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Modi, Bibi, Trump & liberal order

Mustafa Malik — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:17:09 +0000

Need a new world order that protects autonomous religious and ethnic communities.

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Gaping cracks in liberalism

Mustafa Malik — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:13:40 +0000

“Bernie Sanders won’t beat Hillary” Clinton. And “Jeremy Corbyn probably won’t be Britain’s next prime minister.” All the same, “liberalism is living dangerously,” and you would be wise to “hedge [your] bet” against its demise. After all, “all orders pass away.” I was floored by these year-end thoughts of Ross Douthat, a right-wing columnist for...

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‘Radical Islam,’ Islam, liberalism

Mustafa Malik — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:03:16 +0000

The U.S. Army chief of staff, Gen. Mark Milley, appears to be out of sync with his commander-in-chief on the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The general says ISIS is a product of “radical Islam or militant Islam,” which endangers Western societies based on liberalism. President Obama and his administration...

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Cow, crescent and star

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:34:33 +0000

Published in Middle East Policy, Washington, D.C.; December 5, 2014 Mustafa Malik, an international affairs commentator in Washington, is investigating the impact of Hindu nationalism on liberal values and democratic institutions in his native India. Earlier, he conducted fieldwork on religious movements and nationalist experiments in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent as a...

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Bringing Indian Muslims out from cold

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:16:09 +0000

THE INSTALLATION of India’s Narendra Modi government has triggered concerns among many Indian Muslims. Prime Minister Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) has included in his Cabinet some of the well-known Muslim baiters such as Indresh Kumar and Sadhvi Rithambara. He has given top administrative posts to bureaucrats accused of involvement in anti-Muslim...

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The Hindus outrage Hindus

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:44:23 +0000

"Enlightenment liberalism, as all other ideologies, has emerged from a particular set of historical circumstances of particular societies. It came about mainly a reaction to the omnipresent church’s rigorous rules suppressing the desires, expressions and creativity of everyday Christians. It wasn’t much of a surprise, then, that the ideologues and activists of the Enlightenment avenged the harsh religious repression by banishing religion from the public space."

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Liberal counterrevolution

Mustafa Malik — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:45:07 +0000

The Islamic movements that have been storming much of the Muslim world since the late 1970s is a revolution in progress. I call it Muslim spring.

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Don’t write Brotherhood off too soon

Mustafa Malik — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:20:19 +0000

(Published in The Daily Star, Lebanon, July 16, 2013) Alejandro Jodorowsy said, “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” The French filmmaker’s remark was resoundingly vindicated by Egypt’s liberal elites. They led massive crowds against President Muhammad Mursi and succeeded in getting the all-too-willing army to overthrow his year-old democratically elected government....

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Time to get over anti-Islamist paranoia

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:31:17 +0000

ANDREW J. BACEVICH says “the big story of Muslim self-determination is likely to continue unimpeded” and lead to the rollback of American hegemony over Muslim societies. In his Washington Post piece, the historian recalled that when the British Empire was collapsing, it could turn over its “imperial responsibility” to the United States. But Americans today,...

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The outrage: Revisit free speech

Mustafa Malik — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:00:49 +0000

(Published in the San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 2012) It was a reprehensible crime. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. diplomatic staff members were nurturing excellent U.S.-Libyan relations until they were murdered by a Muslim mob in Benghazi. Many Libyans will fondly remember Stevens’ hard work to implement the U.S. policy to facilitate...

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