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Sha'ban, 14352014-06-01

Crescent International Vol. 43, No. 4

Main Stories

Nigeria: lament of a nation

Adamu Adamu

What is Boko Haram, what role is the American CIA playing in its promotion and who else is behind it are questions addressed by Adamu Adamu in Nigeria

Main Stories

Al-Asad’s deft moves prior to Syrian election

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Bashar al-Asad seems set to win the June 3 election, not by rigging but winning people’s confidence frustrating the Western-Arabian inspired conspiracy against his government.

Opinion

Living Ramadan

Zafar Bangash

Ramadan must mean more than merely abstaining from food and drinks for a specified number of hours even if this would be arduous in the summer months. Ramadan is the month of the Qur’an and Muslims must engage the noble Book for true guidance.

Opinion

Saudi Arabia: the mother of all evils

Abu Dharr

The House of Saud has financed many mercenary writers to paint the Islamic Republic of Iran in a negative light. This hate-campaign, however, is not limited to Iran; even the Ikhwan in Egypt have become victims of Saudi vilification.

Opinion

Why Muslim leaders need to be strategic in order to acquire political power

Afeef Khan

The ICIT’s value proposition for the business model is to provide emerging Islamic leaders with resources and tools that enable them to become just leaders by implementing good strategy.

Editorials

Imam Khomeini’s inspiring leadership

Zafar Bangash

Given the paucity of good leaders in the Muslim world, Imam Khomeini, who joined heavenly company in June 1989, offers an example of great leadership.

News & Analysis

“They want to start a religious war; we want to extinguish it” – Mufti of Syria

Eva Bartlett

Leading figures in Syria such as the Mufti of Syria who lost his own son to a terrorist attack, want to extinguish the fires of hatred. The overwhelming majority of Syrians agree, isolating the foreign-backed mercenaries inside and outside Syria.

News & Analysis

Sleeping with the Devil

Eric Walberg

Muslims opposed to the extremist ideology espoused and practiced by the likes of al-Qaeda, have to be careful not to become unwitting tools of imperialism.

News & Analysis

Islamophobic hysteria rises again in the UK

Ayesha Alam

Hatred against Muslims is rising alarmingly in Britain. The number of attacks on Muslims, especially women in hijab, as well as on mosques is on the rise. There are also demands from fascist elements not to permit any more mosques to be built.

News & Analysis

America loses another war: on poverty

Khadijah Ali

It may sound contradictory but poverty in the US is widespread despites its being the world’s richest country. This is because inequality is built in to the US system with the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.

News & Analysis

You can buy politicians, says US Supreme Court

Ayesha Alam

America has the best democracy money can buy. This has become even truer with the latest Supreme Court decision. America is now an oligarchy rather than a democracy and the highest court has confirmed it.

Islamic Movement

Practical steps towards Muslim unity

Maksud Djavadov

While many Muslims talk about unity, their starting point is often flawed. It begins at the point where the other side is tolerated but not accepted as equally legitimate.

Special Reports

Syrians refuse to be cowed by terrorists

Eva Bartlett

The Syrian people have shown a remarkable resilience in the face of the barbaric onslaught of terrorists armed, financed and instigated from abroad. The people refuse to surrender to mass murderers and cannibals.

Special Reports

Russia’s economy weak despite huge resources

Maksud Djavadov

Russia is emerging as a major power but its economy is still weak despite being endowed with enormous natural resources.

Editor's Desk

Understanding South Africa’s elections

Crescent International

The people of South Africa have once again reposed confidence in the African National Congress but there are challenges ahead both from the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Front (EFF) that have made inroads in urban and rural areas respectively.

Letters To The Editor

The King’s royal decree No. 45

Mohammed H. Siddiq

This reader takes a satirical look at King Abdullah’s antics.

Letters To The Editor

Must be mindful of Ummah’s needs

Abdulaziz-ul-Haqq ibn Orozco

Appeal from a reader for the release of Princess Jawaher from house arrest in the kingdom so she can marry the person of her choice.

Letters To The Editor

Question about al-Anood al-Fayez

Nour Islam

Appeal from a reader for the release of Princess Jawaher from house arrest in the kingdom so she can marry the person of her choice.

Letters To The Editor

GCC

Syed Anwar Hussain

The Gulf Cooperation Council is actually a gathering of conspirators that was established to undermine the Islamic Republic. It has failed miserably.

Letters To The Editor

Modi’s rise

Baqir Mahmood

The rise to power of Narendra Modi in India bodes ill for Muslims. Modi’s hands are drenched with the blood of innocents.

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