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Lesson from acquittal of Babri-masjid-demolition accused
All the 32 accused, including LK Advani, in the Babri Masjid demolition case have been acquitted by the special CBI court in Lucknow on...
A Middle Eastern Westphalia
This book, Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East, is a product of many conferences and seminars between government officials, policy wonks, academics, international...
Why Human Rights Abuses Threaten Regional and Global Security
Human rights scholars (Brysk, 2009, Mullerson 1997, Chirot and McCauley 2010) argue that discrimination against people on the basis of their religious beliefs, ethnicity,...
From Intellectual Powerhouse to Playing Second Fiddle
A multi-ethnic, multi-religious culture built Spain into an intellectual powerhouse so much so that after the reconquesta scholars from various parts of Europe flocked there to...
Freedom of religion in the African Human Rights System
Apart from the Mainstream religious beliefs such as Islam and Christianity, Africa is also the home of different indigenous religious beliefs most of which...
How modernity and globalization influenced the message and expansion of Islam
Islam – societal and cultural changes
In order to understand how cultural and societal changes influence any religion, we must first know the definition of...
UAE Recognition of Israel Dents Emirati Religious Soft Power
The United Arab Emirates’ bold recognition of Israel, earning it valuable brownie points in the West, has come at a cost: a blow to...
Architecture Reflecting Culture: The Alhambra
Throughout history civilizations have been overtaken by successors. These in turn decline and fall as time marches on. Often all that remain are monuments,...
Islam, Science and Time: Is science compatible with religion?
Logically, time is present at every particle as a moment and eventually the very same moment is present at the whole, limitless space like...
Christian’s Miserable plight in Pakistan
Let’s start with the speech of Quaid-i-Azam of 11th August 1947, just 3 days before the inception of Pakistan. He stated, “You are free;...