Malaysia and Turkey: Old Friends, New Allies?
Both countries are active members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation.
GCC Breakthrough Faces Risk of Relapse as Underlying Tensions Remain
At issue was Qatar’s support for revolutionary forces, especially Sunni Islamists who were making significant gains amid the upheaval, as well as its positive relations with regional powers Iran and Turkey, all of whom Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain felt threatened Gulf interests.
Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics
Following its establishment, Israel has assassinated key Palestinian political leaders, by planting bombs in their cars (writer Ghassan Kanafani); by poisoning them (Wadi Haddad, who is believed to have been assassinated by Israel by a poisoned chocolate bar); by direct shooting (fatal shooting of Islamic Jihad leader, Fathi Shaghaghi, who was gunned down in Cyprus, and Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s supreme leader, who was killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter as he left a mosque on a wheelchair in 2004).
French Youth and the Far-Right: When Will the Culture War Begin?
Read: Islamophobia Is Now a Source of Pride in FranceThe National Rally, in spite of the young Bardella factor, has remained a party of the elderly.
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
The Federation of the Democratic Left (FGD), with two deputies in the House of Representatives that protested, but softly; and two other movements without parliamentary representation, who are still considered as the real opposition parties in Morocco: the Marxists of the Democratic Way, and the Islamists of the powerful association Al Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice and Spirituality).
Sour Candy in the Mouth: US-Turkey Relations
Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks shook the Western world while igniting the processes of Islamophobia, the hawkish transformation of conflict conceptualizations, and the solidified interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
French McCarthyism Targets Muslims in the Name of Republican Values
In a speech on October 2, 2020, President Emmanuel Macron coined the term “Islamic separatism” by stating that the Muslim suburbs, which he described as “ghettos,” have been witnessing a tendency to secede from the Republic.
“Yemenis Are Not Going Hungry, They Are Starving”
The Yemenis have different political agendas: the Houthis want to continue creating an Islamic state while most southerners want to be independent from the north and establish their own state.
Iraq’s Political Sectarianism Has Divided Society In Bloody Fashion
Read: Iraqi Youth No Longer Tolerate Iranian Influence and State Corruption
Iran’s self-proclaimed “Islamic Revolution” that began in 1979 was forcibly confined within Iran’s own borders and the dream of a Shia Islamic state fizzled away in the face of the Iraqi armed forces.
Public Art in the Service of the State: Political Iconography in Iran
In addition to sculptural reliefs with political messages that were produced in pre-Islamic Iran and continued up to the 19th century, and political murals, a new visual movement emerged with political references to the late modern period in Iran.
Can Muslims Reclaim a Unified Political Bloc on the International Stage?
ithin a context of international Islamophobia and the persecution of Muslim populations in many countries, it has become more and more commonplace amongst Muslims to lament the lack of unity in the ummah, the global community of believers.
What Drives Pakistan on the Recognition of Israel: The Arab Gulf, India, or the Pakistanis?
Perhaps the most concrete manifestation of the depth of this relationship was the appointment of General Raheel Sharif, ex-chief of the Pakistan Army, as the first commander-in-chief of the Saudi-led “Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition,” which has 41 countries as members.
103 Years since Jerusalem’s Capture: Britain Is Responsible for the Plight of the Palestinians
Britain has a greater obligation than any other western country to safeguard Palestinian rights, hold Israel to account, and show…
Has the Libyan Civil War Come to an End?
While able to come together to combat existential threats like the so-called "Islamic State" or Haftar's advance on Tripoli, they tend to fight amongst themselves and against the Government when not under imminent danger.
Will Biden Upend the Controversial US-UAE Arms Deal?
Read: Islam in the UAE’s Foreign Policy
Biden, a UAE-Friendly president?
To be sure, the US Senate’s votes against blocking this massive arms deal constituted a major victory for the UAE.
How Will Antony Blinken Handle US Foreign Policy on Syria, Turkey and Yemen?
This muddled policy, which consisted of laying down “red lines” against the use of chemical weapons that were crossed by Assad without consequence, an ineffectual $1 billion program run by the CIA to arm and train Syrian rebels, and direct armed intervention against the Islamic State and other groups, helped the Assad regime reassert control over much of the country and made a mockery of Obama’s early call for regime change.
“Trumpism was an aberrational swing of the political pendulum to the extreme right”: Interview with Poka Laenui
Trump's ilk will not completely disappear from the US, but they have always been there under different names such as racist, Islamophobic, fascist, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Proud Boys, and so on.
With Biden’s Win, Saudi Arabia Is Now More Desperate to Appease Israel
Read: Islam in the UAE’s Foreign Policy
Even UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed’s close subcontractor and former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan was quick to call Biden’s win a “positive development that limits the extreme risks of the Trump-Netanyahu alliance.
Muslim American Votes Were More Anti-Trump than Pro-Biden
Islamophobia in its rawest form was on display in the very onset of his presidency from the announcement of the Muslim Ban on immigrants coming from Muslim-majority countries to halting assistance to Syrian refugees to valorizing the death of Muslim prisoners “dipped in pigs’ blood.
Trump Lost But Trumpism Thrives
Despite everything over the past five years since Trump announced his candidacy--his mocking of people with disabilities; his virulent anti-Black and anti-Latino racism, xenophobia, misogyny, Islamophobia, and antisemitism; his praise of authoritarians and rejection of democratic allies; his obstruction of justice and his solicitation of foreign government intervention in his reelection effort; his bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic which has now infected more than 10 million people in the United States and killed more than 250,000; his congenital lying, pomposity, braggadocio, bullying, buffoonery, sloth, incompetence, and ignorance--despite all of this and so many other blatant disqualifications to be president, the most perturbing aspect of this election is that more than 71 million people witnessed all of this and decided they wanted more.
