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  What will be the repercussions when two giants clash? China, the world's number two economic power, and Japan, which had until recently held the number two position, are on a collision course and the intricacies of the disputes and their ramifications make one wonder whether a new bipolar world, similar to the one that had existed for some five …

Daniel Pipes' 2005 article on terrorism starts with the following statement "What do Islamist terrorists want? The answer should be obvious, but it is not." After a tortuous description of so many cases of terrorism, Daniel Pipes finally pronounces the verdict: "In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and …

  This is a transcript of a talk by Imam Khalid Lathif on human rights under Islam, delivered at the American Corner of the National Library on 3rd August 2010.Imam  Khalid Latif is the Executive Director and Chaplain for the Islamic Center at NYU. His dedication to working across the boundaries of faith and culture lead to his appointment as …

India has apparently lost its cold war with China, or at least the current phase of it. What is disturbing to India is not only China's superior military power and stronger economy, but also China's intrusion into what was once regarded as India's backyard. The development has rendered the so-called Indira doctrine ineffective or obsolete. The doctrine, formulated during the …

'Papa, Don't Do It'   Pastor Terry Jones: "He seems like a stranger to me." It remains unclear whether Pastor Terry Jones will go ahead with his plan to burn Korans in Florida on Saturday. His daughter Emma has begged him not to go through with it. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, she describes a man who became a …

  In recent weeks and days, US President Barack Obama earned ten points, lost ten points and earned ten points again with his headline-hitting political moves. On August 14, he earned ten points for standing firm in support of a move to build an Islamic cultural centre and a mosque near Ground Zero where nine Septembers ago two towering structures …