Eruption of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state early this month not only threatens to derail the country’s democratic transition but also brought to light the plight of Rohingya Muslims.  According to reports, Muslims account for about four percent of the total population of around 60 million in Myanmar, a resource-rich nation strategically positioned at Asia’s crossroads between India and China, Bangladesh …

Despised by Jewish lobbies in United States and Europe well known French philosopher, left wing intellectual and prominent communist author Roger Garaudy died last week   near Paris at the age of 98.  Born into a Catholic and atheist family Garaudy, a holocaust denier, converted  Protestant at the age of 14   before embracing Islam in 1982. As a Muslim he adopted …

  The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, recently stated that President Obama's war against Islam is far more brutal than that of his predecessor, with the administration opting for deadly drone attacks over arrests.   The indiscriminate US drone attacks and the senseless killing of innocent people   have reached scandalous proportions, prompting even the pliant Pakistani …

  Taking on the task of writing about the late Dr. Baduideen Mahmud is a challenge to anyone – moreso to the writer who cannot boast of any journalistic skill or prior experience. A revolutionary in a positive sense, he was a man with a mission from his early childhood. The very same flame that ignited him into public life …

  The past several months have witnessed a heated debate over the best way for the United States and Israel to respond to Iran's nuclear activities. As the argument has raged, the United States has tightened its already robust sanctions regime against the Islamic Republic, and the European Union announced in January that it will begin an embargo on Iranian …