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26.08.2010 An interview with Parvez Asad Shaikh on Wikileaks, Afghanistan & a possible way ahead

Afghanistan is shrouded in the rhetoric of the ‘war on terror’

(gm). The recent publication of secret documents by the Wikileaks network re-focussed a wider public attention on the issue of Afghanistan, the so called 'Taliban', the killing of non-combattants by allied forces and the changes for any western 'victory' on the Afghan arena of war.

To gain more than just mainstream statements, we spoke with Parvez Asad Sheikh. Sheikh is a young graduate of the South African Dallas College, Cape Town, has travelled the region and has published several papers on geo-strategic and regional issues. more ...

23.06.2010 Birmingham: Interview with the founder of the IFEES, Fazlun Khalid

"What the mainstream NGO's could not do over years we achieved in 24 hours"

(gm) – Prince Charles commended a project in Zanzibar where IFEES [Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences] played a major role, in a speech delivered on Islam and the Environment at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford yesterday under the aegis of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. This project which has received world wide acclaim was the first ever in which environmental ethics derived from the Qur'an was taught. The Zanzibari fishermen stopped dynamiting coral reefs soon after they participated in the first workshop on Islam and Conservation in 1998. more ...

15.06.2010 Interview: Islam and Europe - An interview with Olivier Roy

Is there a "liberal" or "radical" Islam?

gm: In Switzerland, a majority voted for a ban on minarets; in France and in Belgium, the Islamic headscarf is being heavily debated; in Italy the crucifix is coming under fire. And also here in Germany the debate surrounding Muslims is often hysterical. Why do Europeans fear religious symbols or "foreign" religions so much?

The debate in Europe has shifted in some 25 years (a whole generation) between immigration and the visible symbols of Islam. more ...

01.04.2010 Islam in Europe: The second round of Germany's Islam Conference begins in discord

Interview with Abu Bakr Rieger

(gm) Germany’s Islam Conference is entering its second round. What is the history of this Conference?

Abu Bakr Rieger: After being ignored in Germany for several decades, Islam moved suddenly into the spotlight after the terror attacks in New York and became a major theme of German domestic policy. Germany’s Interior Minister Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble recognised a vacuum and convened this Conference as a first means of contact between Muslims and the government. It was an important step which was welcomed by all of the Muslims living in Germany. But there was a catch ....

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01.12.2009 Interview with the President of the EMU Foundation on the Swiss ban on minarets

"Law of exception"

(gm) The referendum in Switzerland on 29 November 2009 and its outcome have moved the public opinion and triggered an intense debate about rights to religious freedom. International organisations like the UN and the OSCE have immediately voiced their concern about the outcome of the referendum. We present an interview with the president of the EMU Foundation in which he expresses his thoughts on the outcome of the referendum.

GM: Dear Mr. more ...

22.10.2009 Jean Ziegler on his book “Der Hass auf den Westen” [The hatred for the West].

“Today the slaveholders are in the stock exchanges”

(gm). The Swiss sociologist and political thinker Jean Ziegler is seen as a critic of globalisation. For decades he has fought against famine and poverty and against those behind the capitalist conditions, which are to blame. For many years he was a Member of the Swiss Bundestag for the Socialist Party in the National Council. Between 2008-2009 he was the UN special correspondent for the right to nutrition. In 2008 he was elected to the advisory committee for the Human Rights Council.

Question: Mr. Ziegler, your book “Der Hass auf den Westen” has just been recently published. more ...

11.09.2009 Interview: Abu Bakr Rieger about money and the financial crisis

"The financial crisis is not in the slightest bit surprising"

Mr Rieger, what do you say about the monumental financial crisis we are now witnessing?

I have to begin by saying that the financial crisis is, for myself as a Muslim, not in the slightest bit surprising. It is not the fault of a few greedy managers, rather it is a systemic crisis. Today’s economic model is based on what one might call the magical reproduction of money, which means we produce mountains of money which no longer has anything to back it, and at the same time we create an unbelievable, systematically growing debt, both nationally and globally. more ...

04.09.2009 Interview: Craig Murray about Pakistan and Afghanistan

"Some terrible people"

(gm) Craig Murray is a human rights activist, writer and former British Ambassador. He is also Rector of the University of Dundee and an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster School of Law. In July 2009, he ran as an independent candidate in the Norwich North bye-election for the seat vacated by the MPs' expenses casualty, Dr Ian Gibson. This interview took place at the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich at the height of his campaign.

gm: Hello Mr. Murray, it's very nice to meet you. more ...

03.06.2009 Interview with a former general on the war in Pakistan

"Taliban militants on the run in Swat Valley area"

(RIAN). RIA Novosti interview with Maj. Gen. (ret.) Jamshed Ayaz Khan, president of the Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad

Question: How do you evaluate the situation in the northwest of Pakistan?

Jamshed Ayaz Khan: Actually, the situation has been very complex in our part of the world because of the menace of terrorism and extremism. An enormous chance was given to these people to surrender their arms, to negotiate, to talk about development in the area, but unfortunately, they didn’t go along. more ...

