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Banned Under Bush, Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan Returns to US

Ramadan says he was kept out because of "The fact that I was very critical about the US's foreign policy." Critics claimed he donated to a Hamas-linked charity, and those

Muslim scholar, Ramadan gives his first lecture since US ban

“Jihad Within Young Hearts: Toward a Positive Engagement." is the title of Tarek Ramadan's lecture to be delivered on Sunday in Livonia. Ramadan is considered to be one of the

Internet Freedom or Colonization?

Technology has always played an important role in the success of imperialism.

US–Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

US Ambassador Christopher Hill’s warning on February 18 that it could take months to form a new government in Baghdad after the Iraqi elections, scheduled for March 7, and that

Islam’s European Reformation?

Ramadan wrote What I Believe as “a work of clarification.” In it, he emphasizes that his goal is to fashion a distinctively “Western” expression of Islam that does not require

Obama Administration Unsupportive of Middle East Democracy?

Steven Stanek and Matt Bradley, in an article for The National, comment on the Obama Administration’s committment to democratic reform in the Middle East.Stanek and Bradley compare former President Bush’s

A Bad Spell of Big Power Behavior

The worst moment of the week was the sight of the snake-like Tony Blair once again showing us how otherwise intelligent, articulate leaders can also comfortably splash around in the

The Supreme Court’s Partisanship

Over the past several decades, the American Right has assembled such an array of political weaponry – ranging from a vast propaganda apparatus that defines 'reality' for tens of millions

The Kidnapping of Haiti

-- The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea

A Debate Worth Noting

The significance of the Congressional debate may have been ignored given what appeared to be the lopsided vote in favor of the anti-Goldstone resolution, says James Zogby.