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Crescent International Vol. 48, No. 11

Opinion

Chaos in Iraq: Imperialist Divide-And- Conquer Policy

Kevin Barrett

Exploiting the legitimate grievances of the Iraqi people, the US has unleashed its paid agents to sow chaos in Iraq to bring down the government. The overall objective is to undermine Islamic Iran’s influence thereby weakening the resistance front.

Special Reports

History of Islam in China

Yehia Amin

Tracing the roots of Islam in China that date back to the advent of Allah’s final message to all humanity.

Opinion

When Goliath is an Israel and David is a Muslim

Abu Dharr

Zionist Israel and their backers are in panic mode. They witness the rise of Islamic Iran and the Resistance axis with alarm and feel the heat. In their desperation, they might trigger a war with Islamic Iran that would put paid to the illegitimate entity in Occupied Palestine.

Main Stories

Vision 2020: With Hindsight

Tahir Mustafa

Based on our understanding of global events and their impact on the Muslim world, we identify certain trouble spots that are likely to remain in the news. We are not making predictions, merely analyzing trends that lead us to such conclusions.

News & Analysis

Yemen’s Stiff Resistance Humiliates Bani Saud

Brecht Jonkers

Yemen’s Ansarallah revolutionaries have given the Saudis a bloody nose and forced them to seek a negotiated settlement. Saudi failure in Yemen may result in Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman losing his position, and perhaps even his head!

Opinion

Struggle Against Injustice

Zafar Bangash

The world is mired in injustice. The rich and powerful exploit and suppress the poor and downtrodden. Far from ameliorating the suffering of the poor, inequality is growing. With no recourse to legal redress, the poor and the oppressed have no choice but to rise against their oppressors.

Editor's Desk

New Islamic Summit in Kuala Lumpur

Editor

The Arabian potentates were livid at the temerity of Malaysia, Turkey and Qatar to hold an Islamic Summit in Kuala Lumpur. The Arabian rulers forced Pakistan not to attend but the summit also exposed their incompetence and subservience to imperialism and Zionism.

Editorials

Nationalism’s Disastrous Impact on Muslims

Editor

Nationalism has no basis in Islam yet the overwhelming majority of Muslims are taken in by its rhetoric and debilitating influence. Injected by the colonialists into the body politic of Islam, this poisonous ideology continues to afflict every Muslim society with disastrous consequences.

Editorials

Anti-Semitic Smear

Editor

The Zionists and their supporters are getting desperate. Israeli crimes against Palestinians are now widely known and condemned worldwide leading to Zionist hysteria. Criticism of Israeli crimes is now being equated with anti-Semitism.

News & Analysis

Global Flashpoints, 2020

Waseem Shehzad

Trump’s impeachment circus, fallout from Brexit, Islamic Iran’s continued rise, turmoil in Egypt, Saudi bloody nose in Yemen and Saudi-Emirati destabilization of Oman are some of the stories that will dominate 2020.

News & Analysis

Costly Illusions of Western Politics

Masoud Shadnam

The West led by the US has for decades indulged in propaganda presenting itself as champion of human rights, peace and progress yet people in the rest of the world have suffered grievous harm as a result of its policies.

News & Analysis

Proxy war in Syria: Past, Present and Future

Waseem Shehzad

With massive help from friends and allies like Islamic Iran, Hizbullah and Russia, the Syrian government has been able to defeat the regime-change conspiracy of US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

News & Analysis

Syria “Truth Bombs” Explode Western Lies

Kevin Barrett

The vicious lies peddled about Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons attack on Douma in April 2018 that nearly led to World War III have been exposed by insiders from the OPCW, the body tasked with preventing or investigating such attacks. The Western media, however, refuses to report these explosive revelations.

News & Analysis

At the Line of Control in Kashmir

Zafar Bangash

The state of Jammu and Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan by what is referred to as the Line of Control (LoC). A Canadian delegation of human rights activists led by ICIT Director Zafar Bangash visited the LoC last month and compiled this report.

News & Analysis

Bani Saud Revive Paganism in Arabia

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

The Najdi Bedouins take great offence if Muslims celebrate the birthday of the noble Messenger (pbuh) yet they have no problem celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali and the pagan festival of Halloween in the medieval kingdom.

News & Analysis

Aramco Hype: Primitivism at Its Peak

Tahir Mahmoud

The Saudi oil company Aramco is presented as some kind of a golden goose but hard data shows it does not meet this standard; far from it.

Special Reports

In the Age of Exceptionalism

Zafar Bangash

Exceptionalism is a disease that has afflicted many people worldwide including Americans, British, Germans, Zionists and now even Hindus

Book Review

An Honest Account of Atrocities

Kevin Barrett

William R. Polk, who taught Arabic at Harvard and the University of Chicago, gives a fairly accurate account of Western atrocities against Muslims in his 2018 book, Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North

Letters To The Editor

Confronting Islamophobia

Shariq Ahmed

Islamophobia poses an existential threat to Muslims. It is not just the ordinary ignorant rednecks, racists, and bigots that pose a risk.

Letters To The Editor

Indian Fascists

Mubeen Jalees

Indian fascism is on a rampage. Since Narendra Modi’s ascension to power, the fascists have come out openly in targeting Muslims.

Letters To The Editor

Kashmiris Suffer

Mujahid Butt

The 8 million people of Indian occupied Kashmir have been under a brutal lockdown since August 5.

Letters To The Editor

Muslim Disunity

Mansoor Ali Khan

Unfortunately disunity among Muslims is enabling others to target and kill them.

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