mail about the Independent Foreclosure Review program run by the Federal Reserve Bank and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Hilton applied for the program two months ago, and says she’s “expecting to hear something soon.” But the wait could be longer than Hilton originally expected. More than a year after its launch,

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would be halted and the bank would have to grant or deny her application, and compensate her either $2,500 or $10,000. Compensation to individual homeowners is capped at $125,000, but the total amount the banks would have to pay out to all homeowners is “unlimited,” Hubbard says. The independent review program contrasts with a parallel but separate restitution program instituted earlier this year as a result a multi-state lawsuit. The National Mortgage Settlementpromised homeowners who were financially harmed by bank errors a “one-size-fits-all” check of about $2000. It set a “low bar to get some benefit,” according to Paul Leonard, director of the Center for Responsible Lending’s California office. The compensation would shrink as more homeowners tap the fund. In contrast, the federal program, says Leonard, is a complement to that. “[It] takes a fine-tooth-comb approach to really identity specific borrowers harmed and how much harm they actually suffered,” Leonard says. Although it doles out stiffer penalties for errors, and mandates that those deficiencies in each bank’s foreclosure process be fixed, recent revelations have come to light that the independent reviews may be flawed. ProPublica revealed cozy ties between the banks and the thirdparty consultants that were hired to conduct the reviews, resulting in bank employees trying to influence the outcome of reviews. News reports also revealed that the third-party consultants are reaping record profits through their contracts with the banks. “The purpose of this [independent review process] was to remedy financial harm to borrowers; it wasn’t meant to be ‘The Consultants Full-Employment Act,’” Leonard says. “The irony is, it appears that they [the banks] are going to spend a lot more money [on] paying for the consultants…[than] providing remedies to borrowers.” He adds, “Nobody knows for sure [how much money will be paid to homeowners]. No money has been put into the pocket of borrowers yet.” With the deadline to file a request for review under the federal program looming (Dec. 31), housing counselors say more effort is needed to publicize the program to eligible homeowners. Any homeowner whose primary residence was in any stage of foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, and whose mortgage was serviced by participating loan servicers, is eligible to request a review. Maria Cabildo, president of East LA Community Corporation, says her organization has helped just a handful of people apply for the program. Unfortunately, she adds, many homeowners may have simply tossed the letter from federal regulators informing them of the program, thinking it was a scam. She says many of her clients have been inundated by mailings from mortgage scammers. Hubbard, the OCC spokesman, says

mailings about the program were sent out in English and Spanish, with a note about translation services in other languages. Cabildo says homeowners have been hearing about numerous programs meant to provide different forms of relief to homeowners, but those remedies have been slow to materialize. “It’s been disappointing. I feel that there have been tools that were created that should have worked really well,” she says, referring to HAMP (the loan modification program that formed the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s efforts to stem the foreclosure crisis). HAMP didn’t live up to its billing, says Cabildo, partly due to banking practices such as “dual-track,” which is when banks carry out foreclosure proceedings before a decision is given on a loan modification application. In the meantime, some banks have started to offer relief to homeowners, but “not the forms of assistance most of us had in mind,” says Maeve Elise Brown, who directs Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA). She says, so far, the majority of relief for homeowners under the settlement has come in the form of wiping out second mortgages (rather than offering loan modifications) that were uncollectible anyway – a move that provides little real relief to homeowners. “When I look at the universe of opportunities for assistance available to [homeowners] now, the opportunities are still a little more limited than they need to be,” she says, adding that homeowners need to be pro-active about taking advantage of all available programs. “The Independent Foreclosure Review process is a little pinpoint of light, and it could be a year before people will see any money, but it would be good for them to eventually see it.” Peggy Mears of Fontana, Calif., applied for the federal “independent review” program in April, and is still waiting to find out if she’ll receive any compensation. “We were on a so-called trial modification, which is three months [long],” Mears says. “We paid for nine months and all of a sudden we were being foreclosed upon.” Mears, who now advocates on behalf of homeowners as an organizer for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, says the bank should have stopped charging them after the third month and switched them from a trial to a permanent modification. Mears eventually struck a deal with her lender OneWest Bank (formerly IndyMac Bank) to lower her monthly mortgage payment to a level, she says, that is only “slightly lower” than what she had been paying. The long wait for resolution under the federal program is not daunting, Mears says, because after going through the lengthy and frustrating process to modify her home loan with her bank, she says “ nothing they do surprises me.”

