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Nuclear Threat Looms Large in the Himalayas Roof of the World as India and Pakistan may be on the Brink of War – Part IV
Osman Softić || 18 May 2025 New Delhi’s narrative The political leadership of Kashmiri Muslims, and that of Muslims in India more broadly, has evidently and uncritically accepted New Delhi’s official narrative and does not dare to question the […]
Nuclear Threat Looms Large in the Himalayas Roof of the World as India and Pakistan may be on the Brink of War – Part III
Osman Softić ||12 May 2025 The Pashtun and Balochistan separatist movements Tilak Devasher, a former India’s high-level mandarin in the realm of security and regional affairs with vast experience in regional relations, and one of India’s most respected experts […]
Nuclear Threat Looms Large in the Himalayas Roof of the World as India and Pakistan May be on the Brink of War – Part II
Osman Softić ||9 May 2025 The Indian Overreaction However, the initial reactions of the Indian government have crossed the line of normalcy, and instead of pursuing the attackers, India is resorting to collective punishment of the innocent Kashmiri population, […]
NUCLEAR THREAT LOOMS LARGE IN THE HIMALAYAS ROOF OF THE WORLD AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN MAY BE ON THE BRINK OF WAR – Part I
Osman Softić ||5 May 2025 The terrorist attack which took place on April 22, 2025 in the Baisaran valley near Pahalgam, a serene mountain resort in the Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir took the lives of 26 innocent tourists from […]
Uranian Kepada Buku Islam, Autoritarianisme, dan Kemunduran Bangsa yang diharamkan oleh MKI
Waleed Fekry Faris || 28 Mac 2025 Perbahasan tentang kemunduran dalam dunia Islam telahpun semarak sejak dari 200 tahun yang lampau dengan kedatangan kuasa-kuasa kolonialisme ke dunia Islam. Namun begitu, ia kekal sebagai perbahasan yang agak dangkal antara kedua-dua […]
Uraian “Golongan Muslim Pertama: Sejarah dan Memori yang diharamkan oleh MKI
Ahmad Nabil Amir || 28 Mac 2025 Golongan Muslim Pertama: Sejarah dan Memori ini membawa kita meninjau dan menjejaki sïrah dan praktik generasi Islam pertama yang terlakar dalam sejarahnya yang terawal. Di sinilah bertemu lakaran penting tentang tradisi perjuangan yang […]
INTERNATIONAL AL QUDS DAY – The last Friday of every Ramadan
Osman Softic || 27 March 2025 Tomorrow, the last Friday of Ramadan 1446, we commemorate International Al-Quds Day. The uniquely important Day of Solidarity of the Muslim Ummah around the world with Al-Quds, the Holy Land of Palestine, and by […]
Why is Europe Opposed to Peace in Ukraine while Washington is pursuing Rapprochement and Normalization with Russia? – Part II
Osman Softić || 25 March 2025 From Trump’s perspective, a continuation of America’s support for Ukraine in its war effort is not only a waste of money and equipment but it also causes disproportionate damage that Washington suffers compared […]
MKI: Sebuah Penghinaan terhadap Kebebasan Berekspresi – Kenyataan daripada Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) berkenaan pengharaman buku oleh MKI
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 23 Mac 2025 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Kami merujuk kepada kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia (MKI) bertarikh 20 Mac 2025. Dua buku terjemahan Bahasa Melayu yang diterbitkan oleh […]
MKI: An Affront to Freedom of Expression – Statement by the Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) on the books banned by MKI ||
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 23 March 2025 We refer to the statement issued by Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia (MKI) dated 20 March 2025. Two books published by the IRF namely the Malay translation of Ahmet […]
Why is Europe Opposed to Peace in Ukraine while Washington is pursuing Rapprochement and Normalization with Russia? -Part I
Osman Softić || 17 March 2025 US President Donald Trump, his unconventional maverick personality notwithstanding, and his rather peculiar undiplomatic ways of conducting statecraft that markedly deviated from conventional norms and even logic itself, (especially due to his disturbing rhetoric […]
Decoding Western Moral Dissonance – Part II
By Osman Softic || 21 February 2025 The political intricacies This fact ought to be kept in mind when reflecting on complexities and internal intricacies that plague the Palestinian question. Mahmoud Abbas has recently signed a decree to end […]
Decoding Western Moral Dissonance – Part I
By Osman Softic || 19 February 2025 The entire global community was outraged by irrational and offensive bluster the US president Donald Trump uttered when he boasted with a brilliant idea for reinventing Gaza’s dystopian future, which he apparently […]
Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian III
Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 3 Februari 2025 Agama, nasionalisme dan populisme di seluruh dunia Pakatan baru yang muncul antara kelompok agama dan nasionalis adalah tidak terbatas kepada dunia Muslim semata-mata – ia merupakan kecenderungan […]
Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian II
Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 27 Januari 2025 Kebangkitan Islamisme Tahun 1979 ditandai dengan sebuah momen penting bagi kebangkitan Islamisme di serata dunia Muslim, yang digerakkan oleh tiga peristiwa penting. Di Iran, Revolusi telah mendirikan […]
Islamisme dan Nasionalisme: Bagaimana Musuh Lama Menjadi Sekutu Baru? – Bahagian I
Oleh: Ahmet T. Kuru Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham || 23 Januari 2025 Abstrak Dari segi sejarah, agama dan nasionalisme merupakan dua kutub yang bertentangan di kebanyakan negara. Namun begitu, kebelakangan ini agama dan nasionalisme mula bersatu sebagai sebahagian daripada […]
HAMAS-Israel Ceasefire Deal: Strategic Victory for the Resistance but a Long Way Ahead for a Lasting Peace
By Osman Softić || 20 January 2025 The Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal finally began to come into force on January 20. 2025. after many failed attempts by negotiators, under the auspices of Qatar, Egypt and the US, to reach a […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part III
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 January 2025 Asad’s Qur’ānic Hermeneutics “The Most Gracious has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]. He has created man: He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech” [Sura ar-Rahmān; 55:1-4] (Asad, 2013, p. 986) […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part II
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 8 January 2025 Asad’s odyssey across the Muslim world In early summer of 1924, Muhammad Asad was on the move again. He travelled to Amman, to Damascus, Tripoli and Aleppo, to Baghdad and to the […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part I
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 2 Januari 2025 Abstract This paper focuses on one of the most famous modern Muslim scholars: Muhammad Asad. He was born as a Jew by the name of Leopold Weiss in the year 1900. In […]
