Crescent International Vol. 27, No. 16

Newsmagazine of the Islamic movement

Iqbal Siddiqui

Jumada' al-Akhirah, 1419 1998-10

Developing Just Leadership

Yusuf Progler

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Book Review

METAL OF DISHONOR: DEPLETED URANIUM - HOW THE PENTAGON RADIATES SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS WITH DU WEAPONS. By the Depleted Uranium Education Project. International Action Center, New York, US. 1997. pp. 238. Pbk: US$12.95.

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Book Review

Since the signing of the peace accords between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Israel four years ago in Washington, a whole industry has sprung up studying the peace process. There are departments, organisations and think-tanks all drum-beating about it.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Crescent International

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Features

With the Ummah confronted by so many burning issues - Kosova, Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan - it may appear a trifle incongruous to focus on the question of Kashmir at this time. But of all the other areas, together with Palestine, Kashmir stands at the top of the agenda.

K M Azam

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Features

The difference between Shari’ah (Canon law) and fiqh (Canonical Jurisprudence) is not well known as these two terms are frequently used synonymously.

Developing Just Leadership

Our Own Correspondent

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Occupied Arab World

It would be funny if it were not so tragic. With most of its population trapped in poverty and pervasive unemployment, and its national assets being plundered by a corrupt ruling elite and foreign business interests under the guise of an IMF structural adjustment programme...

Developing Just Leadership

Mahmoud Ahmed Shaikh

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

Occupied Arab World

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is ruthlessly, if somewhat desperately, exploiting the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the American cruise missile attack on Khartoum and Afghanistan to secure international action against ‘terrorism.’

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

South-East Asia

Amid uncharacteristically strong defiance, the people of Malaysia have kept the tempo of demonstrations despite the arrest of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim last month.

At a time when millions of Iraqis are being starved to death and a Pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan was destroyed by US missiles for allegedly producing chemical weapons, a South African doctor has revealed that he had unresticted access to western chemical and biological weapons programmes in the eighties.

Developing Just Leadership

Murtaza Haider

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

World

After refusing for years to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) - an international agreement aimed at limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons - both Pakistan and India announced in late September that they were willing to do so.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

World

The demons of Serbian nationalism are on the loose again, this time in the overwhelmingly Muslim province of Kosova. With their blood lust not nearly satiated in Bosnia even after three years of macabre killing rituals, they have now turned their wrath against the defenceless people of Kosova.

Developing Just Leadership

Waseem Shehzad

Jumada' al-Akhirah 25, 1419

World

Days before Iran’s foreign minister Kamal Kharazi met his British counterpart Robin Cook in New York on September 24 agreeing to restore full diplomatic relations, the British media had launched a campaign linking this to the Salman Rushdie saga.

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