Muslim Issues

Nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings. It was a scene that riveted the world for weeks: The ailing Yasser Arafat, first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound, then shuttled to Paris, where he spent his final days undergoing a barrage of medical tests in a French military hospital. Eight years …

  With breath-taking arrogance, the USA is opposing the presence of Iran at the discussions about Syria in Geneva. Turkey – now openly playing the sectarian card and deliberately causing a Phantom jet to fly in fast and low in order to provoke a reaction and so involve NATO – can be present. The USA – supplying arms to al-Qaeda; …

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 …

  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 …