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Reporting from Cairo — Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.  Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was appointed this month to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. ·         Judge to review …

[hana-flv-player video=”https://sailanmuslim.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/video.flv” width=”400″ height=”320″ ” player=”3″ autoplay=”false” loop=”false” autorewind=”true” splashimage=”https://sailanmuslim.com/news/wp-content/themes/newspress/images/logo.gif” /] Racist Tamils in various parts of the world who support LTTE terrorists to achieve their separatist goals have been continuing their false propaganda to mislead the world community and align the world against democratically elected Sri Lankan government. Poor Sri Lankan government while fighting world s one of the …

This article is an extended version of a short address that I made at the recent launch of the Sailan Muslim website (www.sailanmuslim.com ), in which my focus was on the politics of identity. As this article has the same focus I will not be going into the rationale and objectives of the new Muslim website except to the extent …

Ehud Olmert’s nightmare is at hand. Not only does the former Israeli prime minister now really have to fight those corruption charges. He also faces the realization of his fears that the Palestinians might give up on a two-state solution in favor of a struggle for equal rights that would mean, as he put it, the “end of the Jewish …

Sir Allama Muhammed Iqbal, one of the greatest poets and thinkers of the last century, once said that “ there would be no peace in the world if there was no peace in Afghanistan”- a  deeply entrenched tribal society known for sacrificing precious lives to preserve their rights and dignity  .  Those in and around Afghanistan understand the extremely complex …

Russia announced on April 16 that it had ended the war in Chechnya. The announcement was largely symbolic because for a long time, there had been no clashes in Grozny. Wars can be won, but conflict resolution requires compromise and goodwill. In Chechnya this did not happen. Might can be right, but not always. In a democracy where human rights …