Crescent International Vol. 31, No. 3

Newsmagazine of the Islamic movement

Iqbal Siddiqui

Muharram, 1423 2002-04

Developing Just Leadership

Iqbal Siddiqui

Muharram 18, 1423

Book Review

Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia by Robert W. Hefner. Pub: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2000. Pp: 286. Pbk: $17.95 / £12.95.

Developing Just Leadership

Editor

Muharram 18, 1423

Editorials

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Dr Kalim Siddiqui (r.a). On April 18, 1996, he suffered his last heart attack in Pretoria, South Africa, at the end of another successful Crescent International conference and lecture tour.

Developing Just Leadership

Yusuf Al-Khabbaz

Muharram 18, 1423

Features

The Jews are pillaging Palestine, and the world is looking away. A few feeble-minded declarations and toothless resolutions notwithstanding, no one with the capability to say or do anything of substance seems to care.

Developing Just Leadership

Crescent International

Muharram 18, 1423

Islamic Movement

This month marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Dr KALIM SIDDIQUI, one of the leading intellectuals of the contemporary Islamic movement. Here we reprint an abridged version of an article first published in 1983.

Ensuring Socio-economic Justice

A Contributor in Dubai

Muharram 18, 1423

Occupied Arab World

Twenty million dirhams required to make it “a world class event, the first of its kind in the Middle East, featuring live dances by world-renowned dance troupes from 5 continents, combined with a unique laser show, to be completed with the most well-choreographed fireworks display ever seen in this part of the world.”

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Abul Fadl

Muharram 18, 1423

Occupied Arab World

During his recent gruelling 10-day, 12-country tour of the Middle East and Britain, US vice president Dick Cheney hoped to build a case for an Afghan-style war against Iraq...

Developing Just Leadership

Abul Fadl

Muharram 18, 1423

Occupied Arab World

Lebanese authorities have broken up a spy ring that provided Israel with information about the activities of the Hizbullah-led Islamic resistance in Lebanon, as well as of the military positions and activities of the Lebanese and Syrian armies...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 18, 1423

Occupied Arab World

The second intifada has developed a life of its own, as the blows delivered by Palestinian mujahideen on two consecutive days (March 20 and 21) showed, even as frantic efforts were under way to save the zionist occupiers by an American-brokered ceasefire.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

M.A. Shaikh

Muharram 18, 1423

Occupied Arab World

The increasing activity of US military and intelligence officers in Somalia — and the need in general to justify the extension of the “war on terror” — led Washington to announce on March 18 that it had found incontrovertible evidence linking al-Qaeda to Islamic activists in Somalia.

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Abdar Rahman Koya

Muharram 18, 1423

South-East Asia

South East Asia has enjoyed relative peace since the end of US involvement in Vietnam two decades ago. Border disputes have been largely controlled, with governments maintaining a neutral zone through the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which has been hailed as a model regional pact.

Developing Just Leadership

Zia Sarhadi

Muharram 18, 1423

World

Despite making tall claims about wiping out Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the Shahi Kot mountains, reports from the area reveal a very different picture. Figures given out by the US for its latest operation, codenamed Operation Anaconda, after the snake that squeezes its prey to death, mention an estimated 1,000 Taliban...

Dead people, especially if they happen to be political leaders, assume a stature larger than life in many ‘third world’ countries. Politicians in Bangladesh, however, have turned the worship of dead leaders into a religious cult.

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has confirmed reports of continued repression by Beijing of its Muslim population.

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