Islamist Movements and the Political Challenge: An Alternate Perspective

While on a recent visit to Delhi, I chanced upon an Urdu book whose title, Tehrik-i-Islami Ko Darpesh Siyasi Challenge (’The Political Challenges Before the Islamic Movement’, immediately attracted my

Judges’ Club Threatens More Measures Unless New Financial Cadre Endorsed

The Judges’ Club is preparing for a new battle for improving judges’ salaries and for endorsing a new financial cadre (degree), especially as prices are uncontrollably sky-rocketing in the current

Judges’ Club Threatens More Measures Unless New Financial Cadre Endorsed

The Judges’ Club is preparing for a new battle for improving judges’ salaries and for endorsing a new financial cadre (degree), especially as prices are uncontrollably sky-rocketing in the current

Islamist Movements and the Political Challenge: An Alternate Perspective

While on a recent visit to Delhi, I chanced upon an Urdu book whose title, Tehrik-i-Islami Ko Darpesh Siyasi Challenge (’The Political Challenges Before the Islamic Movement’, immediately attracted my

Islamic Fascists?

In just the past few months there has been a rash of articles and blog entries that bring up and expand upon the sad fact that Amin el-Husseini, the Mufti

Islam, Violence and Non Violence

The dramatic turn of contemporary world events which continue to unfold on a daily basis: -the collapse of the Oslo Peace process in September of 2000 in the face of

Islam and the Question of Violence

Despite the presence of violence in many regions of the world ranging from Ireland to Lebanon to the Pacific Basin and involving many religions from Christianity to Hinduism, the Western

Non Violence, Violence, Peace, Justice and Change in Islam

That change is necessary in the Muslim World, both political and socio-cultural, is an eminently uncontested feeling. The issue that public intellectuals and policy makers must contemplate is whether this

Alternatives to Violence in Muslim History: Parallels to American Cases

We examine four examples of alternatives to violence in Muslim history: the unauthorized pilgrimage to Makkah that led to the treaty of Hudaibiyya, Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s role in the Indian

IOF troops shoot resistance activists, leave them bleed to death

IOF troops ambushed three Palestinian resistance activists affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad Movement, at dawn Monday in Qabatia village, south of Jenin, and left