Opinion

  The great hopes of a leap forward to a new era that came with the end of the war have now been dispelled. The anticipated prosperity and inter-ethnic reconciliation that was expected to be Sri Lanka’s after the war has still not materialized. The continuing bailouts of loss making government enterprises and the impeachment of the Chief Justice are …

Dismissing this murderous act as the work of "a lone madman" ignores a more detailed study of the killer's motivation. A few years ago, the respected Cambridge scholar T J Winter, also known by his Muslim name of Abdal Hakim Murad, gave a fascinating lecture to Humanities staff and students at the University of Leicester. The title was "Islam and the threat of …

  Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam last weekend. Journalist Lauren Booth embraced the faith after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.    She is just one of a growing number of modern British career women to do so. Here, writer EVE AHMED, who was raised as a Muslim before rejecting the faith, explores the …

The contemporary resurgence of Islam and the growth of Islam in the West together have profound implications for what being a Muslim means today. The resurgence of Islam is essentially a search for authenticity, an attempt to reconstruct the Islamic identity within the contemporary context. And that contemporary context remains within the purview of Western influence. Muslim intellectuals and thinkers …

The Sino-Indian Geo-political Trap Sri Lanka’s political foolhardiness in its inability to solve peacefully its domestic ethnic minority issue over the last fifty or so years, as an independent sovereign nation state has, as a consequence of a bitterly fought civil war, pulled her into the vortex of a new geo-political game played amongst India, the United States and China …