Politics & News

By Ramzy Baroud, Special to Gulf News Published on: 00:01 May 11, 2011 We’ve got him! squealed a waitress as I walked into a coffee shop in Washington state. It took me few moments to realise she was referring to US President Barack Obama’s triumphant declaration of the assassination of …

Commanding His Prophet in the Quran, Almighty Allah says: “And warn them of the Day of regret, as the Command is decreed, and they are in a state of heedlessness, and they do not believe.” (Surah Maryam 19:39) On that day, horrors of unspeakable scale will be seen, no way …

As for the gross misrepresentation of reality, Palestinians have used mass non-violent resistance for generations – as early as the long strike of 1936. Non-violent resistance has been and continues to be the bread and butter of Palestinian moqawama, from the time of British colonialism to the Israeli occupation. At …

Breaking Gaza’s Will: Israel’s Enduring Fantasy – By RAMZY BAROUD 22th of January 2009 My three-year-old son Sammy walked into my room uninvited as I sorted through another batch of fresh photos from Gaza.I was looking for a specific image, one that would humanise Palestinians as living, breathing human beings, …

Any variation of the words “Palestine” and “massacre” are sure to yield millions of results on major search engines on the World Wide Web. These results are largely in reference to hundreds of different dates and events in which numerous Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army or settlers. But …

What A Religion, If Only It Had Strong Men by Muhammad Al-‘Abdah When I hear of the gradual successes of the European countries in establishing a common market, approximating politics and social laws and bringing down barriers of movement and trade, a sense of sorrow overwhelms me. How can this …

The Conversion of the Mongols : The Power of Da’wah – By ‘Allamah Abu ‘l-Hasan ‘Ali al-Nadwi Islam was about to be submerged in the whirlpool of the Mongol ardor of slaughter and destruction, as several Muslim writers had then expressed the fear, wiping it out of existence, but Islam …

On March 11, a 9.0 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan near the city of Sendai. The earthquake generated a massive tsunami with waves as high as 30 feet, immediately resulting in floods, fires and the closure of airports and transit systems. Thousands of people are either dead …

Before I begin, I would like to make a disclaimer that this article deals with the actual laws of Islam, showing that Islam is a simple religion and not burdensome, this does not mean that life will be easy for a practicing Muslim as Allah has promised to test each …

Globalization Unchecked : How Alien Media is Suffocating Real Culture – By  RAMZY BAROUD Source : www.ramzybaroud.net A Muslim family sits across of me in cafe, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, …