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Articles of the author Muqtedar Khan
Democracy at the heart of Islamic revival
Newark, Delaware – A few weeks ago, I had the honour of meeting with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi at the Egyptian mission in New York at a gathering for community and intellectual leaders to talk about the future of US-Egypt relations. I am a (...)

05 - 11 - 2012
Decades later, Malcolm X's legacy lives on
NEWARK, Delaware: In February, Americans celebrate Black History Month. It is also during this month in 1965 that Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist, died. His legacy is important for Muslims and non-Muslims (...)

22 - 02 - 2012
Overcoming Islamophobia in US elections
NEWARK, Delaware: Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the country, rising Islamophobia has (...)

07 - 02 - 2012
Muslim Americans most tolerant in United States
NEWARK, Delaware: A superficial study of the media coverage in the past two years conveys a misleading picture about the state of American Muslims and their relationship with the rest of the nation. The terrible attack on Fort Hood by Major Nidal (...)

30 - 08 - 2011
Muslim Americans most tolerant in United States
NEWARK, Delaware: A superficial study of the media coverage in the past two years conveys a misleading picture about the state of American Muslims and their relationship with the rest of the nation. The terrible attack on Fort Hood by Major Nidal (...)

25 - 08 - 2011
Questions for Al-Ghannoushi
The Islamist Al-Nahda Party has emerged as a major player in post-revolutionary Tunisia. But what does it stand for, asks Muqtedar Khan* I was in Tunis last week participating in a conference that brought together the main political viewpoints now (...)

07 - 07 - 2011
Time to turn around worrisome trends in Pakistan
NEWARK, Delaware: Once again the viciousness that haunts Muslim communities has manifested itself in the form of a brutal assassination of the Pakistani Provincial Governor Salman Taseer on Jan. 4. The assassin, Taseer's bodyguard, claimed that he (...)

12 - 01 - 2011
Saudi Grand Mufti uses haj sermon to condemn fanaticism, violence
NEWARK, Delaware: The haj sermon this year – one of the highlights of the three-day pilgrimage that millions of Muslims make to Mecca every year – has received special attention in the media all over the Muslim world. Excerpts from the sermon, which (...)

25 - 11 - 2010
Saudi Grand Mufti uses haj sermon to condemn fanaticism and violence
NEWARK, Delaware: The haj sermon this year — one of the highlights of the three-day pilgrimage that millions of Muslims make to Mecca every year — has received special attention in the media all over the Muslim world. Excerpts from the sermon, which (...)

24 - 11 - 2010
A fatwa against terrorism that might work
NEWARK, Delaware: Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistani Islamic scholar visiting the United Kingdom, recently released a 600-page fatwa, or non-binding opinion in Islamic law, against terrorism. This fatwa might actually have an impact. It is (...)

20 - 03 - 2010
A fatwa against terrorism that might work
NEWARK, Delaware: Dr Tahir ul-Qadri, a Pakistani Islamic scholar visiting the United Kingdom, recently released a 600-page fatwa, or non-binding opinion in Islamic law, against terrorism. This fatwa might actually have an impact. It is (...)

17 - 03 - 2010
Prophet Muhammed's promise to Christians
NEWARK, Delaware: Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 percent of the world. If they lived in peace, we would be halfway to world peace. One small step we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell (...)

23 - 01 - 2010
The Prophet's promise to Christians
Those who seek to foster discord between Islam and Christianity ignore the decrees of the one to whom Islam was divinely revealed, writes Muqtedar Khan* Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 per cent of the world and if they lived in (...)

21 - 01 - 2010
Time for action
Obama has fashioned himself a honeymoon, but it's back-to-work time, warns Muqtedar Khan* That US President Barack Obama has changed the character of the discourse towards the Muslim world is now old news. He conjures themes of reconciliation and (...)

17 - 09 - 2009
The other face of fascism
Lieberman's ascent to power is not only a dilemma for Arabs and the US, but also for the Jewish lobby, writes Muqtedar Khan* "American Jews... are dismayed by Lieberman, mostly because he represents values that we abhor" -- Rabbi Eric Yoffie, (...)

09 - 04 - 2009
Honey, I shrunk Pakistan!
The Taliban are coming, shouts Muqtedar Khan* The Pakistani government has now made a deal with a Taliban group called Tahrik-e- Nafiz Shariat Mohamedi (Movement for the Establishment of Mohamed's Sharia) that ends military conflict between them and (...)

26 - 02 - 2009
America's new foreign policy
The change has been announced, but it is one only of tactics, writes Muqtedar Khan* US Vice-President Joe Biden unveiled America's new foreign policy at the 45th Munich Security Conference this weekend. Events preceding the conference underscored (...)

12 - 02 - 2009
Sending the right signals
Obama's opening moves on the Middle East scene are harbingers of hope and positive change ahead, writes Muqtedar Khan* Barack Hussein Obama's first week as president of the United States has come like a pitcher of fresh water to one who has been (...)

29 - 01 - 2009
Contesting the subtext
Bigotry has made Arab and Muslim a pejorative in the US presidential elections, writes Muqtedar Khan* All men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, (...)

06 - 11 - 2008
America at a crossroads
Obama is the man to lead America forward, writes Muqtedar Khan* As US presidential elections approach, Americans find themselves at a critical crossroads. This election will not only determine who occupies the White House for the next four years, (...)

23 - 10 - 2008
Commentary: Ramadan jihadi-style
While some feign ignorance, Islamist terror is real and a disgrace to all Muslims, writes Muqtedar Khan* Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and serves as a spiritual boot camp for Muslims. In this month, Muslims fast from dawn to (...)

25 - 09 - 2008
Seven years after the 'war on terror'
NEWARK, Delaware: It is seven years since that terrible day of Sept.11, 2001 when terrorists killed 3,000 Americans, triggering a massive global response by the United States. As President Bush's term comes to an end, it is time to assess the (...)

25 - 09 - 2008
Neverending 'war on terror'
11 September 2008 marks the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania Neverending 'war on terror' Terror has increased and America is much weaker since (...)

11 - 09 - 2008
United States and Pakistan: friends in need
NEWARk, Delaware: General Pervez Musharraf's resignation on August 18 brings to an end an era of unprecedented Pakistani cooperation with the United States on foreign policy and security needs. It also marks the beginning of a new negotiation (...)

05 - 09 - 2008
Global musical chairs
The next decade will witness vast changes, key being how the US handles its loss of pre-eminence, writes Muqtedar Khan* We live in a time when rapid change is the norm. We experience more technological, cultural and political transformation in a (...)

14 - 08 - 2008
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