Posts Tagged ‘ummah’

Full Translation of Political Section of Rafsanjani’s Friday Prayer Sermon

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Internet, Iran, Islam, News, Opinion, Palestine, Politics, Twitter, citizenship, pakistan, radio, religion on 18 July 2009 tagged #Iranelection, Afghanistan, Ali Bin Abi-Talib, Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib, Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Bakhtiar, China, Eid-e-Ghadir, Expediency Council, Friday Prayers, Friday Prayers Speech, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Guardian Council, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Informed Comment, Iranian election, Iraq, Islamic Republic, Juan Cole, Kashf ol-mohajjam, Kausar, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Majles, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Mousavi, Mr. Bazargan, pakistan, Palestine, Revolution Council, Seyyed Ibn-Tavus, Supreme Leader, Tehran University, Ulema, ummah with View Comments

The United States Government Open Source Center has translated the political contents of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s Friday Prayers sermon: . . . I will briefly speak about another issue, the killings in China. Muslims in China are experiencing some bitter days. I would like to mention a few points to the Chinese government. [...]

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 View 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 [...]