Most Bizarre Conspiracy Theories Across The World
Fake news, conspiracy theories and alternate truth are easy to take roots nowadays thanks to development in modes of communications and social media. The…
With Trump’s Empty Afghan Strategy, Up to India & Pak to Play Nice
US engagement in Afghanistan, in its 16th year now, has been complicated by the involvement of regional powers. Donald Trump’s so-called Afghanistan strategy suffers…
Book review: A psycho-social perspective on terror
The launch of Dr Unaiza Niaz’s excellent book in September was most symbolic, as the world commemorated the ghastly incident of 9/11 and the…
Some sobering lessons
By Raza Rumi: Adecade after the ghastly attacks on the Twin Towers, the world has not changed. It is business as usual: imperial projects,…
Afghanistan: Where’s the exit strategy?
The Afghan imbroglio has now come to haunt the region and perhaps the globe as well. Thirty years of destruction and violence have left…
Muslimness – shifting boundaries
Muslimness is an elusive state of being. There are watertight strictures of the theological identity defined by men, interpreted as the Sharia, on the…
9 Is Not 11
I am completely under the spell of this fabulous piece of writing, brutally honest and eminently sensible. 9 Is Not 11 (And November isn’t…
Rethinking Islam and Hinduism
S Irfan Habib in New Delhi There has been a lot of noise about rethinking in Islam, particularly post September 11,2001. I feel it…
Muslims in Germany” study: State-propagated racism under the guise of science
Muslims in Germany are completely alienated politically and also have to cope with a racist witch-hunt, which has increased continually ever since the September…
Fukuyama defends his Neocon legacy…
This is a good review of After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama. Khaled Ahmed, one of my favourite writers makes…