America’s Quest for a New Moral Bedrock: A Muslim Perspective
Council for Research in Values and PhilosophyChapter XV in the 1996 publication entitled: ‘Civil Society and Social Reconstruction‘ Two-thirds of America’s 5 million Muslims have immigrated from Third World countries during the last three decades. Some American scholars and journalists are concerned that the “Islamic wave” augurs a “culture clash” in this “Judeo-Christian society.”1 Muslims, […]
In Gulf, US Wants the Oil But Not the Responsibility
Some Arabs see a ‘double standard’ in American foreign policy The Christian Science MonitorDecember 9, 1996 FBI director Louis J. Freeh went to Saudi Arabia to take a close look at the recently completed Saudi investigation of the Dhahran bombing. Nineteen Americans were killed in that June 25 terrorist blast. When he returned, he would […]
The rising visibility of Muslims in America
THE BALTIMORE SUNOctober 22, 1996 My friend Tom Neumann complains that American news media are distorting the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. Tom is the head of the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Other supporters of the Israeli prime minister have also assailed American reporters for suggesting that he is trying […]
India’s Political Reality: ‘Market Economy, Stupid
The Christian Science MonitorJune 5, 1996 Last month India had three governments in as many weeks. Following its worst electoral defeat in history, the secular, centrist Congress Party government yielded power to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which had captured the most seats. But the BJP could not muster the required parliamentary majority and […]
Filmmakers Defend India’s Viewpoint on Kashmir
Washington Report on Middle East AffairsJune 1994 Early in April, India dispatched a playwright and his actress wife to the United States on a month-long mission to counter American criticism of Indian human rights abuses in Kashmir. Gopal Sharman and Jalabala Vaidya, the couple who produced the Indian movie classic “Ramayana,” brought along a “horror […]
An old dispute shadows Benazir Bhutto’s U.S. visit
Chicago TribuneJune 6, 1989 In December, 1971, Ambassador George Bush ran into Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir at UN headquarters in New York. Learning that the young woman was attending Harvard, Bush gave her his calling card. “My son is up at Harvard, too,” he said. “Call me if you ever […]
Pakistan’s Future: Do The Generals Know The Perils?
Chicago TribuneAugust 29, 1988 The new Pakistani government has started off on a reassuring note. Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has pledged to go ahead with the parliamentary elections scheduled by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who died in a plane crash. Ishaq Khan has not declared martial law, which he could have done. More important, […]
