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New Caliphate New Era

Minorities - Challenging Existing Conventions

Caliphate & the Myth of Violence

Elections Signal the Desire for Islam - Summer 2006: Issue 06

Battle of Ideas
Winter 2005 / 2006: Issue 05

New Caliphate New Era
Autumn 2005: Issue 04

Secular Democracy: On the Retreat
Summer 2005: Issue 03

Why should Iran disarm?
Spring 2005: Issue 02 -

Redefining the Globalisation Debate
Autumn 2004: Issue 01
  
Borders in the Muslim world: mere lines in the sand


11th February 2008

Lines in Middle Eastern sand, drawn by civil servants in Whitehall, can not wipe out Islam’s Golden Age. People who talk about uniting the Muslim Ummah are often derided as ideologues; impractical and unrealistic. However, all it took was a few sticks of dynamite to remove the ramshackle physical barrier – officially known as the border - between Palestinian Gaza and Egypt. The subsequent free flow of people and goods – only inhibited by the size of the gap in the broken boarder - exemplified how simple, realistic and natural the concept of one Muslim Ummah really is – if the political will exists!



Turkey - Kemalism: Outdated and Irrelevant


06th September 2007

The July elections in Turkey have clearly demonstrated once again, Turkey’s sham political system which many western politicians and commentators continually promote as the ideal model for the Muslim world. The crisis in Turkey concerning the presidency and the role of Islam in politics represents the trend in the Muslim world as a whole.



Maryland Poll and Changing Political Trends in the Muslim World


06th September 2007

A number of striking findings came in an underreported poll published in April 2007. The poll, commissioned by the University of Maryland confirms previous research on the subject http://www.css-jordan.org



Are Muslims becoming more ‘radical’?

Akmal Asghar


12th February 2007

Scrutiny of the Muslim community, these days, is unrelenting. From bringing the Met into disrepute by discouraging female officers from shaking hands with male colleagues, teaching firebrand radicalism to five year olds, destroying Britain’s social harmony to refusing dogs in their taxis, Muslims now routinely find themselves in the firing line of the country’s media machine and most prominent politicians.



Saddam’s humiliating end: A wake-up call to Muslim leaders


12th January 2007

Arif Samad, 12 January 2007

The military occupation of the Muslim world continues unabated with the US’s aerial bombardment of alleged Al-Qadea operatives in southern Somalia. The order to bomb had apparently been given by the new Somalian leadership imposed upon the Somalian people by an Ethiopian invasion force, supported by the US, which routed Islamists from the Union of Islamic Courts who had brought order, security and stability to the war-torn country. The new Somalian leadership puts back in power the warlords that had plagued the strategically important country for decades.



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