November, 2009

• 12 November

  Why British Women are turning to Islaam

  THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED The Times (London) Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage. Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches. The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly …

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• 11 November

  Iran against New Imperialism

  The world needs to get a sophisticated understanding of the problem of Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions. It has figured so steadfastly in the media for weeks, months, and years, that it has become understandable that the Israeli President Shimon Peres should say “Iran today is really a world problem, maybe the number one problem of the world.” (London Telegraph interview …

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• 10 November

  The Unbreakable Bond,Why Sinhalese-Muslim relations have stood the test of time, By Asiff Hussein

  The relations that have existed between the Sinhalese and Muslims of Sri Lanka since time immemorial may be cited as a unique example of ethnic harmony in pluralistic, multi-ethnic societies. This inimitable relationship between the country’s majority community comprising of over 70 percent of the population and a minority of less than 10 percent is certainly an eye-opener for all …

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• 10 November

  Politics of science, By PANKAJ SEKHSARIA

  Interview with Geert Somsen, a historian of science at Maastricht University. GEERT SOMSEN is a historian of science with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He currently directs his faculty’s Graduate School and teaches in several bachelor’s and master’s programmes. He graduated in Chemistry but switched to historical research about 20 years ago. …

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• 9 November

  Ragging and the moral dilemma, By Appekka Fernando

  Bullying, ragging, intimidation, are acceptable news stories in our morning papers. As a predominantly religious and moral society, where non violence is more than a philosophy, where a large number of people are vegetarian and abstain from alcohol, where religions are interchangeable and festivals celebrated by all, how have we come to that place where, we look on as a …

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• 9 November

  Waging War Upon Ourselves, By Peter Chamberlin

  It is easy to see why Pakistan has been chosen as the battleground of the century, but it is a real shame to us all that we have allowed our governments so much unsupervised freedom of action that they could get away with the things you are about to read about in the following article.  It is a difficult story …

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• 8 November

  How Western governments and media spread Islamophobia

  This is an abridged version of a paper presented by Zafar Bangash, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, at a conference on Islamophobia held in Tehran on October 6 and 7, 2009. Two misconceptions need addressing before proceeding with discussion of the role of Western governments and media in promoting Islamophobia. The first myth is that governments in …

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