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Maha Hilal

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San Diego Mosque Shooting Follows Decades of State-Enabled Anti-Muslim Violence

San Diego Mosque Shooting Follows Decades of State-Enabled Anti-Muslim Violence

Seeking safety from state institutions that enact anti-Muslim violence is a contradictory strategy.

09.06.2026 8

Truthout

Maha Hilal

How to Defeat a Lawless and Murderous Trump Regime

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

07.03.2026 10

Common Dreams

Maha Hilal

Trump’s Lawlessness Joins Strategic Use of Law to Create a Facade of Legitimacy

“Emergency laws” create legal frameworks and blueprints that only strengthen the ability of the state to enact violence.

05.03.2026 9

Truthout

Maha Hilal

The Legal System Is Not Reining in Trump. It’s Letting Him Bend Law to His Will.

The US legal system has proved insufficient to protect human and civil rights in the face of Trump’s attacks.

05.01.2026 40

Truthout

Maha Hilal

US Mourns the Victims of 9/11, But What of the Victims of the “War on Terror”?

Twenty-four years into the global “war on terror,” we need rituals of public mourning to acknowledge its many victims.

11.09.2025 10

Truthout

Maha Hilal