Debbie Almontaser was completely correct in her explanation of intifada. The Arabic word most closely sharing meanings with English uprising is thawra.
For further discussion of the criminal racist conpiracy against Almontaser's rights take a look at the articles listed in Ongoing Attempts to Control Discourse.
BTW, any article claiming that "Jews and evangelicals have made important strides in understanding each other in recent years" without discussing the money that hyperwealthy Jewish Zionist political economic oligarchs have injected into Christian Zionist organizations does not even qualify as pseudo-scholarly.
We Americans really need to start discussing whether the disproportionate representation of racist extremist Jewish Zionists in the judiciary (like Sidney Stein mentioned in the complete article below) is having a negative impact on the US legal system: Red-Herring: Resisting Islamic Law.
James Madison's "shaking off" of religious tyranny
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An explanation: The verdict in the Holy Land Foundation trial destroyed something in me. The shock was too much. A great mystery to me is how the families and friends of the defendants have managed to carry on since November 24. The community of whichShukri, Mohammad, Ghassan, Mufid, and Abdulrahmen are such an important part have always welcomed me, for which I am more grateful than I can say. But my own community was completely unavailable to me at the time of the conviction. Many Christians of Dallas seemed to be much like the Jewish temple officials in Jesus’ story about the man attacked by thieves. They could not be sullied by touching anyone unclean. It was left to a hated Samaritan to care for him. Through the ordeal of the trial and conviction, I learned a lesson I did not expect – “respectable” people do not associate with friends and families of convicted felons, no matter how unjust the convictions.
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