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The catastrophic attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have raised several questions about Islam and militant Muslims. The chief among them are, why are some Muslims so angry at the US that they would perpetrate such an inhuman act? There are several theories being...

This article has already been published in theglobalist.com (Sept. 22nd),  Iviews, Muslim Observer (Sept 26th),  Al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon, Sept 23rd) and  The Mirror International (Sept. 25th). President Bush’s pronouncement that he would wage a crusade against terrorism has sent...

This article has already been published in the Detroit Free Press (Sept. 18th),  Iviews, Muslim Observer (Sept 19),  Al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon, Sept 19th) and  The Mirror International (Sept. 19th). Since the tragic events of September 11th members of the administration and the...

What has happened today is catastrophic. It is even bigger than pearl harbor. Words cannot describe the magnitude of the human tragedy that has taken place. The consequences of this event will be far reaching and will necessarily have global as well as local impact on Muslims. If...

Fifty-four years ago, Pakistan the first premeditated Islamic state was born with great hopes and promises; riding on the aspirations, sacrifices and the dedication of millions of Muslims from the Indian subcontinent. The idea behind Pakistan was not only to provide a homeland...

The modern Iraq was clearly the most advanced and developed of Arab societies. It matched Egypt in political and intellectual matters and with the additional help of oil resources, Iraq out stripped Egypt in matters of modernization and human resources development. The...

Megawati Sukarnoputri has finally fulfilled her destiny to return to the Presidential palace on her own right. The Indonesian Presidential palace was her home for two decades, 1945-1965, when her father also the father of Indonesian independence, was President. She sure would...

Bangladesh is an interesting puzzle. It is representative of the contemporary postmodern condition when nothing is clear-cut. It is at once both highly developed as well as underdeveloped. Bangladesh is a country that is economically backward and politically quite advanced. Many...

America’s misfortune is that in the era of globalism it has elected a President with a very narrow political vision. Bush is far out of synch from contemporary international issues and this was never more evident than in the bundle of issues he had packed in his diplomatic pouch...

On Friday a Hamas militant struck killing 21 Israelis and injuring nearly a 100 and in the process killing himself. This attack was one of several that Islamic Jihad and Hamas have launched as part of the new intifada. Yasser Arafat and the international community condemned the...