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Crescent International Vol. 38, No. 11

Main Stories

Turkey begins to assert its Islamic identity

Cemal Ahmedoglu

The Domestic Trigger Since the imposition of Kemalist secularism as official dogma, the military has been the key instrument to prevent Islamic revival in Turkish society...

Main Stories

Analysis of Iran’s political dynamics over 31 years

Zafar Bangash

But it would appear that both the criminal elements in Iran and their Western backers have overplayed their hand...

Editorials

Obama’s report card after one year

Abu Dharr

But Obama has been a huge disappointment to most Americans as well. Republican Scott Brown’s victory to the senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts since 1972 is reflective of this mood swing...

Editorials

Iran’s Islamic Revolution turns 31

Zafar Bangash

The present political architecture of the world was cobbled together by the victors of the Second World War...

Opinion

The Ikhwan’s difficult path between accommodation, repression and militancy

Iqbal Siddiqui

The election last month of Mohammed Badei as the eighth Murshid al-‘Am (General Guide) of the Ikhwan al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, and the results of December’s elections for the Ikhwan’s Maktab al-Irshad...

Opinion

A brotherly reminder to internal opponents of the Islamic State

Abu Dharr

This year the Islamic Revolution in Iran turns 31; this means 31 years of independence, change, struggle, and accomplishments. What has emerged through the course of these 31 years, which in the lifespan of nations is still tiny, is the fact that Islamic Iran is Zionism and imperialism’s number one enemy...

Opinion

The enduring utility of labels

Zafar Bangash

Concepts are useful tools that aid our understanding. Children learn new concepts through association with things familiar; adults learn through experiment and experience. Just as children learn not to put their hand in the fire because it burns...

News & Analysis

Pakistan supplants Iraq as lawless land

Waseem Shehzad

All this is the gift of American friendship and the war on terror into which Pakistan has been sucked through US bullying...

News & Analysis

Forensic analysis of the Zionist war on Gaza

Maksud Djavadov

The primary reason for the Zionist war machine’s military assault on Gaza was its historic defeat at the hands of Hizbullah in Lebanon.

News & Analysis

CIA agents killed by Jordanian double agent in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

The December 30 istishhadi operation at a remote base in Afghanistan’s Khost Province achieved two vital objectives: it demolished virtually the entire crop of CIA officers operating in the field, and it blew the cover off Jordan’s deep involvement with the Americans in Afghanistan causing it huge embarrassment at home...

News & Analysis

Egypt’s Pharaoh enforces US-Zionist siege of Gaza

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Mubarak was vice president at the time of Sadat’s killing and succeeded him...

Special Reports

Like Pakistan, the US too now a failed State

Tahir Mustafa

Politically the US has become too weak to be able to advance its interests through diplomacy so it relies on terrorism and military aggression...

Special Reports

Yemen: a war front in the global war of ideas

Afeef Khan

None of this is easy to say. No one can argue that those humans in history who were in possession of the best ideas were Allah’s Prophets (swt)...

Special Reports

Russia’s imperial policies in the North Caucasus

Maksud Djavadov

Even during his time, the independence movement was not monolithic. The Islamic resistance movement under Sheikh Shamil was composed of various ethnic and tribal interests with shifting allegiances..

Special Reports

Eurasia’s energy wars: the US, China and Muslims in Pipelineistan

Zainab Cheema

To perceive the tactics of the game, we first must understand the terrain...

Editor's Desk

The gulag at Guantanamo defines US values

Editor

US President Barack Obama’s January 22 deadline for closing the Guantanamo torture chamber has come and gone...

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