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Dream Act or Achieve Act, which one will it be? The Dream Act lives! Or does it? Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) recently told reporters that he is working on a new version of the proposal. His plan would allow undocumented immigrants brought here as children to earn legal residency. However, there would be no guarantee of citizenship. Rubio’s plan mirrors the Achieve Act being devised by retiring Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX). Unfortunately, this may be the rare instance where it is better to “dream” than to “achieve.” The Achieve Act is an inadequate imitation of the Dream Act. It creates no sure pathway to citizenship for undocumented youth, while saddling them with additional eligibility requirements. If Republicans are serious about immigration reform, they should dump this half-baked alternative to the real deal. Let’s review a few differences between the two measures. The Dream Act would allow undocumented youth to apply for legal residency and citizenship, provided they either complete college or serve in the military. They had to have been under age 16 at the time they were brought to the U.S., and currently younger than 30. The Achieve Act limits eligibility to those who were brought before they were 14 and who are currently younger than 28. For those who qualify, citizenship “could follow.” These stricter eligibility requirements

are unfair. The last version of the Dream Act, which died in the Senate in 2010, was already watered down (in the 2009 version, the current age limit was 35). And the Achieve Act still leaves millions of young people with an uncertain future. Although they could live and work openly, the “dream” has always

that applicants have a working knowledge of English, American history, and the principles of U.S. government. How many native-born Americans could pass a test on the principles of our government? Under the Achieve Act, beneficiaries

been full citizenship. The Dream Act requires beneficiaries to pass a background check. The Achieve Act requires a background check and that beneficiaries check in every 6 months with the Department of Homeland Security. That sounds like probation, which runs counter to the intent of the Dream Act – that we should not punish children for the actions of their parents. The Achieve Act also adds a requirement

would have to wait longer to be eligible for permanent residency. Apparently, this is to appease Republican concerns about “chain migration,” whereby one person with lawful status sponsors other family members to come to the U.S. You know, like Marco Rubio’s aunt did for his parents in 1956. One practical result of the Achieve Act is that we would have a long-term, growing class of “in-between” residents, who were neither illegal

Contiued from p.1 Yarrow was well known in the Georgetown community. He was a body servant for Samuel Beall and his son Brooke, two influential professionals who regularly rubbed shoulders with the likes of founding US President George Washington. He was often remembered as cheerful, diligent and very devout in his faith, stopping to pray five times a day wherever he was. Yarrow was also an entrepreneur who could read and write. In Georgetown, slaves were allowed to have their own side businesses, so Yarrow became a brick maker. In fact, he won his freedom by building a home for his masters and saved his money to build his own house. These details make Yarrow a “major footnote” in history, says Amir Muhammad, director of Washington’s Islamic Heritage Museum. “It shows people that Muslim Americans are a part of the American fabric. He’s a real personality, not only in paintings but in his works and deeds,” he said. For Washington DC’s official archaeologist Ruth Trocolli, any archaeological traces of Yarrow help the public to better understand how slaves, especially Muslim ones, may have lived. “That’s a parallel source of data on Yarrow that we can’t access any other way,” said Trocolli, who began a reconnaissance mission on the property this week.

