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By Zainab Cheema With the recent US-Pakistan brouhaha, which erupted when a two-hour NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the northern tribal areas on 11-26-2011, the US audibly wondered if Pakistan had been pushed too far. Mass rallies broke o...
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By Khadijah Ali With his December 12 outburst against niqab, Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney confirmed that the rightwing government he serves is rabidly Islamophobic. This is not the first time Kenney and other members of the Conservative gov...
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By Zainab Cheema In the post-9/11 theatrics of George W. Bush, one of the more memorable is his explanation for why the dastardly terrorists chose to attack the glorious symbols of US power: “They hate us for our freedoms,” or in another version, “...
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By our Caucasus correspondentRussia’s grip on the North Caucasus is becoming more complicated and therefore, loosening up as a consequence of recent developments. Never a stable region because of ethnic rivalries and stirrings of revolt by the people to...
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By Tahir MustafaWho says the Americans hate all the Haqqanis? Take the case of Husain Haqqani, the recently disgraced Pakistani ambassador to Washington, who was such a darling of the Washington neocons that he was publicly feted as a close ally. Ordinari...
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By Waseem Shehzad Pakistan’s relations with the US have never been easy but recent developments have brought them to such a point that even the polite and usually soft-spoken Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was forced to concede: “we do no...
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By Zia Sarhadi Pakistan’s boycott of the December 5 US-sponsored conference on Afghanis-tan in Bonn, Germany reduced it to little more than a farce. It was like a wedding without the groom. Pakistan boycotted to protest the November 26 US-NATO attack o...
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By Yusuf Dhia-Allah Ultimately, even the great rhetorical skills of Barack Obama could not hide the fact that the US military had been defeated in Iraq. American troops sneaked out of the country into Kuwait on December 15, a full two weeks ahead of the ...
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By Tahir Mustafa It is now well established that foreign powers are deeply involved in destabilizing the regime of Bashar al-Asad in Syria. Such interference is not confined merely to anti-regime propaganda, although it plays a significant role by presen...
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By Ayman Ahmed Exactly a year after peoples’ uprisings shook the Muslim East (Middle East) driving three dictators from power, considerable uncertainty still prevails. Elections have been held in Tunisia (October 23), Morocco (November 25) and Egypt (N...
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By Zafar Bangash The degeneration of Muslim societies has gone so far that nothing is considered sacred any more, not even the honour of Muslim women. On December 17, when six soldiers attacked and wrestled a young girl to the ground in Cairo, ripping he...
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By Seyfeddin Kara One of the most striking events in post-Revolutionary Iranian history unfolded in early December 2011 when Iranian state TV showed a captured RQ-170 Sentinel, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the US for spying. It is one of the...
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Iqbal Siddiqui, Perspectives For many Muslims and Islamic activists around the world, in so many different places and fields of work, the unity of the Ummah is a basic premise of everything we do. At the same time, differences of understanding, approach ...
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Abu DharrThe world is babbling with news about Iran being on the threshold of going nuclear, in a military sense. Israeli words are coming out of American mouths. US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CBS news that Iran could build a nuclear bomb in a...
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Like a scorpion, the US has a peculiar way of showing gratitude. This was evident yet again on November 26 when US-NATO troops attacked two clearly marked Pakistani border posts killing 24 soldiers including two officers and wounding 28 others. Since the ...
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American hubris is predicated primarily on its claim to technological superiority. This is best reflected in the radar-evading stealth technology used in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) called drones. To be sure, these are deadly weapons. Ask the Pakistan...
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Zafar Bangash, ReflectionsGiven that there are 56 “Muslim” nation-states, all members of the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Conference, the question may raise some eyebrows. Each country also has defined borders, a government headed by...
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From the Editor’s desk...As newsmagazine of the Islamic movement, we tend not to pay much attention to local stories. Given the number of important events occurring globally, local issues get crowded out. But we are making an exception in a case that ha...
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US-Zionist animosity toward Islamic IranYour Scandalous anti-Iran allegations by US fail to stick (Crescent, Nov. 2011) article was informative. In his October 3 interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, President Ahmedinejad treated the alleged plot against...
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Iraq War veteran, Ross Caputi, writes about his thoughts on the role of veterans in the Occupy movement. The author is a Marine Corps veteran of the second siege of Fallujah and a member of March Forward! He is the founder of the Justice for Fallujah Proj...
