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A bout of Amnesia
04th March 2006
Condeleeza Rice last year cancelled a visit to Egypt due to the ill treatment of Ayman Nour; the Egyptian liberal activist. Ayman Nour had been detained by the Egyptian regime on what were classed as criminal charges (in reality political motivation was more of a reason than any form of criminality).
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Ports, UAE and The Addiction to Foreign Dependence
22nd February 2006
Of course there is a double standard; of course there are inconsistencies; of course there is hypocrisy. This is a War on Terror guys not a boy scouts field trip to plant trees.
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America and political Islam
Abid Mustafa
17th February 2006
Hamas’s win has once again propelled political Islam to the centre of America’s war on terror. However, Hamas’s victory is not the first for Islamists. Throughout much of the Middle East, Islamists have made unprecedented gains via the ballot box and marginalized their opponents—the modernists whose raison d'etre is to secularise Islam.
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Cartoons, Voltaire and the Non-Clash of Civilisations
Sajjad Khan
15th February 2006
Who said politics was boring, as Mark Warner the former Governor of Virginia said recently that politics was not a battle between right and left, or between conservative and liberal but between the past and the future. In the battle of ideas around the cartoons controversy, the Muslims are advocating the future whereas the west remains wedded to the past.
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Principles, Hamas and the politics of expediency
Sajjad Khan
27th January 2006
Reading all the diatribes from Washington, London and other EU capitals after Hamas’s crushing victory has got me thinking. How do they do it keeping a straight face? Do what, you ask, how do they actually maintain a straight face while consistently contravening their very own principles.
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