But the recovery effort is challenging. A few years ago, archaeologists discovered a small cemetery with the graves of five African Americans from that era on land bordering the back of Yarrow’s land, but none of the bodies matched the description of an elderly Yarrow. Yarrow’s house was demolished more than a century ago and the one now sitting on that property is due to be demolished because it is structurally unsound. A swimming pool in the back yard inhibits some opportunities for excavation. But Trocolli is hopeful the exposed parts of the Yarrow property might contain original features such as a well, a latrine, a cellar, or Yarrow’s grave. “Yarrow’s story is significant,” said Trocolli. “It’s a story about a person who persevered. He was a slave who essentially bought his own freedom.” Awadallah admits he has a much greater interest in the business of real estate than in historic properties, but as a Muslim American of Palestinian descent, he acknowledges the reconnaissance process is serendipitous. “I knew there were African Slaves that were Muslims I just didn’t know they were this close to home – just five miles from my home in Falls Church, Virginia,” he said.

nor full citizens. Consider that 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school each year. True, Rubio’s version of the Dream Act is not final. His spokesman told the Tampa Bay Times that he “is still developing his legislation and hasn’t made any decisions on when to introduce it.” Still, the fact that he is floating an alternative to the Dream Act should be a call to action. The Democrats won the election, and with it the right to set the original Dream Act as the starting point for our immigration debate. A majority of Americans favor a path to citizenship for the undocumented; the Achieve Act does not deliver this. The Achieve Act is a misguided compromise that is unlikely to please either immigration restrictionists or immigrant advocates. It is narrow, punitive, and imposes needless hurdles on beneficiaries. The Dream Act remains the best way to help undocumented youth fulfill their potential in the only country they call home.

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Researchers Challenge ‘Idea of Intelligence’ in the Classroom For low-income and minority middle school students across America the message is, all too often, “you can’t.” It’s reinforced in the classroom, in the media, among peers, and it’s also the message from education statistics: high school dropout rates are uneven by district, college grades remain stubbornly unequal. But researchers from Stanford are aiming to turn that message on its head by borrowing from an oftheard expression: when you think you can, you can. In pairs of short, 25-minute sessions, or “interventions,” participating students learn that their brain is “like a muscle” -- it can get stronger the harder it trains. They begin with a quick survey, move on to an activity, and end with a writing exercise. In that process students hear stories from upperclassmen that started out with lower grades and fewer friends, only to turn things around. Or they write about their own personal values -- what they take pride in, inside and out of school. In each case, students finish with the same task: write a summary for a fellow peer. Teachers, meanwhile, are told to present this as a routine exercise, as opposed to an actual intervention. Studies show students respond more positively when they believe they are helping other students instead of being helped themselves. “[Our research] shows how much

ability and potential is lying there latent in the kid that’s not being tapped,” says Geoffrey Cohen, who along with Carol Dweck and Greg Walton forms part of the team behind Stanford’s Project for Education Research That Scales, or PERTS. “All of these interventions show how resilient and how much the children have learned in spite of the adversity they face,” Cohen adds. Indeed, changing poor-performing students’ ideas and feelings about intelligence and belonging, they say, can have a dramatic impact on performance, both in and out of school. PERTS researchers say their interventions can help reduce the achievement gap for poor and minority middle school students by up to 30 percent, and cut college GPA disparities in half over two to three years. The team is now looking to expand their research by bringing these interventions to middle school, high school, and community college classrooms nationwide. Last school year, PERTS reached 5000 students; this year, 3,500 plus and counting; in future years it hopes to expand those numbers to hundreds of thousands. To do that, PERTS set up online. Web-based, the program is a largely automated system, letting teachers run the interventions in class themselves without researchers on-site. Middle school through college classes enroll on PERTS’s website, where teachers download

instructions and activities. PERTS researchers and staff provide teachers support, and results, by phone as needed. Jan Kaay is superintendent of Luther Burbank School District, located in San Jose. The district was one of the first to incorporate PERTS interventions in its middle schools, where nearly 100 percent of students qualify for free or reduced meals. Kaay, who says she’s seen some improvement in grades, explains that one of her hopes for the program is to help students with their “emotional growth.” Which speaks to the program’s approach, says Walton, who teaches psychology at Stanford. He stresses that each intervention aims to address the psychological needs of an individual students’ classroom experience, whether it’s teaching them they can up their smarts or helping them dismiss concerns over ethnic or gender stereotypes. “If the kids’ ears aren’t open to the lesson they’re receiving, it doesn’t matter how good the lesson plan is,” he adds. Similar ideas have come and gone since the 1970s, but it’s only in more recent years that they have begun to make their way out of smaller study settings and into classrooms at large. Former Department of Public Welfare Secretary and early education policy expert Harriet Dichter says

