Muhammad Hussain
Muhammad Hussain is a researcher and freelance writer.
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Articles by Muhammad Hussain
February 26, 2009
A compelling new book, a must read, for the accurate and thorough understanding of the theology and history of Islamic Jihad, its ongoing malaise and future scourge.
April 04, 2008
By adopting a Islamic world sponsored resolution to condemn and criminalize blasphemy, the UN Human Rights Council has taken a step, to undermine, not to protect and promote, human rights.
January 08, 2008
I was shocked and saddened as the story of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination suddenly popped up while browsing news at the dead of night on 27 December 2007. She was probably the only one able to put the house in order in Pakistan. Now that she is gone, it can well be the end of salvaging Pakistan from...
December 17, 2007
Mr. Tahir Aslam Gora, driven out of Pakistan for his critical-of-Islam views, wrote in The Hamilton Spectator December 13 that the freedom of expression has deteriorated even in the liberal West from what it was in Mecca during Prophet Muhammad’s time 15 centuries ago. Referring to the example of ho...
November 02, 2007
The media have been abuzz in recent weeks condemning the Islamofascism Awareness Week, held last week in College and University campuses across America. The event was organized by former communist turned conservative activist, David Horowitz, and his Freedom Centre.
This event was marked to creat...
October 12, 2007
Turkey’s ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) nomination of foreign minister Abdullah Gul to country’s presidency to replace a secular incumbent in April set off a political standoff with the secular military. The staunchly secular army, apprehensive that Mr. Gul’s election m...
September 12, 2007
In his latest video message, Osama bin Laden coaxed Americans to accept Islam, in which, he also offered them heavy tax incentive. He said, "There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent" [ABC New Blog]. This huge tax-cut might be very tempting for the...
March 13, 2007
A lot has already been written about the recently held Secular Islam Summit at St. Petersburg (Florida), yet I did not want to miss out on writing a few words about the exciting experience of this unprecedented event. As I am in the middle of writing a book, I was keen to meet up with the prominent ...
January 31, 2007
Warning the world about the dangers of 'radical Islam' by former Islamic terrorists offends Muslims but preaching of extreme hatred and exhortation to violence against the Western people and society by Imams doesn't.
Three former Islamic militants from the Middle East, Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem...
January 19, 2007
The Egyptian-born Australian Mufti Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilaly, who shot into fame by his infamous fasting month sermon in September, 2006, in which he called the unveiled Australian women ‘uncovered meat’. Referring to the case of about 20 incidences of rapes by Muslim youths in a Sydney suburb in 200...
January 08, 2007
Since the Islamist al-Qaeda terrorists orchestrated a daring attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York on the September 11th in 2001, the vocal Muslim community have been in aggressive denial that the crashing WTC towers has nothing to do with Islam. They claim that it was an act of a few d...
December 30, 2006
Within days of Saddam Hussein’s capturing power in Iraq in 1979, he had summoned his top 400 officials and told them there was a plot against him. Saddam coolly puffed a cigar as spelt out the names one after another and to the disbelief of the officials present, they were standing amongst them. Sad...
December 29, 2006
Keith Ellison, the first ever Muslim elected to the US congress on a Democratic Party ticket from the State of Minnesota in the November 7 mid-term elections announced his intention of taking the oath of office placing his hand on Islam's supreme holy book, the Koran, when the new 110th Congress con...
December 25, 2006
[Note to the new readers: Prophet Muhammad initially tried preaching his religion in his hometown, Mecca, for 12 years with little success. He then relocated to Medina in 622 seeing better prospect of success there. He came back to overrun Mecca in 630]
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Against the terrible treatm...
December 14, 2006
Malaysia is deemed a model of modern, secular and multicultural Islamic Nation. Find Out Why.
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During his recent visit to Malaysia, Australian Prime Minister (PM) John Howard told the press that Malaysia was "a great example of a moderate, constructive and competitive Islamic country" and ...
December 08, 2006
For same drug offence, Australian Shane Warne gets one-year ban while Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar walks away innocent. One wonders if 'Islamic Laws' are being applied in cricketing jurisdiction?
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I have been a fanatic fan of cricket over the years. But what is happening to this fine game of...
December 05, 2006
Humanitarian Interventions does not work in Muslim countries. UN's failed Somalia intervention in 1993 should have taught us that lesson.
When the UN-led forces drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan, I was indignant at the United States, like the overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide. Howev...
December 04, 2006
When General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, the first-ever Muslim head of the Thai army, seized power in a bloodless coup on Sept. 19, news media around world became flooded with expert opinions and commentaries that there was a hope of peace in the insurgency-plagued Muslim provinces of southern Thailand. ...
December 02, 2006
Not in Muslim countries. And the reasons lie in fundamental doctrines of Islam.
In the post-9/11 era, the Bush administration's new project of spreading freedom and democracy in the dictators-ruled countries became one of the most discussed and closely followed topics in the media and at levels ...