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Caught in geopolitical crossfire: Al-Azhar struggles to balance politics and tradition
When Pope Francis I visited
Egypt in 2017 to stimulate inter-faith dialogue he walked into a
religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was...
How Muslim caste-structure in India has impeded their economic progress?
Modi 2.0 slogan `sab ka vishwas’
(all inclusive) caricatures ongoing persecution of the Muslim in India. In
post-election India, the Muslim is being `lynched, shot at...
Clerics and entertainment seek to bolster MbS’s grip on power
A public apology by a prominent Salafi scholar sheds a light on Saudi crown prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s version of ‘moderate Islam,’ his effort to...
Saudi religious moderation: How real is it?
Meet
Mohammed bin Abdul-Karim Al-Issa, the public face of Saudi crown prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s version of moderate Islam.
A 54-year
old former justice minister, Mr. Al-Issa, one...
Terrorism and Mass Media: A Reflection from the Sri Lanka Terror Attack
The world
shivers at the mention of terrorism. The international news storylines mostly
present two hegemonic undertakings: the economic and power game ruling blocks
comprising US, Russia,...
Will Islamophobes take over democracies in the West?
One is alarmed to see how Islamophobes have
begun to dominate secular forces in `civilized’ western democracies. During the
2008 American presidential election `several Republican politicians...
New Era of Pakistan- Malaysia relations
Malaysia and Pakistan enjoys very cordial relations. Both are
Muslim states and developing countries. Both are facing similar issues like
corruption. There exist many areas where...
The battle for leadership of the Muslim world: Turkey plants its flag in Christchurch
When Turkish
vice-president Fuat Oktay and foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became this
weekend the first high-level
foreign government delegation to travel
to Christchurch they were doing more
than expressing...
Hindu jihad (holy war): India Pakistan context
There is a
deluge of malevolent propaganda concerning Islamic Jihad. But, the Hindu
kinds of holy yuddha (crusades) are rarely focused.
Islamic jihad
The
non-Muslim writers not only...
Iranians and Iraqis are inseparable
The two nations of Iran and Iraq are bonded together
by geography and more importantly religion, especially in the form of Shia
Islam.
The religious bonds that...