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Rabi' al-Thani, 14402019-01-01

Crescent International Vol. 47, No. 11

News & Analysis

Bani Saud’s Shameful Role in Yemen’s History

Brecht Jonkers

The Bani Saud have a long sordid history of meddling in Yemeni affairs, the latest assault launched nearly four years ago being only one manifestation of it.

Special Reports

On “idolagy”

Afeef Khan

It is the illegitimate exercise of power by those intoxicated by technology and have removed the Day of Judgment from their calculations that have caused so much suffering and killings in the world

Opinion

Condescending and discriminatory Beliefs are of Satan — Not Allah

Abu Dharr

Exposing the Zionists and Bani Saud as bosom pals and enemies of Allah, the Muslims and of humanity at large.

News & Analysis

Scholars for Dollars

Zafar Bangash

No informed Muslim would say that most rulers in the Muslim world follow the injunctions of Islam yet paid preachers offer them respectability by urging Muslims not to rebel lest it leads to greater fitna. It is a shame.

Islamic Movement

Open Letter to Aleksandr Dugin

Charles Upton [Sidi Akram]

Islamic scholar Charles Upton takes on Dugin and his ‘Fourth Political Theory’ in his new book, Dugin against Dugin: A Traditionalist Critique of the Fourth Political Theory and invites him to an intellectual combat.

Opinion

“Naya” (new) Pakistan, Old Habits!

Zafar Bangash

Following a recent visit to Pakistan, the ICIT director shares his observations about a country striving for change but remains mired in old habits.

Editorials

Syria: Victory for the Resistance Front

Editor

Donald Trump claimed the US has ‘defeated’ ISIS so he is pulling the 2,000 troops out. The US has done no such thing; ISIS is a US creation. It has been defeated by the resistance front, period!

Editor's Desk

Arabian Potentates Make up with Syria

Editor

With the regime-change plot in Syria biting the dust, Arabian potentates are rushing to kiss and make-up with Syria’s Bashar al Asad. It is a sea change from the beginning of 2011.

Editorials

Khalilzad’s Delusional Proposals

Editor

Staring defeat in the Hindu Kush mountains, the Americans have come up with other delusional proposals to destabilize neighboring Pakistan and stay in war-torn Afghanistan.

Opinion

Rising American violence: Images and Reality

Kevin Barrett

Violence is as American as apple pie. The country with the largest military budget by far has caused great mayhem abroad while Americans continue to kill each other in large numbers.

Main Stories

US-Russia Relations in the post-Trump Era

Waseem Shehzad

Even with a buffoon in the White House and an assertive Russia under Putin, the latter remains vulnerable in Central Asia where the US has much room for mischief.

Main Stories

Syria Endgame

Kevin Barrett

The imperialist-Zionist regime change plot has been defeated in Syria but it may be premature to celebrate total victory until Zionism has also been consigned to the dustbin of history.

News & Analysis

Islamophobic Hindu Eats Crow with Public Apology

Hayy Yaqzan

Ron Banerjee, the Islamophobic Hindu was forced to publicly apologize to the owner of Paramount Fine Foods when the latter took him to court. More Muslims need to follow the example of Muhamed Fakih and take legal action against the Islamophobes.

Special Reports

2019: Year of the Black Swan?

Kevin Barrett

Making predictions about the future is hazardous but by studying trends, one can make reasonably informed guesses about what to expect in 2019.

Islamic Movement

The Duty of Protecting Sacred Sites

John Andrew Morrow

The Bani Saud are guilty of wiping out most sacred Islamic heritage sites in the world. This is a loss to Islam, Muslims and humanity at large.

Book Review

The Prophet’s Covenants

Charles Upton [Sidi Akram]

Professor Charles Upton reviews the three-volume series edited by Dr John Andrew Morrow, Islam and the People of the Book: Critical Studies on the Covenants of the Prophet.

Letters To The Editor

Starving Yemeni Children

Fehmida Usman

It is unconscionable to see Yemeni children dying before our eyes. If they have not been afflicted by disease, hunger — the modern form of man-imposed disease — is taking a heavy toll.

Letters To The Editor

Helping Yemen

Tariq Salim

Since the harrowing scenes of starving Yemeni children have been shown on television screens, a number of charitable organizations in Canada have sprung into action to help them.

Letters To The Editor

Ghazzah

Muhammad Abdul Wadud

It is good to learn that the people of Ghazzah were able to hold the Zionist invaders at bay forcing them to sue for peace. The Zionist war criminals do not want peace unless they see the odds stacked against them.

Letters To The Editor

Islamophobia in the West

Munir Ahmed Chaudhry

Islamophobia is a real threat to the existence and survival of Muslims in the West. Let there be no mistake; it is deliberately being stoked in order to create an enemy out of Muslims.

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