one reason for that has to do with Americans’ tendency to look for what she calls “silver bullets”: simple, often singular solutions to complex problems (standardized testing, anyone?). Such attitudes make advocating for a piece of a bigger puzzle difficult. “We often see people ‘pitting’ solutions against one another,” Dichter notes. Still, both Cohen and Walton acknowledge their interventions are not cure-alls, but more like “the third leg,” alongside curriculum and teaching, “upon which education rests.” Cohen, who says expansion -- from controlled experiments to larger, school district settings -- has been the major obstacle to implementing earlier educational interventions, says PERTS is reinforcing strategies that have already proven effective. “I think what we’re doing is bottling what exceptional teachers already know.” But how can such a brief intervention have such a lasting impact years later? “It’s not really a brief intervention,” insists Cohen. “From the kid’s perspective it’s a big impactful experience to be assured that intelligence is malleable … It’s a powerful message. It’s brief but it’s continually relived, that message.”

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Why Arizona Is a Red State Among a Sea of Blue States On Election Day, Arizona remained a red state -- electing Sheriff Joe Arpaio to a sixth term in office, Republican Jeff Flake to the U.S. Senate, and voting for Mitt Romney for president -while its neighbors, Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado, went blue for President Obama. According to political pundits, the reason those states voted Democrat this year was because of their fastgrowing Latino populations. If having a large Latino population was all a state needed to turn blue, then Arizona, which is almost one-third Latino, should have been blue, too. But it wasn’t. Why not? To understand why those states are blue, visualize a pyramid. At the base of the pyramid is history. History provides a story. Many New Mexicans, for example, can trace their roots to Spanish settlers who settled the land well before New Mexico became part of the United States. Latinos in Colorado and California can do the same. This history supplies a narrative for politicians seeking public office. When Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006, he frequently recounted how he could trace his

family history back to the people who originally settled Colorado. His message connected with his fellow Coloradans, who could place themselves in a similar historical context. People who run for public office in these

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states insert themselves into their states’ existing narratives, and voters project their own similar story onto the candidate. Political movements grow from and organize around a shared history, which erects the next stage of the pyramid: political infrastructure. Latino and

infrastructure to harness this changing demographic, which later helped to elect scores of Latino candidates and turned the state blue. For the past 10 years, U.S. Senator Harry Reid and the Culinary Workers Union assembled a political infrastructure that harnessed Nevada’s growing Latino population and got him reelected in 2010, despite a strong challenge from a Tea Party candidate. Political infrastructure informs messaging and media, the next level of the pyramid. Before this election cycle, New Mexico experimented with messaging and figured out how to reach its diverse Latino population. They created messages that moved beyond “Sí, se puede” (Yes, we can) and which appealed to first-generation Latinos as well as to sixth-generation Latinos, resulting in greater voter turnout. New Mexicans, in other words, did not treat Latinos as a static or homogenous group, and took steps to ensure their message appealed across generational lines. At the top of the pyramid is the elected official. This is the least important part of the pyramid because having a durable pyramid makes it easy to seamlessly change from leader to leader. This explains why New Mexico remains blue even though Democratic Latino Governor Bill Richardson was replaced by Susana Martinez, a Republican Latina governor. Arizona’s pyramid lacks these

