Islamic Fundamentalists in North America
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt and its Wahhabi fundamentalist allies – who use the term “Salafi,” indicating Islamic virtue, to hide More...
“Neo-Salafi” Fallacies And Muslim Reaction to Insults Against Muhammad
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz The majority of the world’s Muslims – especially spiritual Sufis, but also traditional, conservative, moderate, and conventional believers – object to naming as “Salafis” More...
Modi and the Mahatma, who was more guilty?
Narendra Modi after Godhra and Mahatma Gandhi after the Khilafat were forced to deal with the violent aftermath. But there are striking differences between the way the two dealt with them. Also, Modi had nothing More...
Syria rebels say fighting army in Salaheddine
Syrian rebels said they had regained control over parts of a strategic district of Aleppo on Thursday after countering a sustained assault by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces seeking to retake Syria’s More...
Unity of India is of untold antiquity
Column by Virendra Parekh - India’s cultural unity goes back to Vedic times. Even when politically divided, the goal was always to unite it under a single chatra. There is no basis to the claim that India was More...
Syrian prime minister defects, fighting goes on
Syrian forces pressed on with their offensive against rebels in the largest city Aleppo after the prime minister fled the country, denouncing the “terrorist regime” of Bashar al-Assad. Riyad Hijab is More...
Annan arrives in Damascus, Syria tests missiles
Report by Oliver Holmes (Reuters) – Kofi Annan is due to hold talks on Monday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who said U.S. political support for “terrorists” was hindering the peace envoy’s More...
Wahhabi Eruption in Troubled Germany
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Veli Sirin & Ali Uyanik Germany and Islam have made news lately, none of it good. Germany has a large Muslim minority of around four million, or five percent of the More...
Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet
Report by Jonathon Burch and Erika Solomon (Reuters) – Turkey and Syria said their navies were jointly searching on Saturday for Turkish airmen shot down by Syria over the Mediterranean, while nearby Turkish More...
How the New Revolutions May Have Failed
Column Stephen Suleyman Schwartz At mid-June, the wave of democratic revolutions in “pre-emerging” countries – those that have not yet reached the status of “emerging economies” – had seemingly come More...
