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Dhu al-Hijjah, 14302009-12-01

Crescent International Vol. 38, No. 10

Main Stories

Obama’s surge becomes scourge for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Zia Sarhadi

Dissenting voices against the surge and futility of war were heard from the antiwar movement but these are largely confined to the internet...

Editorials

String of Zionist-sponsored anti-Iran conferences

Abu Dharr

At a time when the world’s attention is focused on the horrible crimes the Zionists perpetrated in Gaza exactly a year ago and continue to do so against hapless Palestinians today, the Zionists are busy demonizing Iran...

Editorials

Impediments in the path of Muslim unity

Editor

Two laments are common among Muslims: lack of unity and negative projection of Muslims in the Western media. Most Muslims believe cooperation between Muslim rulers and governments constitutes unity...

Editorials

Intensification of war on Muslims in the US

Editor

The US has intensified its war on Muslim citizens. This was clearly expected because its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not going well. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, one could understand that US policy would be driven by fear...

Opinion

Centrality of Arabic as a unifying factor in the Islamic movement

Iqbal Siddiqui

That sense of unity was based on a common faith of course, but was supported also by a number of other factors that have been lost...

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Opinion

The US cannot do a damn thing

Our Own Correspondent

Let us get something straight after knocking out all the middlemen: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is US president Barack Obama’s boss. A person incapable of seeing this basic point will never be able to understand the off-again, on-again...

Opinion

Death of the unipolar world

Zafar Bangash

This, however, is a superficial look at global reality. After all, the Soviet Union was also a superpower armed with nuclear weapons and had the largest air force in the world when it invaded Afghanistan on December 27, 1979...

News & Analysis

Press TV’s terminology needs improving

Our Own Correspondent

When Iran’s Press TV first joined the global media networks some two years ago, it generated much excitement among committed Muslims as well as those seeking honest reporting of global events.

News & Analysis

Iran protests: the view from Tehran

Zafar Bangash

I must admit even a seasoned observer like myself had started to wonder whether there was some truth to the allegations of widespread anger against the Islamic system in Iran following last June’s presidential elections...

Editor's Desk

Gaza: the contemporary Karbala

Editor

Muslims worldwide have just commemorated the tragic events of Karbala when more than 1,300 years ago Imam Husain, his family and a small group of committed Muslims were massacred by the army of Yazid...

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