The author contends that like health care reform, the handling of the Afghan war is emerging as another threat to Obama's leadership. more>

The author contends that the war in Iraq is becoming a quagmire, making it increasingly difficult for the Bush administration to decide whether to extend the stay of U.S. forces in Iraq or to withdraw them. more>

According to the author, while many undocumented Pakistanis – most of them the bread earners in their families – have been deported to Pakistan, many Pakistani-American leaders have been busy welcoming and entertaining Indian film actors or vying for photo-ops for themselves in the media. more>

While the Bush administration focused on war in Iraq and others on natural disasters last year, the author contends that other countries will remember 2005 as the year of women’s rights and power, with the election of several women as heads of state. Will the United States join their ranks in 2008 with Hillary and Condi? more>

The 300 immigrant families who make up Jersey City’s Pakistan Colony lived through a night of fear on December 28, 2005 when, community activists say, agents in plainclothes and unmarked vehicles monitored the Colony’s mosque. more>

The sayings of Prophet Mohammad and other stories of Muslim conquests and wars were excised from Pakistan’s new academic curriculum for 11th Graders, and replaced by stories about President Bush as a great leader. Is this a new low for Pakistani leaders? more>

While French President Jacques Chirac, addressing the nation, promised that his government would provide justice, equal rights and opportunity to all its citizens without any discrimination, the writer says that the French Muslims know only too well that they would hardly get respect and justice. more>

On August 5, 2005, Charles Frahm, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's New York counterterrorism division, visited a mosque in Brooklyn and joined leaders of the Pakistani community in a declaration of mutual respect and abhorrence of terrorism. more>

The author notes that, post-9/11, he no longer notices Muslim names in public posts. He feels that Muslims in the U.S. will follow the fate of Native Americans and disappear. more>

Even wars can be won with the help of media in today’s world. The media first presents the government’s plans to the public, then, by providing one-sided information, it makes the case to the public to believe in these plans. The writer warns we should examine the media’s portrayal of Iran. more>

As the United States plans to shut down military bases in the country, the government seems to be unmindful of the hazardous effects of the U.S. military bases overseas on the lives of millions of people. more>

The writer objects to the resolution passed by the National Assembly (Pakistan’s lower house of parliament) denouncing a controversial cartoon from The Washington Times that portrays Pakistan as a dog, petted by a U.S. soldier. Is this pet love or national derision? more>

The influential preacher, Pat Robertson, has said on television that Muslims should not be appointed to important positions in the U.S. government because they don’t believe in God. It appears that religious ‘gangsterism’ is not limited to Pakistan. more>

According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said the United States should have the option of attacking Pakistan’s and Iran’s nuclear arsenals with missiles, because both the countries have nuclear weapons. The Muslim and Pakistani communities are in shock, while Obama insists his statement were distorted and taken out of context. more>

Gang violence has reached Jersey City’s affluent “Pakistani Colony.” This has gone unnoticed by many parents, who are too busy making more money. more>

At a Chicago college presentation, Pakistani poet Iftikhar Naseem encountered a student wearing a Hijab, who turned the conversation of poetry into politics. The author reflects on Islamic religion, secular America and the complex effect on Muslim youth. more>

There is a change in the air. The word immigrant no longer only evokes feelings of despair, humiliation, and an incommunicable feeling of civic isolation. Instead we are learning to associate the word with the great march of civil rights in this country. more>

Many would point to Amina Wadud, a woman who led a Islamic prayer service on March 18, as an example of a “liberated” woman in an “enlightened” Islam. These labels, however, are ultimately used to define Islamic practices as essentially repressive toward women compared to supposedly non-sexist western notions of gender. Faiq Siddiqui argues that this is hypocritical given the reality of sexism even in “liberated” societies. more>