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Will Turkey get booted out of NATO?

Mustafa Malik — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 06:48:24 +0000

America’s festering run-ins with Turkey over Kurdish militants in northern Syria appear to be coming to a boiling point. Ankara has given two weeks to the militants they brand “terrorists” to clear three northern Syrian towns on the Turkish border. If they don’t, the Turks probably will launch a ground operation to chase them out...

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Gandhi: Greatest martyr for Muslims in India

Mustafa Malik — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:56:20 +0000

WHEN INDIAN PRIME Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, was extolling Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as one of India’s national heroes, Mahatma Gandhi’s soul must have responded, “I forgive you, Vinayak!” In 1965 an inquiry commission was set up under the former Indian Supreme Court Justice Jiwan Lal Kapoor to investigate the Gandhi assassination....

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Why can’t Iran get the feel for nukes?

Mustafa Malik — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:27:18 +0000

THE TALKS TO revive the Iran nuclear deal will resume “soon …within an acceptable period of time,” Joseph Borrell has announced. The deal was about curbing Iran’s nuclear program in return for lifting U.S. and U.N. sanctions on that country. Borrell, the European Union foreign policy chief, had been coordinating negotiations between the last Iranian...

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Taliban spur anti-hegemonic struggles

Mustafa Malik — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:27:00 +0000

AS AMERICA FLEES Afghanistan under the Taliban gun, I am wondering how far west Asian Muslim societies are from ridding themselves of Western hegemony. At an intellectual level, the global Muslim struggle against Western hegemony began in Afghanistan in the 1860s with Jamaluddin al-Afghani prodding King Dost Muhammad to oppose the British colonial power. By...

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Arab Spring 2 gearing up

Mustafa Malik — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:45:46 +0000

I WAS BUSY for two days getting ready to celebrate Eid al-Adha at my ancestral home in the Bangladeshi village of Mujahid Khani. And look what I missed. “President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria on Saturday, after officially winning 95.1% of the vote in an election,” the...

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Ehtiopia’s nationalist journey

Mustafa Malik — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:40:46 +0000

Ethiopia’s liberal Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been assured a second term in office as his ruling Prosperity Party has won the federal parliamentary election by a landslide, capturing 410 of 436 seats. Elections to about a fifth of the seats have been delayed because of Covid-19, logistical problems and, in the case of Tigray...

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Pakistan could be in U.S. doghouse

Mustafa Malik — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 06:00:23 +0000

PAKISTAN’S REFUSAL TO allow a CIA base in its territory has pissed off the Biden administration. The Americans also resent Pakistan’s close ties to China, their global adversary. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that, given Pakistani Muslims’ bitterness toward the United States, allowing Americans a base for hostile operations in Muslim Afghanistan would...

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Liberal democracy derails

Mustafa Malik — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:13:11 +0000

LIBERAL DEMOCRACY ISN’T serving Americans very well, not, at any rate, in their well-being. Nicholas Kristoff is making the point poignantly. America’s “greatest threat,” writes the Pulitzer-winning New York Times columnist, isn’t Communist China or authoritarian Russia “but our underperformance at home.” Kristoff cites data from several surveys to support his argument. Fifteen-year-old American kids...

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Joe Biden’s valued ‘autocrat’

Mustafa Malik — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:02:24 +0000

SEVERAL NEWS OUTLETS have lauded President Biden’s meeting on Monday with Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “upbeat.” Have you been following Biden’s comments about Turkey and its president? In April he riled up the entire Turkish nation by labeling the 1915 Armenian tragedy Turkish “genocide.” Earlier he called the Turkish president an “autocrat,” proposed to support...

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Bennett to stick with apartheid?

Mustafa Malik — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:58:50 +0000

THE SWEARING-IN of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the leader of Israel’s pseudo-fascist Yamina party, and his Cabinet inaugurates an era for Israel without Benjamin Netanyahu in power. Many Israelis think that this chimera of an ultra-rightist-centrist-liberal-Arab government is going to crumble soon over policy differences. If it doesn’t, what kind of an era that Bennett...

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