• Taliban talks in Doha drag on endlessly

    Published on : 28 02 2013

    Far from the glistening glass and burgeoning metal structures that dot the Doha skyline, the Afghan Taliban try to discreetly blend in far less pristine areas around the Qatari capital.

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  • Saying “I Don’t Know” in the Media Age

    Published on : 26 02 2013

    It has always been difficult for people to admit thet do not know something. In fact, the less secure a person is in his or her knowledge, the harder it becomes to utter these three little words. This was a trial faced by Islamic scholars of the past, and those who triumphed the easiest, were […]

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  • Rethinking Education

    Published on : 21 02 2013

    Although the Muslim world is facing many crises today, probably none has more far reaching consequences than the crisis of education.

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  • Oh Travelers to the Haram!

    Published on : 12 02 2013

    Oh guests of the Most Merciful! Oh fortunate ones! Oh travelers to the Haram! Congratulations on being invited by the Lord of the worlds! Be glad that He has invited you to His House! Not only that, but He has given you the provisions for travel and lodging. And not only that, but He has […]

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  • Why Assad will fight to the end

    Published on : 10 02 2013

    A striking fact about civil wars is that the outcome is often clear months or even years before the war ends. Jefferson Davis knew he would lose the American Civil War after the fall of Atlanta, yet continued to fight to the end. Muammar Gaddafi almost certainly knew that he would lose the war in […]

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  • Mr. Al-Maleki! Don’t follow Al-Assad

    Published on : 28 01 2013

    For the first time after peaceful demonstrations of Sunni masses and few Shiite sides in Iraq, the Iraqi army opened fire on a group of protesters on the day of “Friday of No Return” in Fallujah city.

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  • France is regurgitating its colonial past

    Published on : 24 01 2013

    The current war France is waging on Islamists in Sub-Saharan Africa is not a war of necessity. It is rather an ugly war of arrogance and aggression, bearing a conspicuous whiff of traditional colonialism.

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  • Islamophobia at the heart of a New York murder case

    Published on : 14 01 2013

    Many New Yorkers were shocked when they learned, during the holidays, that an Asian immigrant was deliberately pushed to his death in front of a subway train. Their shock turned into disgust when it turned out that the motive for the crime was ethnic hatred.

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  • Education in Sistan-Baluchistan

    Published on : 13 01 2013

    Some reports of the authorities suggest about 32% of people in south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan of Iran are completely illiterate. If we count the number of literate who got only primary or middle classes; the rate of illiteracy goes up more.

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  • The slow-motion genocide in Syria

    Published on : 12 01 2013

    Some people who believe in absolute territorial nationalism may content themselves with watching the slow-motion genocide in Syria unfold through their TV screens. They argue that what is happening in Bilad ash-sham is an internal Syrian matter and that any external interference or intervention is counterproductive and inexpedient.

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