Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’

Secretary Clinton’s Blunt Words to Pakistan : ‘If You Want to See Your Territory Shrink, That’s Your Choice’

In Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, fashion, pakistan on 29 October 2009 tagged Al Qaeda, al qaida, AP, Asif Ali Zardari, Associated Press, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, Government College of Lahore, Hilary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Husain Haqqani, Indonesia, Lahore, Osama Bin Laden, pakistan, Peshawar, Secretary of State, taliban, terrorism with Comments

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had very choice words for the people of Pakistan, which seemed to be in direct contrast with the Bush Administration who considered Pakistan an ally after the United States began its mission in Afghanistan in 2001.
Clinton held nothing back as she came right out and said that the [...]

Video : Vali Nasr ‘Jihad is Not Good for Business’

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, TV, War, pakistan, religion on 23 September 2009 tagged 1979, Afghanistan, Asia, civil society, Comedy Central, Dictatorship, dubai, Europe, Forces of Fortune, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World, Holocaust Denial, Indonesia, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Islam, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Day, jihad, Jon Stewart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Malaysia, Middle Class, Middle East, Muslim, Muslim World, pakistan, Palestine, qods day, Quds day, Richard Holbrooke, The Daily Show, theocracy, Tufts University, Turkey, United States of America, Vali Nasr with Comments

“It’s so interesting that in the Muslim world the middle class is now rising just as we here in the United States have decided to destroy ours…Our idea was, at least with Iraq. Let‘s completely destroy the society and then they‘ll vote and the middle class will spring up from their love of democracy. Is [...]

A New Kind of Feminism Takes Hold in Afghanistan ‘People Need to be Educated in Values’ of Islam

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, religion on 14 July 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Arab, Bangladesh, civil service commission, Indonesia, Michael Gerson, Rahela Hashim Sidiqi, San Francisco Chronicle, SFgate, Shia Family Law with Comments

One thing I find really interesting about the women’s statements is that they challenge the Taliban notion that women cannot be educated by pointing to other Muslim nations where neither women nor men are denied the right to education. So why then, in Afghanistan, a nation that used to produce female professionals before the endless [...]

Barack Obama Admits Muslim Family Ties : U.S. Not at War With Islam

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, War, pakistan, religion on 6 April 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Ankara, Armenia, Ataturk, Barack Obama, Bosporus, CNN, Digg, EU, European Union, G-20, Guantan, Guantanmo Bay, Halki Seminary, Hedo Turkoglu, Indonesia, International Security Assistance Force, Islam, Istanbul, Kenya, Kosovo, LA Times, Mehmet Okur, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, NATO, pakistan, PKK, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, United Nations Good Offices Mission, Video, War, Youtube with Comments

Speaking from Ankara Turkey today, United States President, Barack Hussein Obama worked hard to move past the “with us or against us” mentality of the past 8 years of United States foreign policy. Obama even went so far as to acknowledge his Muslim father, something that seemed unthinkable during his historic bid for the presidency:
“Let [...]

Clash of Civilizations, Imminent?

In Afghanistan, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Racism, War, india, pakistan, religion on 16 February 2009 tagged Indonesia, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Newsweek Polska, Qatar, Rand Corporation, Samuel P. Huntington, Saudi Arabia, Steven Simon, Sudan, Syria, Tariq Ramadan, The Clash of Civilizations, Theo Van Gogh, Turkey, Umma-itis, ummah, Yemen with Comments

In January 2005, Senior Analyst for the Rand Corporation, Steven Simon argued that though the initial premise of Samuel Huntington’s theory of The Clash of Civilizations, was flawed in its reliance on a notion of homogenous regional identities recent world events could bring Huntington’s words to life:
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of [...]