Opinion & Features
American Political Opportunism and Washington’s Long Overdue Genocide Determination
Maung Zarni || 2 April 2022 On March 21, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced a (Rohingya) “genocide determination.” The U.S. decision was largely welcomed by Rohingya survivors. Myanmar is a signatory to the interstate treaty Convention on […]
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni || 15th March 2022 I have never been to either Petro’s Ukraine or Putin’s Russia. But the news of Putin’s conscript Russian army launching a full-scale invasion – deeply unpopular with the Russian people at home as […]
Is Bosnia-Herzegovina Next on Russia’s Radar?
Could the vulnerable Balkan state become Vladimir Putin’s next target? Emir Hadzikadunic || March 12, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised fears among many Bosnians that their vulnerable state could also become a target. Like Ukraine and Georgia, both now […]
Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Chandra Muzaffar | 28th February 2022 The mainstream Western media is almost unanimous in demanding that Russia and Vladimir Putin stop their military operation in Ukraine immediately. This in their opinion is the only solution to the current conflict. […]
Macron’s colonial nostalgia: anti-Muslim Islamic project
ISTANBUL In yet another Islamophobic measure, the French regime is set to establish a new body to manage the largest Muslim population in the European Union: The Forum of Islam in France. This forum will consist of people selected by […]
The Consequences of Speaking Out Against Religious Illiberalism in Malaysia
Anyone who can liberate the Malay Muslim mind is a dangerous threat. That is why the authorities had to censure Mustafa Akyol. They detained him, interrogated him and made his immediate future uncertain. –Mariam Mokhtar, Malaysian journalist, Oct 2017 […]
Navigating through four types of Malay Muslims in Malaysia
Prof Dr. Mohd Tajuddin Mohd Rasdi || 25th January 2022 A few months after PH’s historic win in GE14, I wrote about how Islam will be the new battleground in Malaysia. All the issues of Malay supremacy will pale […]
Turkey should avoid return to ‘assertive secularism’ after Erdoğan
Ahmet Kuru || 22 Nov 2021 Ahmet Kuru, a political science professor at San Diego State University, has long established himself as one of the leading scholars of secularism and Islam. His landmark 2009 book, Secularism and State Policies toward […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Tragedy: Failure of Indian Secularism
Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid | 12nd November 2021 For political philosophers, the term ‘social contract’ will be familiar as the title of a book published in 1762 by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Whether effected in the real or hypothetical realm, as […]
HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN
Chandra Muzaffar | 28th August 2021 The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get on to jam-packed aeroplanes […]
