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 No one could have imagined that an ordinary passenger ship would have such a dramatic impact on Middle East politics. Until it became the leading ship of the aid flotilla aiming to break the hermetical blockade of Gaza, the Mavi Marmara operated in the serene waters of the Bosporus. |  The Americans are caught, literally, between and a rock and a hard place in Afghanistan. The mountainous country has one of the toughest people on earth that have never allowed foreigners to dominate them. They may be primitive, perhaps too primitive, but they simply will not tolerate foreigners even if the general leading the army |
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Allah (Â) says in the Qur’an, “[Since they have become oblivious of their Lord], disintegration has appeared on land and in the sea as an outcome of what men’s hands have wrought; and so He will let them taste [the end result of] some of their doings, so that they might return [to conformity with their Lord]” (30:41). Nothing exemplifies this more aptly than the explosion of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico |  For three days (June 25–27), Toronto was turned into an armed camp. An estimated 15,000 police and other forces were mobilized to provide security for leaders of G20 countries to talk about the world’s economic problems. | |
| Opinion | ||||
| Reflections by Zafar Bangash | Guest Editorial by Abu Dharr | Perspectives by Iqbal Siddiqui | ||
| The new, emerging global order | Is Turkey the Trojan Horse, or is it the Saudi Islamists? | Understanding the scope and depth of work of the Islamic movement | ||
| The flotilla of humanitarian aid sponsored by the government of Turkey was attacked in international waters by Israeli pirates equipped with the latest technology Washington can offer to its sea wolf client in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. This lowdown Israeli crime on the | The key objectives of the Islamic movement are the reassertion of Islamic values in Muslim societies, and the establishment of Islamic states in place of the corrupt, self-serving regimes that currently predominate in the Muslim world. Achieving these broad objectives | ||
| News and Analysis | |||
| For families of the genocide victims in Srebrenica, the news could not have come at a more appropriate time. Preparing for the 15th anniversary of the July 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague handed down two rare genocide convictions on June 10 together with five other convictions in the nearly four-year long trial. |  Islamic Iran’s options in dealing with Russia Russia’s support for the latest round of US-engineered sanctions, passed on June 9 against Islamic Iran at the UN Security Council, can be seen as a blessing in disguise for Tehran. Russia’s subordination to the strategic goals of the US, which is | Long live Gitmo, and indefinite detention without trial Remember Barack Obama’s bold pronouncement on the day of his inauguration that he would | Seeking a solution to the Karabakh conflict in the Sirah  The May 23 Parliamentary elections in occupied Karabakh showed that the regime in Azerbaijan has no leverage to influence the socio-political process there. An illegitimate yet competitive and lively electoral campaign among Armenian nationalist groups in Karabakh undermined the sham policies of President Ilham Aliyev of |