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Time for UK government to do what is morally right The Muslim Council calls on our Government and the international community to ascribe the Palestinians their basic human rights and not delay the UN membership of Palestine. An opinion poll conducted by Avaaz, one of the world’s biggest campaigning organizations, showed that 72% of the UK public want a Palestinian state and a petition launched by them has so far been signed by over 1.6 million people and increases by the minute. Farooq Murad, Secretary General of the MCB said: “The events we have witnessed over the last few days in Israel and Gaza points to the fact that now, more so than ever, there is an urgent need for Palestine to be recognized as an independent state. The news report that our government is imposing condition that for such UK support

the Palestinian state must pledge not to pursue Israel for war crimes is plainly shameful and will be rejected by all fair minded British citizens”. President Barack Obama, in his speech in Cairo in 2009, insisted: “Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel’s right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine’s.” It is high time now for these words to be put into action. “We have seen too many lives being lost, too many conflicts and too many innocent people suffering. Both Palestine and Israel have the right to live without fear, have rights to live life in peace and prosper as a nation. Only when Palestine takes its place as a sovereign member of the international community, lasting peace in the region will prevail” said Farooq Murad.

Historic day for Palestinians looms at UN as a UN «non-member observer state» and lay out his conditions for talks with Israel in a key speech to the 193-member assembly, set to convene at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT). The Palestinians say 132 countries recognize their state bilaterally, but some of those are expected to abstain while many European nations are expected to vote in favor even though they have not recognized a Palestinian state. Thursday›s motion requires a simple majority of those members present and voting in order to pass, and the bid is widely expected to be approved. The Palestinian leadership is determined to make the 65th anniversary of the UN resolution that divided the British-run Palestine mandate into two entities a «historic» landmark in their quest for an independent state. The United States, a staunch ally of Israel, has launched an aggressive campaign against the bid, warning

that the vote will do nothing to improve the prospects for new peace talks aimed at ending the decades-long conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the UN decision «won›t change anything on the ground,» adding: «It won›t promote the creation of a Palestinian state, it will distance it.» US officials met with Abbas at his New York hotel on Wednesday but failed to convince the Palestinians to withdraw or amend the resolution. «It would be like changing my name,» Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki told reporters when asked if the wording would be changed. Abbas also held talks with a host of ministers and top diplomats in the day before his speech, including Turkey›s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who pledged his country›s support, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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Canada has said it will join the United States in opposing the resolution. Only one European country, the Czech Republic, is expected to vote against the resolution, with Germany saying on Thursday that it would abstain. Britain announced it would also abstain unless the Palestinians pledged not to seek an International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Israel and promised an immediate return to negotiations with the Jewish state. The recent Israeli military onslaught against rocket attacks from Gaza could increase support for the Palestinians, diplomats said. But several European countries, including some backing the bid, believe the Palestinians should have waited until after US President Barack Obama installed his new administration and Israel held elections, diplomats said. The foreign ministers of Canada, Turkey, Jordan and Indonesia are also scheduled to speak at the General Assembly meeting starting at 2000 GMT. Success will give the Palestinians access to UN agencies and treaties and allow them to apply to join the ICC -- a prospect that worries Israel. Senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi said Abbas resisted «intensive pressure» to make concessions on the ICC. Palestinian envoys have said Abbas will not rush to join the court but could use it if Israel does not change its policies on settlements and other matters. The United States blocked the application for full membership

of the United Nations that Abbas made in September 2011. The United States and Israel say a Palestinian state can only emerge from direct negotiations, which have been frozen since September 2010. «We have made very clear to the Palestinian leadership that we oppose Palestinian efforts to upgrade their status at the UN outside of the framework» of talks with Israel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. The Palestinian Authority and UN agencies that admit the Palestinians could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in financing because of the vote. US law prohibits funding for any international body recognizing a Palestinian state. Washington has warned Abbas he risks losing around $200 million in aid, which is currently blocked in the US Congress. Israel is considering freezing the transfer of tax and customs funds it collects for the Palestinians, while one Israeli foreign ministry policy paper even suggested «toppling» the Palestinian Authority. But ministry spokeswoman Ilana Stein said Israel would most likely not take any punitive measures unless the Palestinians used the upgrade «as a platform for confrontation» at the ICC. «Israel›s reaction to the Palestinian move depends on what they choose to do. If they use this resolution as a platform for confrontation, we will have to act accordingly,» Stein said.

