Opinion & Features

92 articles in Opinion & Features

Islam and Institutional Religious Freedom

July 7, 2021

Ahmet T. Kuru || 7 July 2021   In July 2019, Pew Research Center published a report on religious restrictions around the world. Although Muslim-majority countries constitute only about a quarter of all cases examined in the report, they constitute […]

US, NATO and the Question of Russia

June 1, 2021

By Emir Hadzikadunic || June 1, 2021   Are the US and its allies misguided in their apprehension of Russia’s power projection in Europe? If the question of a rising China and its possible collision with the United States is a central […]

OUR HUMANITY ; OUR IDENTITY

May 2, 2021

Chandra Muzaffar | 1st May 2021.   Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at this point. To […]

SYRIA : THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE

March 22, 2021

Chandra Muzaffar || 22 March 2021 Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the United States of America has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults and acts of political […]

Magellan, Inquisition and Globalisation

March 16, 2021

Felice Noelle Rodriguez & Jomo Kwame Sundaram || 16 March 2021 KUALA LUMPUR: Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection and trade, but […]

WINNING VOTES THROUGH IDENTITY POLITICS

February 5, 2021

According to official estimates, Donald J. Trump obtained a little more than 74 million votes in the November 2020 presidential election losing to Joseph Biden who secured a little more than 81 million votes. Biden won by a comfortable margin […]

Leadership Manoeuvres : The Real Reason

January 12, 2021

Chandra Muzaffar || 12th January 2021.   Why is it that in spite of increasing Covid 19 infections, rising fatalities, massive floods in a number of states and serious economic challenges, some politicians are still indulging in political machinations and […]

25 Years On, The Dayton Peace Agreement Is a Ticking Time Bomb

November 21, 2020

Throughout Danis Tanovic’s Oscar-winning film “No Man’s Land,” a viewer waits distressingly for the bouncing mine to explode below the body of Cera, an injured Bosnian soldier lying in a trench. The last moments of this antiwar satire do not […]

The Paradox Between Shoe Diagram and Sound Mind

November 18, 2020

Muhammad Irwan Ariffin || 18 November 2020 I am appalled when I read the statement issued by the Mufti of the Federal Territory on the issue of using the diagram of the Prophet’s shoe to invoke the blessings of Allah […]

Déjà Vu In France: Change Attitudes

November 2, 2020

Chandra Muzaffar || 1 November 2020   As events unfold in France centring around Islamophobia, there is a feeling of déjà vu. We have witnessed a few times before this sequence of events. There is some provocation or other targeting […]

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