Feature / Analysis

In Afghanistan, Scandal Erupts Over Changing Street Name To Honor Iranians

MAZAR-I SHARIF, Afghanistan: Provincial officials in northern Afghanistan have asked the central government in Kabul to decide whether a street in Mazar-e Sharif should be named after a group of Iranian diplomats killed there in 1998. The move, announced in a statement by the Administrative Counci...

Olympic medal helps unify torn Afghanistan

The Afghan taekwondo master Rohullah Nikpah won his second consecutive bronze medal at the Olympics. The country's six athletes received a warm welcome home on Tuesday from cheering crowds. Crowds went wild in Kabul's Ghazi Stadium. Where once the Taliban used to carry out public executions, peopl...

Sympathy And Support For American Sikhs From A Muslim Living Close To The Wisconsin Sikh Gurdwara Attacked By A White Supremacist Recently

Assalam u Alaikum w Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu wa Ramadan Mubarak,Yesterday, Sunday Aug. 5, 2012 a man named Wade Michael Page (or several men) entered a Sikh temple and killed 6 people and others are hospitalized in critical condition. This is my local community, I live minutes away from their Templ...

Egypt’s Islamist President vs. Military: Washington-Riyadh Subverting Arab Masses Revolt

"The Brothers are officially in power," declared the independent newspaper al-Watan, while the independent al-Masri al-Yom said, "Mursi grabs all the powers."In a tug of war between Egypt’s powerful and entrenched but secular military establishment and its largest political formation, the Muslim Br...

Made At Tahrir, Sealed In Sinai

MILITARY EXIT: There was immense pressure on President Morsi by Tahrir Square activists to act against SCAF and the incident in the Sinai Peninsula gave him an opportunity to get rid of the generals.Until a few days ago, the Egyptian military looked invincible but the balance of power now seems to h...

Outbreak of Violence in Mumbai – Assam and Burma Killing Of Muslims

The way things were happening for last few weeks it was not surprising that violence on such scale took place. It was, as if, in store, large scale propaganda was going on that Muslims are being killed all over the world. There is conspiracy to kill Muslims everywhere and on Bodo-Muslim clashes and ...

Dealing with Inherited Prejudice

Ethnic prejudice, or what we in India term as ‘communalism’, is probably almost as old as humanity itself. It lies at the root of most of the conflicts that have wrecked humankind since the very beginning of history, and even now, too. I don’t suppose more than just a few individuals are entirely fr...

Why We Become Terrorists… And How We Can Be Stopped

A crucial reason why communicators of peace find it difficult to have greater impact is that the content of their communication is not “fear-mongering”, identified by Hovland as being the most persuasive. This problem can be overcome if they present terrorism not simply as a misinterpretation of Isl...

America's Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes

The situation in Syria continues to spiral out of control. Bashar al-Assad's forces, including tanks and helicopter gunships, supported by Russia and Iran, are currently amassed around the city of Aleppo, where Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels have fought an eleven-day offensive leading 200,000 civilia...

Guardian Angels in Afghanistan

The Pentagon's attempt to reduce the growing trend of "green on blue" violence. An increase in Afghan security forces attacking their NATO counterparts -- or what have been called "green on blue" incidents -- is prompting the U.S. military to implement a host of new safeguards, top Pentagon officia...

Why isn't anyone talking about Afghanistan?

Remember the war in Afghanistan? You know: It was the "good war," fought in response to Al Qaeda's attack on 9/11 and the Taliban's refusal to turn them in, and subsequently justified by 1) the need to prevent future terrorist "safe havens," 2) the desire to liberate Afghan women, 3) the imperative ...

Is the Taliban wearing out its welcome in Afghanistan?

Tuesday marked the most violent day in Afghanistan this year, while Afghans are starting to show that they're tired of violence and fed up with the Taliban. Kandahar and Ghazni, Afghanistan - After US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly walked off a US base in Kandahar last March and went house ...

Activists warn of risk of disastrous oil spill in Russian Arctic

Environmentalists warned Tuesday that drilling for oil in the Arctic could put Russian protected land at risk of being polluted by an oil spill before federal emergency crews could reach the remote area.Their warnings were backed up by an analysis from a Russian think tank, commissioned by Greenpeac...

Have Obama and Romney Forgotten Afghanistan?

How’s this for a conspiracy of silence? With less than three months to go until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have successfully avoided saying almost anything about America’s war in Afghanistan. Remember that war? You will at some point, however little the two candidates talk ...

Afghan girls inspired to maintain exercise

KABUL:"By attending the London Olympics I have given the message to all the Afghan girls that they are talented, they can do sport, they can attend international competitions and above all they can earn honor to their country," Tahmina Kohistani told Xinhua on Tuesday. The only Afghan girl, Kohist...

Afghanistan unites behind Olympic success – and beating Pakistan

Rohullah Nikpai's taekwondo bronze, Afghanistan's second ever medal, helped country to feel normal after years of war Kabul: For once, Afghanistan was just another country. Used to being treated as victim or headache on the international stage, its athletes lined up at the Olympics to compete as eq...

Defense feared links with Afghan warlord would erode support for forces

SENIOR Defense Department officials feared the WikiLeaks exposé of secret US military reports would undermine public support for the Australian Defense Force in Afghanistan, according to newly released briefing papers. Reports about a corrupt Afghan warlord who works closely with Australian Specia...

Key Officials Under Karzai Are Criticized

KABUL, Afghanistan: The chief of Afghanistan’s antigraft commission has called for the country’s finance minister to step aside while he is being investigated in connection with corruption allegations, even as the minister appealed to his Western backers for support. The back and forth is just one...

Electricity demand falling in Australia

MARK COLVIN: A new report shows demand for new electricity generation in Australia is slowing down. Across the country the demand for new baseload power generators has been pushed back by around four years. What's more, that baseload power is being increasingly supplied by renewables like wind and...

Oneness of God

Every living thing in this world has some basic characteristics, which distinguish it from others. This is as true of individuals as of groups of people and their religions and philosophers. It is, therefore, appropriate that we try to find out the distinctive characteristics of Islam and acquire co...

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