Borrowed from The Guardian Amid the daily din of Donald Trump’s White House comes Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff’s tell-all, just in time for the first anniversary of the Trump inaugural. Like the “burn book” in the movie Mean Girls, Fire and Fury contains a toxic tale that singes all. In Wolff’s telling, Trump World is...
November 26, 2025
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‘I, Neocon’ – the Foreign Policy of Emperor Trump
Not many observers believe that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will survive as the most-neutered US Secretary of State since the days when Richard Nixon’s national security adviser Henry Kissinger called the shots on foreign policy to the chagrin of Secretary of State William Rogers. Rather than lead like a constitutionally-mandated president, Donald Trump...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
‘They came to kill’: Palestinian village grieves for 16-year-old Musaab al-Tamimi
Borrowed from Middle East Eye While international attention has focused on the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian 16-year-old girl arrested for slapping an Israeli soldier, another branch of the Tamimi family on Thursday buried their own child. On Wednesday, Musaab al-Tamimi, also 16, was shot in the neck during clashes with Israeli soldiers as...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, World
Turkey Is Undergoing A Radical Shift, From Pluralism To Islamic Populism
A year ago, on the evening of a failed coup attempt against the government of Turkey, I was celebrating a family wedding in a posh restaurant on the Bosporus in Istanbul. I was at a table with the grandfather of the young bride ― my uncle, who is a law professor and prominent representative of...
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January 5, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column, World
The Geopolitics of the Beijing-Moscow Consensus
Borrowed from THE DIPLOMAT In the late 1950s the deterioration of Sino-Russian relations paved the way for the historic meeting between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong in 1972. The offspring of that meeting was the Shanghai Communiqué, and the onset of the Sino-American détente on one side and that Soviet containment in the...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column, World
Trump Nuking North Korea Would “Make America Great Again”?
Written by : Andrew KORYBKO, a political commentator, and specialist in global politics If Trump is willing to accept the enormous loss of American life — which are the only people that he cares about as the US President — then turning the Korean Peninsula into Asia’s nuclear panhandle would indeed “Make America Great Again”...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Muslim World, Opinion, Special Column
Iran declares victory against anti-government protesters following week of unrest that left 21 dead
Borrowed from The Independent There are concerns that interference by the Trump administration may exacerbate political and economic situations in the future. Huge counter-demonstrations have taken place against the protests in Iran with the head of the Revolutionary Guards declaring victory against “forces of sedition” which had sought to create “anarchy, insecurity and intrigue in the...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
WELL DONE BY THE OPPOSITION IN THE RAJYA SABHA
By: M. Burhanuddin Qasmi If the opposition could do in the LokSabha what it did today in the RajyaSabha, the AntiTalaqBill would have been disposed off altogether today. What Mr Gulam Nabi Azad spoke in his PC today in Delhi is yet not enough. He has been putting the basis of his argument on the...
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January 4, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Why Triple Talaq Bill is faulty and not acceptable?
By: Dr. (Mufti) Md. Obaidullah Qasmi 1. Instant triple talaq is valid according to Muslim personal law recognised to be based on Hanafite school of thought for Hanafi Muslims of India. Making it invalid is, in fact, stopping them from practicing their religion, the fundamental right guaranteed in the constitution. 2. Making instant triple talaq...
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January 3, 2018September 18, 2025Opinion, Special Column
Triple Talaq Bill is interface in Muslim Personal Law
By: Jaweria Afreen Hussaini Why does the ‘Triple Talaq Bill’ does directly hit the Shariah? And BJP announces that the Bill is not interfering with Shariah. What makes BJP say such huge like to the people of muslim community? The legality of this Bill is contradictory, full of loopholes and flaws. Can an Indian Muslim...