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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 […]
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 […]
Public Caning for Close proximity: A Blight on Islam – Islamic Renaissance Front
Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa – 30 December 2024 We read the multiple reports on the public caning of a man over the offence of being in close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex with […]
The fall of the Assad regime – How designated terrorists suddenly became democrats
Osman Softic || 11 December 2024 The Syrian armed rebels led and dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – Committee for the Liberation of Levant (originally known as Al Qaeda- which had later been transformed into Al-Nusra Front), launched […]
Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part II
By Osman Softić || 8 November 2024 One of the most seasoned American experts on the Middle East, retired US ambassador Ryan Crocker, named by former US President George W. Bush as “American Lawrence of Arabia” was completely honest […]
When JAIS rears its ugly head again!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 5 November 2024 We read the story of the arrest of Ustaz Dr Abdullah Yasin by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) three days ago with much consternation. It brings back to memory the arrest […]