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Respect Respect- has been defined as the condition of being honored esteemed or well regarded. (Oxford) This is the most commonly understood definition of respect. In fact, the thesaurus goes on the describe respect as a courteous regard for people’s feelings and links respect to honor, kindness, obedience and tolerance. So what is the role of respect in Islam? Islam states that it is the responsibility of each individual to treat all of creation with respect, honor and dignity. The most deserving of respect is the Creator Himself. Respect begins with loving and obeying the commandments of God and from this respect flow all the manners and high standards of morality that are inherent in Islam. “And whosoever obeys God and His Messenger, fears God, and keeps his duty (to Him), such are the successful ones.” (Quran 24:52) To be one of those who are successful, Islam requires that each individual learn to obey the Creator and thus treat humankind, our environment, the believers and ourselves with respect. Bearing in mind that the believers are one nation, and if one part of the nation is in peril so too are all its parts, respect for each other is essential. Islam teaches us that we are held accountable not only for our thoughts and actions but for the influence, we have over others and the creation. Islam asks us to enjoin the good and forbid the evil. Islam binds respect to peace, love and compassion, all attributes of the One God, therefore to fulfill our obligation to honor and obey God one must respect the honor, reputation and privacy of others. Respect involves staying completely away from the major sins of backbiting, lying, slander, and gossip. Respect for humanity means staying away from sins that will sow discord among the people and lead to destruction. Respect includes loving for our brothers and sisters what we love for ourselves. Respect involves treating others the way we expect to be treated and the way we hope God will treat us –with compassion, love and mercy. Major sins put a barrier between humanity and God’s Mercy and cause all the torment, misery and evil in this world and the hereafter. God commands us to stay away from sin and to strive against our own destructive character flaws. He also singles out suspicion, backbiting and gossip as bringing about nothing but shame and disgrace. “O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion, indeed some suspicions are sins. And spy not, neither

backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear God. Verily, God is the One Who accepts repentance, Most Merciful.” (Quran 49:12) Respect alternatively can be defined as a positive feeling of esteem for a person or entity.(Webster) It denotes the regard and consideration shown by an individual towards others. There have been various philosophical works done in the past that try to define ‘respect’ comprehensively. The most substantial work has been done by Immanuel Kant. He stated that every individual deserves respect because he is an end in himself. Though, his theory is questioned, criticized or inferred in many ways, yet it is one of the significant works. It is hard to clearly demarcate the outline and definition of respect. But it is a feeling that can be mutually understood and felt. Respect cannot be demanded, it is an asset that has to be earned. From the very childhood kids are taught to respect their parents, elders, teachers and an unending list of social obligations. But an ambiguity arises when the teachings do no match the practical experiences. Children find it hard to respect certain persons or the same person in differing situations, viz. If a parent generally behaves positively with the children, it is normal for the child to reciprocate and show the same behavior. But the anomaly arises when a parent confront or scold the child to make him understand a certain thing. The child wants to reciprocate his behavior but the parent defies his behavior and tells the child to respect him. Here the respect is tried to be imposed and not earned. This is a contradiction to respect. Nobody can earn respect by suppression or by flaunting power. It is a deliberate action that cannot be forced upon others. There is an individualistic form of respect also, which is well known as self-respect. If an individual cannot respect himself, he cannot respect any other person. A feeling of worth and rational judgment gives rise to self-respect. Self-respect is an essential component for the prosperity of any individual. A person with low selfrespect may act as a timid. On the other hand, self-respect does not violate the individuality or respect of others. A clear distinction occurs between self-respect and ego. Self-respect is recognition of

intrinsic worth. A person works to protect and preserve his selfrespect. On the other hand, ego can be defined as forceful or aggressive imposition of one’s thoughts or judgments over the others. Hence respect can be called as a behavioral component. A person inadvertently judges the other on the basis of the expressed behavior and qualities possessed by him.

