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Articles Written by: ALI ETERAZ
Why are U.S. think tanks pushing for state-sponsored Islam in Pakistan?
Once certain ideas go mainstream, it often takes a pretty big flop to disprove them. The United States was supposed to be hailed as the liberator of Iraq, just as it was going to ...
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A recent sharia-for-peace deal between militant groups and the civilian government in Pakistan’s quasi-autonomous Swat region has ignited interest in the status ...
From ALI ETERAZ - DISSENT MAGAZINE,
RichardDawkins.net,
9 May 2009
Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad is perhaps the most significant British Muslim leader around. It is too bad that so few people know about him. Now that he has launched the Cambridge Muslim College, which is designed to train "local" specialists in Islamic ...
Barack Obama's inauguration promises to be one of the most important civic events in American history. Millions will make their way to the National Mall. More than 10,000 buses will be chartered. At a website called Inauguration or Bust, people ...
Ali Eteraz: The Bush administration's war on terror and extraordinary rendition did unspeakable violence to our lingua ...
In a 1999 debate, before he was elected president, George Bush was asked to name his favourite philosopher. He replied: "Jesus Christ, because he changed my life." Nine years later, with the benefit of hindsight, that appears to be the most honest and ...
It is likely that Barack Obama represents the end of the baby boomer period of American politics. Although he was born in 1961, and common wisdom pegs the baby boom between 1945 and 1965, Obama probably doesn't qualify as a boomer because he passed ...
Linda Grant, writing on these pages recently, divides America into big city versus small town. She believes that the former is intellectual and sophisticated (and therefore more likely to be liberal) and the latter is closed-minded, albeit good natured ...
Pakistan's nascent democratic movement has been subverted by selfishness and naked powerplays. Waiting for an authentic democracy to "evolve" remains the ultimate goal, but given the way the Taliban are systematically dismantling the country one has to ...
During the last few years, through a mixture of felicitous contingency and willful ambition I have found myself in a position where I can not only make public declarations about the social landscape of the world but am also looked upon by other people ...
