Crescent International Vol. 39, No. 2

Newsmagazine of the Islamic movement

Zafar Bangash, Afeef Khan, Muhammad H. al-'Asi

Rabi' al-Thani, 1431 2010-04


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Developing Just Leadership

Maksud Djavadov

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

Since Russia considers the Caucasus as its soft underbelly from where it might begin to unravel, any Zionist influence on events in the Caucasus will increase Israel’s bargaining power whenever it wants Russia to implement pro-Zionist policies. As cooperation between Iran and Russia increases, it seems Israel will also attempt to increase its influence even beyond Georgia in order to have greater leverage against Russia.​..

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zainab Cheema

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

Notwithstanding the Christian Arabians, the presence of Islam is what rendered the Arab-Israeli a truly horrifying nightmare to the Zionist mind...

Developing Just Leadership

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

It is important to clarify at the outset what Zionism, or to call it by its correct name, political Zionism is not...

Developing Just Leadership

Fahad Ansari

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

For years British Muslims have been pressured by the government, media, think tanks, and even some Muslim community leaders to renounce violence as a means of bringing about change for their communities, both in the UK and abroad...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Tahir Mahmoud

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

“America has the best democracy money can buy,” is not merely a catchy slogan; it accurately captures the essence and nature of US democracy...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Main Stories

Delivering democracy has become the all-purpose justification for every crime perpetrated by Western governments against other people...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editorials

Politicians in the West love to play wedge politics. Picking on the weakest members of society is their favourite ploy but the recent hysteria about niqab — the full facial and body covering, except an opening for the eyes, worn by some Muslim women — is quite out of proportion with what is perceived as a “threat” to Western freedoms and liberties...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editorials

In the 62 years since its creation and numerous wars later, the Zionist entity has engulfed virtually the entire Middle East into flames...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editorials

Among the many skeletons in the Vatican’s vast closet, the one that keeps rattling most frequently is that of child-molesting priests. The most recent revelations involve one Rev. Marcial Maciel Dagellado, the charismatic founder of the Legionaries of Christ, a close ally of the late Pope John Paul II...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editorials

To understand the Arabian regimes’ open alliance with Israel, and open hostility to the Islamic State of Iran, one must consider their origins...

Developing Just Leadership

Iqbal Siddiqui

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Opinion

Britain goes to the polls on May 6, to elect the government that is expected to run the country for the next five years. Unlike most elections in recent years, the contest is genuinely too close for the results to be predicted...

Developing Just Leadership

Abu Dharr

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Opinion

No one really knows the number of pro-Israeli and anti-Islamic forces stationed by the US in and around Arabia

Developing Just Leadership

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 1431

Opinion

The publicly-stated objective of the Washington conference was to collect all loose nuclear material from around the world, and to prevent such material from falling into the hands of “terrorists”.

Developing Just Leadership

Iqbal Siddiqui

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Opinion

Democracy is undoubtedly the most commonplace and widely accepted political concept in the modern world. It is barely an exaggeration to say that it has achieved the status of a universal myth; very few people in the world dare challenge the principles associated with it, and most accept it...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Abu Dharr

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Opinion

As if a meteorological blizzard was not enough during this past winter, Washington is now afflicted by a psychological blizzard. The media mouthpieces are blowing hot and cold — declaiming wildly what an observer would call an arctic chill that is descending upon the political tundra between the Knesset and the White House...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Opinion

The following day while driving back from Islamabad to Peshawar, the news on the car radio startled me: in a communist-led military coup, Sardar Daoud and his entire family had been murdered in Afghanistan...

Ensuring Socio-economic Justice

Iqbal Jassat

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

News & Analysis

Mention EL AL and O.R. Tambo in a single sentence and you are likely to conjure up images of a spooky environment. Perhaps more damning for South Africa, EL AL and Oliver R. Tambo may also symbolize the shaky grounds of a legacy inherited from the ghostly past of apartheid...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

M.A. Shaikh

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

News & Analysis

The question, whether “Somalia’s ‘president’ is a nationalist or agent of Western interventionists” is not an idle one. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was installed as head of Somalia’s powerless interim government (IG) last year, and has been maintained in his dubious position since then by Western countries, their allies, the African Union (AU) and the UN “to fight al-Qaeda in Africa”...

Developing Just Leadership

Zia Sarhadi

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

News & Analysis

Events in Afghanistan are moving so fast that it is often difficult to keep pace. The two-day visit to Islamabad (March 9 and 10) by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai was preceded by two other events: a visit on March 9 to Kabul...

Developing Just Leadership

Javed Zamir

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

News & Analysis

A year after they were banished into the political wilderness, America’s neo-conservatives are back. To show they are serious, they held their political-fest in the very city they love to hate: Washington, DC. From February 18–20, the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC)...

Developing Just Leadership

Zainab Cheema

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

“India is an idea whose time has come,” declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently. The lofty statement, tailor-made for diplomatic conference rooms, suggests that India has emerged as a mature democracy and major nation state on the global stage...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Quraysha Ismail Sooliman

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

In the search for excellence, we often forget the basics because excellence is a prevailing attitude, not an exception. Parents have the most daunting task of all; they are entrusted with the future of their children...

Ensuring Socio-economic Justice

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

The UAE sheikhdom was cobbled together by the British before they left the region in 1971...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

M.A. Shaikh

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

When Chadian President Idriss Deby visited Khartoum in mid-February and was embraced by President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, the event was a great surprise to everyone familiar with the nature of hostility between the two countries...

Developing Just Leadership

Maksud Djavadov

Muharram 19, 1437

Special Reports

However, the secularist block cannot be completely written off, at least at the tactical level...

Developing Just Leadership

Iqbal Siddiqui

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

There is certainly no doubt that Allawi’s success is something of a surprise in terms of the pre-election expectations...

Developing Just Leadership

Dr. Saam Mahdi Torabi

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

To examine the roots of post-election events in Iran from the Iranian perspective, Crescent International invited Dr. Saam Mahdi Torabi to contribute a guest column for this edition...

Ensuring Socio-economic Justice

Tahir Mustafa

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Special Reports

These are not allegations made by America-haters or people who “hate America’s freedoms”, in the infamous words of George Bush...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editor's Desk

In this issue, we take a closer look at Zionist mythology and the true nature of the Zionist State. Several myths have been peddled to camouflage the real character of the colonial settler entity. Wrapped in the messianic notion of God’s promise to the “Chosen People”...

Empowering Weak & Oppressed

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 1431

Editor's Desk

David Frum, George Bush’s former speechwriter, is not the kind of person one would invite to dinner. Like all Zionists, he is arrogant, pushy and full of himself. He coined the infamous phrase “axis of evil” used in Bush’s State of the Union address...

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