Category: Contributors
The Tragedy of Iran
The Tragedy of Iran From a Glorious Empire to an Orwellian State….What Went Wrong? The Islamic Republic of Iran today is governed by a rigid majlis of mullahs who spend hours debating such engrossing topics as whether it is halal for women to wear blue jeans, or if dogs desecrate a Muslim’s household. They break [...]
What Salman Taseer’s Assassination Means for the Future of Pakistan and a Moderate Islam
What Salman Taseer’s Assassination Means for the Future of Pakistan and a Moderate Islam Source: NewsGramThe assassination on 4th January of Salman Taseer, the secular governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has been overshadowed in western media by the attempted murder of U.S. Congress member Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, four days later. The violent incidents [...]
Jordanian Police Atrocities Against Palestinians, a Message to Israel?
Jordanian Police Atrocities Against Palestinians,a Message to Israel? With the advent of the new batch of Wikileaks classified documents, came a cable issued by the U.S. Embassy in Amman that reported “bullying” practiced by the fans of al-Faisali Soccer Club (predominantly East-Bank Jordanians) against the fans of al-Wihdat Soccer Club representing enthusiasts of Palestinian origin. [...]
A Letter From the Grave, David Ben-Gurion Calling on Benjamin Netanyahu
Background: In a time of distorted efforts for peace with an unclear vision in sight, a Palestinian writer, Mudar Zahran, tries to envision conventional wisdom by impersonating a man who was involved in Arab Israeli conflict right from the beginning. This is a letter Zahran has imagined Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, would write [...]
Israel, The Good Enemy
Israel, The Good Enemy Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians has always been globally approached with standardized heavy criticism made to Israel. The main charges waved in Israel’s face have always been “the Disapropriate use of force” and “discrimination”. Israel’s critics, either willingly or out of ignorance, choose to overlook the way many Arab countries [...]
Nine Years Later, America Remains Divided
Nine Years Later, America Remains Divided By Salim Mansur Originally written for the Toronto Sun The ninth anniversary of 9/11 this year coincides with the mounting controversy over the propriety of building the Ground Zero mosque in New York City. As Americans pause to remember the nearly 3,000 of their fellow citizens killed by [...]
Is there a “Muslim World”?
Is there a “Muslim World”? Editor’s Note: Having recently been asked to consult the “Muslim World” before petitioning for outside help to form The Center for the Reformation of Islam, guest writer Robert Short shared a few thoughts on the idea of a “Muslim World”. While the individual with the suggestion meant to ill-will, Short’s [...]
Which Muslims do We listen to: The Case for Reformists and Why Ground Zero’s Imam Rauf Doesn’t Fit the Bill
Which Muslims do We Listen to? The Case for Reformists and Why Ground Zero’s Imam Rauf Doesn’t Fit the Bill In the wake of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, there has been an outpouring of emotion, not so much regarding the lives lost on that frightful day, but rather about the tolerance, or lack thereof, [...]
The Pyramid of Thought
The Pyramid of Thought I think of thought as a pyramid. At the top of the thought pyramid is Concepts such as Truth, Freedom, Equality, Peace, Justice, Love. Below the Concepts are Issues such as Freedom of Speech, civil Rights, Foreign and Economic Policy. At the bottom of the pyramid are Details. Many, many details [...]
Stephen Hawking’s “The Grand Design”
Move Over God, Here Comes Science… In His New Book, The Grand Design, Acclaimed Scientist Stephen Hawking Shifts Away from His Earlier Theory on the Nature of the Universe Move over Biblical interpretation of origin of world; bye Darwin’s concept; The Quranic and Vedic theories are also seemingly not acceptable. The Big Bang theory is [...]
