Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor Writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. It has become a sort of mantra in the U.S. election cycle. When faced with questions of national […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com It is hard to know what to say in the wake of the terrible violence that recently engulfed Paris and Beirut. What follows is by no means an attempt […]
Source: Pew Research Center How much does politics factor into Americans’ perceptions of Muslims and Islam? A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2014 shows that people who identify as Republicans or say they lean toward the Republican Party have more negative views of Muslims than do their […]
Muslim Majority Senegal Condemns ‘Excessive’ Islam, Urges Imams To Promote ‘Tolerant’ Form By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT on November 10 2015 Senegalese followers of the Mouride sect of Islam line up to enter the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Touba, during an annual pilgrimage on March 7, 2007. Reuters/Daniel […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star The frightening rise and expansion of ISIS, which has now triggered yet another round of American-led foreign military attacks in the Levant, continues to confound many in the region and around the world. Many ask: Where did these killers come from and where do […]
It is not only Western agendas that benefit by groups like the Islamic State; Arab and regional agendas are equally served, writes Ramzy Baroud What if the so-called Islamic State (IS) didn’t exist? In order to answer this question, one has to liberate the argument from its geopolitical and ideological […]
SEPTEMBER 02, 2013 LATEST UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 02, 2013 04:15 PM Does Islam, 15 years after the fall of the New Order, remain a powerful force in Indonesian politics? It is safe to say that political Islam is weakening, but the faith itself, as it appears, still plays an influential role […]
Lisa Kaaki, ARABNEWS Islam with a 1.5 billion Muslims, constituting one-fifth of humanity, is poised to exert an enduring influence during this century. Unlike other religions, Islam does not […]
Nathan J. Brown Op-Ed July 3, 2013 New Republic The final, desperate hours of Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president ousted by the military on Wednesday, were in one sense merciful, but also pathetic. After a brief feint that called to mind the image of Salvadore Allende picking up a gun […]
JANADRIYAH: ALI BLUWI ARABNEWS Sunday 7 April 2013 A symposium was held at the Janadriyah Cultural Festival on the emergence of Islamic political movements in the last few years in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring.” A series of speakers agreed that the Arab Spring, which brought political Islam to […]
Source: The Ottawa Citizen BY FRED LITWIN AND SALIM MANSUR, OTTAWA We are daily inundated with news of horrors from the Arab-Muslim world to the extent that for many in […]
By Ali Bluwi AL ARABIYYA NEWS Saturday, 20 October 2012 I have just finished reading studies that centered on the relationship between the British intelligence (MI6) and political Islamic movements. I also had discussion with three intelligence personnel who worked for security agencies in Iraq, Sudan and the Gulf. We […]
The rulers of several major Arab nations have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of ambitions to seize power illegitimately. Several governments branded the organization a major threat to stability as the party’s influence grows steadily. After the Muslim Brotherhood legally took power in Egypt’s elections, with Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi becoming […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
Source: The Voice of Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sees nothing wrong with Islamists coming to power in some Arab countries. “Political Islam is a normal phenomenon. This does […]
By OSAMA AL SHARIF, ARABNEWS Arab Islamist movements have never been so close to grabbing power through open and democratic elections as they are today. They have already succeeded in Tunisia and Egypt. They are expected to do well in Algeria’s upcoming polls. And if elections are held in Jordan […]
By AP first published on ARAB NEWS BERLIN: Germany’s foreign minister says the West must avoid the mistake of assuming that Islamic-oriented parties aren’t compatible with freedom and modernization as […]