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Crescent International Vol. 39, No. 7

Main Stories

Pakistan floods: where is the government?

Waseem Shehzad

Zardari owns a huge property in France where his father Hakim Ali Zardari now lives

Editorials

The Ummah and al-Quds

Zafar Bangash

There was a time when every Muslim student instinctively knew about the significance of Masjid al-Aqsa (al-Quds), the first qiblah of Muslims. It was from there that the noble Messenger (pbuh) went on his mi‘raj in the twelfth year of his prophetic mission

Editorials

Consequences of Pakistan’s devastating floods

Zafar Bangash

To understand the floods’ impact on Pakistan’s economy, let us look at some statistics. Even before the floods, 40% of Pakistan’s population lived below the poverty line

Opinion

Muslims in the west: victims of an inescapable historical confrontation I

Iqbal Siddiqui

Several articles in this issue of Crescent International discuss the problems faced by Muslims living in western countries, particularly since the launching of the “war on terror” after the attacks on the World Trade Centre

Opinion

Obama and Osama cut from the same cloth by the same tailor

Abu Dharr

September is the month of 9/11. How can anyone forget 9/11? Dare anyone forget 9/11?! And if it is beginning to slip out of a public’s mind that is really more interested in the New York Yankees than in the World Trade Center, then in comes the “controversy” to rekindle the flames of 9/11

Opinion

Impact of 9/11 on Muslims

Zafar Bangash

Fear and paranoia have become the new parameters for every policy. While the attacks occurred in the US, other western countries also immediately passed repressive laws that were essentially aimed at targeting Muslims

News & Analysis

Honour strippings of Muslim women in the west

Fahad Ansari

In their latest effort to “liberate” Muslim women from the “oppression” of Islam, and to restore their dignity and honour, secular governments have started passing legislation forcing them to remove their clothes.

News & Analysis

German Muslims continue to suffer from post 9/11 trauma

Ahmet Aslan

Germany has a notorious reputation for its racist and discriminatory attitude toward minorities. It has refused to accommodate a large minority community that has lived in Germany for generations.

News & Analysis

They’ve come for the lawyers…

Fahad Ansari

The presumption of innocence is the cornerstone of every legal system in the modern world and one which goes to the heart of the principles of due process.

News & Analysis

“Ground Zero Mosque” crisis and the smoke screen of moderate Muslim identity

Zainab Cheema

The renaming of the Center is a particularly eye-catching facet of this enterprise. The Cordoba House, named for Al-Andalus’s achievements in erudition and cultural pluralism, is now the rather legalistic Park 51 Center, shearing off the historical allusions to past Islamic civilizations.

News & Analysis

US announcement of direct talks already a success for Israel and bodes ill for Palestinians

Iqbal Siddiqui

The announcement by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on August 20 that the US is to host direct talks between Palestinian president Mahmood Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu has singularly failed to raise hopes of progress toward any level of justice for the suffering people of Palestine.

News & Analysis

Somali demonstrators demand release of Somali aid-workers held in US as terrorists

M.A. Shaikh

Yet the document outlining specific charges against Amina insists that she transferred funds to “terrorist organisations” through various hawalas (business means used frequently in the Muslim world to send money).

Islamic Movement

NED’s agenda shapes its false conclusions

Maksud Djavadov

Applying secular perspectives, derived from the Western notion of party politics, on measuring the power of the Islamic movement will never produce accurate results. Just like applying secular methods of pure party politics will never bring a desired result for an Islamic movement.

Islamic Movement

Hizbullah: a brief historical overview

Siraj ul-Deen

By the 1990s, the civil war had ended. Hizbullah was better able to focus its energies on expelling the Zionist Israelis from the South.

Special Reports

Why poor countries repeatedly fail

Zafar Bangash

Imperialists, Zionists, capitalists, and their enabling analogs in the poor countries of the world run around and tear up the lives of ordinary people, cause havoc in global markets, run down the environment and everything else in their path, leading to all manner of human suffering.

Special Reports

Pakistan: third-class US ally

Zia Sarhadi

Now to the situation in Pakistan, and the inability of the government to properly address the crisis. Any subscriber of Crescent International knows that Pakistan has been the subject of numerous articles and opinion pieces, and thus this is not the place to go over a detailed history of the country and outside involvement in its internal affairs.

Special Reports

Haiti: a 21st-century US slave plantation

Crescent International

Haiti was the first African colony of slaves in the New World to declare independence from its colonial (French) overlords in 1804. The United States refused to recognize this new expression of freedom.

Special Reports

“Natural” disasters are sponsored by corrupt power structures

Afeef Khan

Blaming God makes it easy to give in to the human demi-gods’ way of running things and to not have to do anything of real value to make the situation better.

Editor's Desk

Turkish Muslims open hearts, wallets for Pakistan

Editor

While in Istanbul, we witnessed a remarkable display of brotherhood of Islam. Everyday, there were scores of public iftars organized by officials of various districts in the city, starting with the mayor of Istanbul.

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