Download Al-Attas’s ‘Islam and Secularism’ from here About the Author Syed Muhammad al Naquib bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Muhsin al Attas (born September 5, 1931) is a prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia. He is one of the few contemporary scholars who is thoroughly rooted in the traditional Islamic sciences and […]
The U.S. Marine Corps released a sergeant Friday whose murder conviction was overturned in a major blow to the military’s prosecution of Iraq war crimes. Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, of Plymouth, Mass., walked out of the brig at the Marine Corps Miramar Air Station in San Diego after having served more than half of his
The new Egyptian president has formed a committee of legal experts to propose amendments to the country’s constitution, which states that the nation must be governed by the principles of Islamic law. On Saturday, Adly Mahmoud Mansour named the 10-member committee — six judges and four constitutional law professors — that will propose amendments to
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Egyptian security forces have stormed the office of Iran’s al-Alam Arabic-language news channel in the capital city, Cairo, confiscating equipment, Press TV reports. Egyptian forces also arrested Ahmad al-Sioufi, who serves as the Cairo bureau chief for the station, on Saturday and refused to provide any explanation for their acts. Egypt’s military-led authorities have shut
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by Pam Bailey and Medea Benjamin No matter who is president or which party rules in Egypt, the Palestinians of Gaza pay the price when turmoil reins. It unfortunately has become a truism that when Egypt sneezes, Gaza catches a cold. Fearful of the “terrorist elements” automatically associated with Hamas, the governing party in Gaza,
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Former US President Jimmy Carter lambasted US intelligence methods as undemocratic and described Edward Snowden’s NSA leak as “beneficial” for the country. Carter lashed out at the US political system when the issue of the previously top-secret NSA surveillance program was touched upon at the Atlantic Bridge meeting on Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia. “America has
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By Ramesh Thakur Western countries occupy almost all powerful and big-budget posts in the organisation, and sadly developing countries, despite their numbers, have allowed the bias to persist Ask it quietly, but ask it we must. Is the United Nations racist, either deliberately or unconsciously? Many years ago, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello,
