In Our Opinion
In Our Opinion
Drifting backward, repeating America’s shameful history
June 29th, 20180 Tuesday, June 26, 2018 will be remembered as a shameful day in the history of the United States of America. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump's executive order banning citizens of Muslim-majority nations from entering the country. The decision fulfilled a campaign promise by then-candidate Donald Trump. No one can spin...
This time, Nikki Haley spits on the entire world
June 25th, 20180 The Trump administration withdrew from the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday, condemning the “hypocrisy” of its 47 member states and its alleged "unrelenting bias" against Israel. Trump’s ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, traveled to Washington to make the announcement alongside Trump’s top diplomat and former chief...
While tragedy engulf homelands this Eid, there are things to celebrate here
June 19th, 20180 As the Arab and Muslim worlds were ending a month of blessed fasting, observing the most holy month in Islam and getting ready to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, there isn’t much to celebrate there— a region engulfed in bloodshed and complicated conflicts among brothers and neighbors. In Gaza, a real massacre engulfing the besieged Strip...
America spits on the graves of Palestinians dying for freedom
May 18th, 20180 The actions of the Trump administration concerning the Palestinian people have become more shameful by the day. In December, President Trump announced his intention to fulfill his ill-guided campaign promise to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, gifting Israel a de facto recognition of the Holy City as its capital. Not only did...
Will the decent Republicans stand up?
April 27th, 20180 State Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-Canton), a Republican candidate for governor, is spreading his hateful rhetoric to hide his lack of leadership and the fact that his campaign is bankrupt in both ideas and dollars. Earlier this month the trailing Republican gubernatorial candidate, who is known for his racist and White Supremacist ideas,...
The push for war against Syria united politicians on both sides of the aisle
April 13th, 20180 The chemical attack video: We've seen this movie before Democrats and Republicans alike— on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Congress, in the liberal and conservative mainstream media, in our intelligence services and in basically every think tank in Washington— have suddenly aligned on a single point of agreement; America must...
What are our true priorities?
April 6th, 20180 There are many times we need to ask ourselves, what are our true priorities? A couple of weeks ago, thanks to social media, and fake news, we were all made aware of a suspicious flyer that supposedly originated somewhere in the United Kingdom, but no one was able to determine who was behind it. The “Punish a Muslim Day”...
Now that the court has spoken, it’s time to move on
March 9th, 20180 Now is the right time for Hussein Berry and others to reconsider what they have done, to recognize the damage their actions have caused and to join the healing efforts that this community badly needs. On Monday, a Wayne County Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit against the Dearborn School District, the Dearborn Board of Education...
America mourns, prays and does nothing to address gun violence
February 16th, 20180 The thunderous hail of bullets is always followed by the silence of a nation that cannot bring itself to do anything besides offer ineffective hopes and prayers. Once again, a place for education and advancement has become a scene of horror and fear in America. It is unacceptable that any American should have to endure the terror and...
The danger facing Lebanon is bigger than Bassil’s loose tongue
February 2nd, 20180 In the last decisive moments, Lebanon avoided the edge of a cliff and perhaps saved fragile peaceful coexistence among its people, which for the past few days has been hovering over that fine edge. A telephone call from President Michel Aoun to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was enough to defuse a potential civil war that would have...
Trump’s Jerusalem decision is reckless and dangerous
December 8th, 20170 President Trump's decision this week to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital was reckless, misguided and dangerous. He has legitimized the illegal occupation of East Jerusalem. Let us not forget that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, along with the occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem, have been condemned by numerous...
Trump unfit to be our leader
December 2nd, 20170 This week, President Trump proved once again, in perhaps the strongest terms to date, that he is unfit to be our leader. The president re-tweeted three misleading anti-Muslim videos, causing a major firestorm in the media. The videos were first tweeted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of an anti-Islam British party named "Britain...
Hariri’s return marks a new era for him and Lebanon
November 23rd, 20170 Saudi Arabia added this week another political downfall to its long list of successive defeats in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Qatar and Palestine. The last blunder of the immature Saudi Crown Prince was holding the Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad al-Hariri hostage and forcing him to abruptly resign from a discreet place in his fumbling kingdom,...
Reasons to be thankful
November 23rd, 20170 As Arab American and Muslim families gather around the dinner table this Thanksgiving holiday, they will show gratitude for their blessings, but will also be bound to express fear for each other’s safety. Since President Trump’s candidacy and after his election, the country has been deeply inflamed with hate crimes, racism and...
Let’s talk about “Corruption”
November 13th, 20170 In recent weeks and as we drew closer to Election Day, the word “corruption” was and continues to be thrown around and leveled at organizations by members of the community. More specifically, a local candidate has repeatedly accused AAPAC of being corrupt. The dictionary defines corrupt as “guilty of dishonest practices, as......
After the election: Bullying, sectarianism must be addressed for us to move forward
November 10th, 20170 With all the effort our officials, campaigners, volunteers and local organizations have expanded every year to raise awareness on the importance of voting, it appeared that people were slightly more engaged as they voted in the general elections last Tuesday, November 7. Thankfully, Arab American voters came out and made a strong...
Our endorsements for the Nov. 7 general elections
November 3rd, 20171 The November 7 general election is only a few days away and our endorsements have only marginally changed since the primary. When we released our primary endorsements, we said we’d revisit the candidates during the general elections. We chose to rescind our endorsement for Dearborn City Council candidate Sean Green due to his...
Lessons learned from the Fordson Incident
October 27th, 20170 The Fordson High School football team caused an uproar after making headlines two weeks ago when a few of its junior varsity players were busted in an alleged hazing scandal that some students argue was a sexual assault. The administration called it a “rogue hazing” incident and Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko confirmed that it...
There are more reasons to stay in Dearborn than to leave
October 13th, 20171 Arab Americans have been moving out of Dearborn in droves in recent years to nearby cities like Dearborn Heights, Northville, Bloomfield Hills, Livonia or townships like Canton. Dearborn is the eighth largest city in the state. They may have their reasons for leaving, but we believe Dearborn offers more reasons for them to stay and build......
Terrorism apparently foreign to White America’s lone wolves
October 6th, 20170 On Sunday night, Oct. 1, a White terrorist named Stephen Paddock, sadly not branded as such by the president, police or media outlets, shot more than 500 people and killed 59 at a country music concert from his 32nd floor suite of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. According to police, Paddock, 64, had 23 guns in his hotel...
At 33, we are growing stronger
September 15th, 20170 On September 7, 1984, The Arab American News was established to purely tell Arab Americans' and the Arab world's untold stories, but instantly developed into something more— an unexpected educational center for thousands to learn what they'd been denied access to elsewhere. Our mission has been and will continue to be to provide a......
Hussein Berry’s lies and destructive behavior could ruin the school district
September 14th, 20171 Last Monday’s meeting of the Dearborn Board of Education necessitated careful attention and study as the issue of overcrowding is still at the forefront and the future of our kids and two important institutions— Fordson and Dearborn High Schools— is at stake. After much evaluation and dialogue on the issue as well as other...
The genocide of Rohingya Muslims must mobilize and unite humanity
September 8th, 20170 The genocide of the Rohingya Muslims became a major global focus this week and yet no official outcry against their massacre or for immediate aid was made. Making headlines should raise awareness about the crisis— immediately outraging humanity as a call for action— not silencing and immobilizing it. According to an op-ed......