Every person has his own standards of judging people. Yet, there are certain set of qualities that are common and popular to gain respect in the society, viz. An individual who possess high moral values and shows compassion and solidarity towards other human beings is respected by a large section of society. Then there are other traits like general behavior, reaction, response and a personal growth etc.

To be one of those who are successful, Islam requires that each individual learn to obey the Creator and thus treat humankind, our environment, the believers and ourselves with respect. Respect is also an expression of accepting a certain trait or set of traits demonstrated by that person. The qualities or traits that we appreciate, we tend to respect those who own them. So, respecting a person or not comes naturally.

All these factors contribute to effectively comprehend the term ‘respect’. It is a natural response or reaction towards an individual. To earn respect is a matter of individualistic integrity and rational behavior.

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Time to End NYPD’s Racial Profiling In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) conducts indiscriminate and highly intrusive surveillance of Arab American businesses, mosques, coffee shops, and civic associations. In Brownsville and East New York, the NYPD stops, interrogates, and frisks a startlingly disproportionate number of innocent young Black and Latino men for nothing more than walking to the subway, going to school, or leaving for work. While these police policies affect different communities, they share the same basic problems. They are both based on illegal racial and religious profiling; they both don’t work; and they both destroy critical trust between the police and the people they are sworn to protect. New legislation pending before the City Council would go a long way toward addressing these abuses, increasing oversight, and restoring public confidence in policing. As directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Arab American Association of New York, we recognize the common marks of discriminatory policing. The methods may be different, but the idea is the same. Rather than policing based on evidence of criminal activity, the NYPD policing is based on ethnicity and religion. The NYPD justifies its stop-and-frisk policy by pointing to higher crime rates in certain precincts. It contends that “leads” drive its

surveillance of American Muslims. But the reality is that these programs disproportionately impact members of Black, Latino, and Arab American communities without any reason to

suspect they are involved in criminal activity. Such profiling violates our constitutional rights as well as state and federal laws. Moreover, the NYPD has very little to show for it. With respect to Muslim surveillance, Assistant Chief Thomas Galati recently testified that the NYPD’s mapping program has not produced a single lead in at least six years. With respect to stop-and-frisk, statistics show that the NYPD stops innocent people nearly 88 percent of the time, neither arresting them nor issuing a summons. Even stops that lead to arrest appear to be suspect.

After discovering that many people arrested on trespass charges in public housing were actually innocent, the Bronx District Attorney has declined to prosecute such cases without first

interviewing the officer involved to ensure the arrest was warranted. Not only are the NYPD’s policies illegal and ineffective, but they also damage public trust in the police. Public trust is essential to public safety, from solving crimes to preventing terrorism. But by singling out communities for scrutiny based on color or creed, it stigmatizes and alienates them, creating a rift between the police and the people they are supposed to protect. It is not a crime to be Black. It is not a crime to be Latino. It is not a crime to be Muslim. Residents of this city, of every color and religion, should feel

protected – not threatened, harassed, or intimidated – by their police department. The NYPD must work with these communities to rebuild the trust it has so irresponsibly destroyed. It is time to end illegal profiling in New York City and seek to prevent such abuses from occurring again. The City Council is now considering legislation, known as the Community Safety Act, which would represent a big step in this direction. In particular, the Act calls for the creation of an Inspector General to help oversee the NYPD. An NYPD Inspector General would provide the transparency needed for the Mayor and City Council to better exercise their oversight responsibilities and increase public confidence in policing. It would also have the mandate, expertise, and perspective to protect civil liberties as the NYPD works to keep New Yorkers safe. And it would be a mechanism to promote reform from within while keeping the public informed. As two young leaders from two different communities, it is critical that we speak with once voice to denounce discriminatory policing in all of its pernicious incarnations. It is also imperative that we act together in support of desperately needed reform and oversight. That is why we believe it is imperative to pass the Community Safety Act and create an NYPD Inspector General.

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