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Article was featured in San Francisco Examiner (Nov 11, 2002), Detroit News (November 26, 2002) and the Muslim Observer. The tragedy of September 11 has now become an opportunity for political entrepreneurship. More and more people are using it to advance sectarian interests that...

Article was featured in San Francisco Examiner (Dec 23, 2002) and Foreign Policy in Focus (November 19, 2002) and Moving Ideas Network (November 27, 2002).    The ideological orientation of the world is undergoing a slow but definite shift to the right. Compare recent elections...

Answers to Questions posed by Discourse Magazine (October 2002) (1) What is post-modernism? Does it have a universal definition? A question asking for any definition that is universal implies the existence of an essential quality that transcends local context. This would...

A year has passed since the attacks on the WTC. Most pundits argued that the tragic event was a global watershed – it would change America and the world. It is time to sit back from the politics and policy wrangling to assess if indeed the world has changed in any significant...

The drum beats for the war against Iraq are getting louder everyday. It is becoming apparent that Washington is getting ready to take some kind of military action against Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein from power. President Bush’s desire for a change of regime in Baghdad and its...

President Bush, whose administration at first refused to take any active part in the Middle East process has now, committed itself to peace in the Middle East through the creation of Palestinian State. This is unprecedented. No American President has ever made such a serious and...

This article was published in The Globalist, Dawn (Pakistan), Foreign Policy in Focus (US), Scoop (New Zealand) and the Muslim Observer India is playing a highly risky game of brinkmanship in Kashmir. Its recent deployment of forces along the line of control (LoC), the de facto...

On mother’s day, the Likud party overwhelmingly rejected the idea of a Palestinian state in complete defiance of the position advanced by President Bush who sees the establishment of a Palestinian State as the only solution to resolving the Middle East conflict. It is also a key...

The shadow of 9/11 and the various crises such as Enron and the Middle East that have followed it have obscured an important aspect of the contemporary American condition. America today is experiencing a crisis of integrity. The common denominator that links the Enron fiasco, the...

On March 21st, over 150 federal agents raided the offices of several prominent Muslim organizations and the homes of some of the most respected members of the American Muslim community, located in Northern Virginia. For over twenty years, the Muslim leadership associated with the...