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Interesting look at democracyYour analysis of democracy was interesting and helpful (Crescent, April 2010). There is much confusion among Muslims about the true nature of democracy and while your coverage did not cover all possible angles, it provided eno...
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By Yusuf Dhia-Allah Like him or not, there is one personality in Iraq who cannot be ignored: Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr. The Iraqi political elites deliberately shun him; instead they have willingly fallen into the trap set by the US occupation forces euphemi...
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By Fahad Ansari On May 3, 2007, just days before her 4th birthday, British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal. Over subsequent months, the case received international med...
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By Zainab Cheema As the mainstream media remains absorbed by circus politics, reports from other meeting rooms are forecasting a sea-change in world affairs. A cynic might query, “In the age of multiple crises like super volcanoes, mass poverty, ceasele...
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By our correspondent in Paris Most people in the West are obsessed with three things: money, sex and alcohol, not necessarily in that order. Under the rubric of freedom, women are paraded, virtually naked, in what is referred to as beauty contests. Cattle...
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By Seyfeddin Kara “You killers don’t come near me… go to hell all of you…” the strident curses of Nefize echoed among the poverty stricken houses of Trosheva, when I visited them on November 11, 2009. Nefize, the grandmother of Atahacoba famil...
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By Fahad Ansari in London Voting and electoral participation has always been a controversial topic among Muslims in Britain with an increasing number of Muslims now adopting the position that voting is not haram, with some even going so far as considering...
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By Zia Sarhadi Afghan President Hamid Karzai may be an American puppet but he is no fool. He knows that US-NATO troops are on their way out and the sooner he mends fences with the Taliban the greater his chances of physical survival. Staying in power afte...
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By Maksud Djavadov Professor Hamid Algar, the highly respected academic, states in his book, Roots of the Islamic Revolution, that the Caucasus was the center of revolutionary thought and activities at the beginning of the 20th century. The continuing inv...
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By Zainab Cheema Going by contemporary cultural practices, the extinction of a species merits some kind of memorial. Let me specify that by species, I mean in this case a social identity that has been banished to the past tense. After Israel’s April 201...
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By Zafar Bangash In its long tortuous history, Europe has spawned many demonic ideologies — colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, Fascism, Nazism and Zionism, to name just a few — but while most others have been repudiated, at least theoretically, Zi...
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Iqbal Siddiqui, PerspectivesBritain goes to the polls on May 6, to elect the government that is expected to run the country for the next five years. Unlike most elections in recent years, the contest is genuinely too close for the results to be predicted;...
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Abu Dharr The Obama Yahudi administration is clandestinely working with its political blood-brothers, the Saudi custodians of imperialist and Zionist interests in the Islamic East. It is accelerating arms sales and quickly fortifying defenses for oil fiel...
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Politicians in the West love to play wedge politics. Picking on the weakest members of society is their favourite ploy but the recent hysteria about niqab — the full facial and body covering, except an opening for the eyes, worn by some Muslim women —...
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Long before the Zionist entity was planted in the heartland of Islam, like a dagger thrust into its heart, turmoil had erupted in the Middle East. This land, once a solid bloc under Ottoman rule, was parcelled into nation-states to serve British and Frenc...
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Zafar Bangash, ReflectionsInternational conferences are useful only if they are guided by honesty and transparency. Two conferences last month on nuclear policy and weapons revealed the contrasting attitude of the US and Iran. The Washing-ton conference (...
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From the Editor’s desk...In this issue, we take a closer look at Zionist mythology and the true nature of the Zionist State. Several myths have been peddled to camouflage the real character of the colonial settler entity. Wrapped in the messianic notion...
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Quebec makes Islamophobia officialQuebec, the only French province in Canada, has given racism and Islamo-phobia official sanction. On March 24, the Quebec National Assembly passed a bill mandating Muslim women to remove their face and head covering befor...
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By Zainab Cheema “India is an idea whose time has come,” declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently. The lofty statement, tailor-made for diplomatic conference rooms, suggests that India has emerged as a mature democracy and major nation s...
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By Quraysha Ismail Sooliman in Pretoria In the search for excellence, we often forget the basics because excellence is a prevailing attitude, not an exception. Parents have the most daunting task of all; they are entrusted with the future of their child...
