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Clash versus Dialogue: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Submitted by admin on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 12:38

By Syed M. Islam


2003-5-30


The need for a dialogue between Muslims and the west has been identified. Progress along this need, however, has often been hampered by a pressing challenge: to convert the sometimes-pronounced and mute-at-other times propensity on both sides for a "clash" into one more conducive for a “dialogue.”

Defining Turkey Today

Submitted by admin on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 12:38

Turkey has been in the news lately; occasioned by Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the country, as well as its persistent attempt to join the European Union. Unfortunately, in dealing with the latter subject, not much clear information comes from the mainline news media to help us understand what the implications would be if a 70-million Muslim country became a full member of the EU.

Islam and the Clash of Civilizations

Submitted by M A Khan on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 07:09
Challenging Nobel Laureate Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 thesis that with the fall of Marxist Communism, the world will converge towards nonconflictual liberal-democracy as its final destiny, Samuel Huntington proposed his Civilization Clash theory in 1993. Contradicting Fukuyama’s optimism of a more peaceful world-civilization ahead, Huntington emphasized that conflicts in the world were not over, but future conflicts will be fought along civilizational fault-lines over cultural or religious differences, not between states over ideological (political) or economic reasons.

Huntington's Prophecies: A Tribute to an Outstanding Political Genius

Submitted by M A Khan on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 08:01
Harvard educator Samuel Huntington, the most controversial political scientist of the past two decades, breathed his last on 28 December 2008, aged 81.

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