Editor's Desk
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A Muslim initiative on Palestine is long overdue. So far, the Muslims have been mainly responding to the initiatives of the others. This has put them on a receiving end leaving little room for them to envision a future beyond the initiatives laid down by their opponents. Now after half a century of unmindful military adventures it has become clear to the thinking minds in Israel that a third word war is no solution to…
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Leaders
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Victims of Holocaust Denial: Jews, Muslims – and Human Dignity
The Islamic Republic of Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently hosted a conference of historical revisionists dubbed as “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision.” It was neither global nor visionary.…
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Why is the west listening to Hirsi Ali?
Recently, a review of Hirsi Ali’s book Infidel in The Economist (‘A critic of Islam’, 8 February) described her as a “chameleon of a woman”, who has been “happy to…
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The Greening of the World’s Religions
As reported last year in the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment, we humans are destroying the life-support systems of the planet at an alarming rate. The data keep pouring in that we…
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Insight
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Internal Struggle For Power – The Sunnis Versus Shi’as
The fight between Shi’as and Sunnis has assumed dangerous proportions in Islamic world in general and in Iraq, in particular. And this despite the rhetoric of ummah wahidah (one community…
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Rationalism In Islam
Piety of soul, purity of heart and intention and the sincerity of comprehension are recognized as the essential of truth by eminent scientist and enlightened intellectuals. Rationalism is the philosophical…
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God’s Chosen Peoples
The popular Norwegian writer, Jostein Gaader, in his article of August 5th in the Aftenposten, “God’s Chosen People” asserts that Israel is history, meaning that it has no future. Such…
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Foresight And Connecting The Dots: The politics of worldviews and disowned selves/collectivities
FORESIGHT For the foresight practitioner, what is most stunning about the war in Iraq, the recent war in Lebanon and the war on terror is the lack of capacity of…
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Books Review
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CHANGING GODS: RETHINKING CONVERSION IN INDIA
Conversion is a highly sensitive act in today’s communally charged atmosphere. Conversion is being declared a sort of offense now in many states if one converts to any other than…
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