War & Beyond in Iraq

• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count - Breakdown of US, British and Iraqi deaths, from public sources
• AFSC on Iraq - American Friends Service Committee website on Iraq Concerns
  • AFSC Statement Urging Immediate Withdrawal
  • Questions and Answers about AFSC’s Position
  • Christmas Has the Taste of Ashes for Us - New Correspondence Journal
  • Iraq Peace Petition
• Baghdad Burning - Weblog ("blog") of a young Iraqi woman who posts almost daily updates, for a powerful firsthand witness to the experience of her people
• "Blind into Baghdad" - Exposé by James Fallows in The Atlantic (Jan/Feb 2004)
• FCNL on Iraq - Friends Committee on National Legislation: action items, statements, background &: analysis

Palestine and Israel

• The Nameless to the Nameless - Humboldt Quakers and the prisoners of Guantanemo
• Palestine Israel Action Group - Ann Arbor Quakers promoting peace in Israel Palestine
  • PIAG's blog and their INFO-MAPS showing the decline in Palestinian-controlled land
• AFSC on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - American Friends Service Committee

Islam

• "Islam's Long War Within" - Reza Aslan, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005
• Violence and Crisis in Islam - Krista Tippett's interview with practicing Muslim and leading scholar of Islamic studies, Vincent Cornell, on her public radio show, Speaking of Faith, where he paints a bleak picture of chaos and drift within Islam which may presage renewal or the continued decay of the religion he loves.
Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani - Site of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani, leader of Shiite Muslims in Iraq
• Islam: A Short History , by Karen Armstrong - Very readable summary, from 7th century Muhammad to the present, which includes: the origins of the Shii/Sunni Muslim rivalry; the growth and decline of the Islamic empire and its essential contributions to Western science and theology; and the origins and impact of modern revolutionary Islam. Disabuses us of our myth about Islam as authoritarian, fundamentalist and fanatical.
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Grassroots civil rights organization which welcomes people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities, with chapters in Orlando and Miami
• Council on American- Islamic Relations - Grassroots organization dedicated to presenting an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public, and to empowering the Muslim community through political and social activism (Florida Chapter)