“Who speaks for Islam?”
Research conducted by Gallup showed that Bush was not telling the truth and on the contrary, Muslims admire for the freedom and technological developments of the Western World. Public opinion...
View ArticleAn Abortive Initiation: A Necessary Engagement
After the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York city, the radical posture adopted by American administrators towards the Muslim world was the beginning of a too tiresome, frustrating and...
View ArticleDancing on the Heads of Snakes
Yemen, your desert is made of sand What did you want from my son? I don’t know your way or your sign I am just missing my son O Yemen damned Yemen… This Turkish folk-song cited from journalist Victoria...
View ArticleSectarianism in Iraq: Why do they clash?
22-year-old Sunni Iraqi boy facing me was telling that the real perpetrator of the sectarian violence in Iraq were Shias because their clerics were encouraging and invoking them to kill at least one...
View ArticleThe Wrethched of the Earth
With NATO air support the insurgents in Libya has toppled the Gaddafi regime and Gaddafi’s whereabouts is unknown for now (31 August 2011) but it has been reported that Gaddafi’s family (wife, daughter...
View ArticleIslamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Friend and Enemy
Andrew Shryock, editor of this volume of nine articles, says that Islamophobia can be a very nebulous term. And he defines it roughly as a blanket fear or dislike of Muslims. “Some people treat it as...
View ArticleA Closer Look at the Country of Major Uprisings: EGYPT
What happened to the so-called Arab spring which was cheered so enthusiastically at the outset by the western public opinion and western elites? Well, it is now anything but a spring. It is sad that...
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