Pakistan 1973 Constitution is not Islamic
March 05, 2014 - (0) commentsKasim Javed In light of the discernible defeat of the US in Afghanistan, the US has changed the style it is using to achieve its regional objectives in Central Asia from military occupation to diplomacy with its enemy. Earlier this […]
Azzam Tamimi and the Mirage of Democracy: A Quest towards Subversion
February 14, 2014 - (0) commentsAli Harfouch If there is one thing we can learn from Azzam Tamimi’s article ‘The Quest for Democracy in the Arab World is an Islamic Cause ’ it is that the continuity of colonization in the Muslim world is primarily […]
The British Government “Extremism” Agenda
December 06, 2013 - 1 CommentAdnan Khan On the 3rd December 2013, Jeremy Paxman began the BBC news affairs programme, Newsnight, by questioning whether society was beginning to display signs of a new strand of ‘McCarthyism’. He was, of course, referring to the saga involving […]
The Political impact of the Ottoman Caliphate (The Ottoman Caliphate (4/4))
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