Articles tagged with: Democracy
Reviewed by Faisal Kutty
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it may be less significant in …
The Ottawa Citizen
Americans viewed the attack of 9/11 as an act of war, and no fair-minded person should blame them for doing so. And because there has never been a war in which even the …
By Seumas Milne
There’s nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From the time of Elizabeth I’s spy chief Francis Walsingham to the legendary agent provocateurs of the years after Waterloo to the …
Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan
By Robert Fisk
Obama and Osama are at last participating in the same narrative. For the US president’s critics – indeed, …
Reviewed By FAISAL KUTTY
Published in The Globe And Mail
Nineteenth-century French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that the relationship between religion and democracy in the West was the “great problem of our time.” While arguably it …
By David Gardner
Publisher: Financial Times
The author discusses the reign of King Hussein of Jordan, believing that the rule of the “West’s favourite benign Arab despot” …
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …
David Smock and Qamar-ul Huda
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Summary
Muslims in general and Muslim leaders particularly have often been severely criticized for not more energetically condemning the violent acts of Muslim extremists.
Violent extremists are on one …
DIALOGUES ON DEFINING ISLAM
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009
Location: West Wing Classroom, 5pm
Welcome, President & Dean of Albany Law School, Thomas Guernsey
“History and Development of Islamic Legal Thought”, Speaker: …
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saeed Malik, a US citizen who is the younger brother of former Pakistan Supreme Bar Association president and lawyers’ movement leader Muneer Malik, says that the Obama Administration should support Pakistan’s …
February 26, 2006
Letters to the Editor
The Globe and Mail
Marvin Kurz contends (The rights of terrorists? What rights? Feb. 25) that terrorists should not have any rights. This ignores some important issues:
1. The Universal …
By Faisal Kutty – Freedom of the Press is a fundamental right in a democracy. Many have fought for and even died for it. Sadly, many continue to die for the simple right to express …