04.05.2009 Interview with William F. Engdahl

‘Not even Jesus could reverse the decline in the US’

(Russia Today). The world economy is not only showing few signs of recovery, but we are also looking at the end of the American century, according to German author and economist William Engdahl. In an exclusive interview with RT, he highlights the different ways in which the crisis has affected America and Europe and their subsequent responses.

RT: Recently we have seen several American banks beat the forecast and record an increase in profit. So, is the worst now over for the world's economy?

William Engdahl: This is by no means the sign of the end of the crisis. more ...

17.03.2009 Interview with Tiberio Graziani, editor of the "Eurasia magazine"

"US uses Europe as a bridge-head to attack Eurasia"

(Russia Today). The world financial crisis is not just about money though it started on Wall Street, says Tiberio Graziani, editor of Eurasia magazine on geopolitical studies and author of many books on geopolitics. RT spoke to Graziani in Rome.

RT: Governments worldwide are adopting protectionist measures. It affects all levels of society. In Italy we are seeing more support towards right wing anti-immigration policies. more ...

03.03.2009 Interview with the German journalis Michael Thurman (DIE ZEIT). By Yonca Poyraz Dogan

"Turkey is not moving away from the West "

(Zaman.com). Michael Thumann, Middle East bureau chief for the German weekly Die Zeit, has said Turkey is not moving away from the West but rather is pursuing policies in all directions. “It has opened up to its Arab neighbors, plus Iran and Central Asia, and at the same time pursued a rapprochement with the European Union,” he said.

However, he added that there is a lack of clear direction in pursuing such policies and that even though Turkish foreign policy has been successful, there is a need to prioritize. more ...

16.02.2009 Interview with Yury Krupnov, Russian political analyst and the head of the Development movement and the Institute for Demography

"Russia must come back to Afghanistan"

(Russia Today).A coalition of the major world powers can save Afghanistan, believes Yury Krupnov, Russian political analyst and the head of the Development movement and the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development. He has recently visited Afghanistan, where he met the leading politicians and experts from both the government and the opposition.

Yury Krupnov: Afghanistan is now in a state of humanitarian catastrophe. It is enough to say that more than a quarter of its population starves for the second year running. more ...

02.02.2009 Interview with Sinan Oğan, director of the Turkish Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TÜRKSAM). By Yonca Poyraz Dogan

‘Turkey key player in realizing of Nabucco’

(Zaman.com). Sinan Oğan, director of the Turkish Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TÜRKSAM), has said Turkey has a greater role to play in the creation of the Nabucco pipeline project, which is to bring gas from the Caspian region to gas-hungry EU countries via Turkey and Georgia, in view of the fact that the problem of securing gas sources for the pipeline has not been solved yet.

"The Nabucco pipeline can initially work with 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year but, looking ahead, it will need around 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas. more ...

30.01.2009 "Alarming trade deficit". By Vjosa Musliu in Pristina

‘Tariffs Won’t Stop Flood of Imports into Kosovo’

(BRIN). Import barriers and direct subsidies are not the way to correct the alarming trade deficit in Kosovo, the Minister of Trade, Lutfi Zharku, tells Vjosa Musliu.

Q: How was trade in 2008 and do we have a plan to enhance trade in Kosovo products?

A: Trading activity increased during 2008, which is a sign of economic development but we are not satisfied with the trade deficit. The Agency for Investment Promotion has [worked on] mechanisms to promote and increase exports. Fairs and conferences are one way... more ...

12.01.2009 Academic Bacık says Turkey fills vacuum in Middle East

"Most of the regimes in the Middle East have legitimacy problems"

(Zaman.com). Gökhan Bacık, associate professor of international relations at Fatih University, has said Turkey can assume the critical role of talking with the Hamas leadership in the Middle East, where most regimes have legitimacy problems. “There are no leaderships in the Middle East that can take on the Palestinian issue courageously and at the same time remain in power. Only the Turkish leadership can do it,” he said. more ...

29.12.2008 Thalif Deen Interviews U.N. Human Rights Expert Richard Falk

Israel Bars Credible Observers from Gaza

(IPS) The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay last week lambasted the Israeli government for detaining and expelling a human rights expert, Richard Falk, who was on a U.N.-mandated assignment to probe the human rights situation in the occupied territories. "It is difficult to assess Israel’s motives for barring my entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, but it certainly seems to fit with a pattern of minimising to the extent possible, reporting on the realities of the occupation, especially in Gaza," Falk told IPS.

Falk, whose official title is U.N. more ...

05.11.2008 Interview: Zaim Saidi speaks on the impact of the global financial system in his country

"Indonesians are still feeling the effects of the 1997 economic crisis"

Indonesia was hit hard by the financial crisis in 1997, so much so, that its people are still feeling its effects over ten years later. Nowadays, the biggest Muslim country is not just faced with the impact of the recent crisis, but is also entangled in the economic struggle for control between Western interests and a growing Chinese influence. Indonesia’s economy, as in other so-called 'Third World', countries, suffers from the problems of foreign sweatshops, strip-mining and de-forestation. more ...

16.08.2008 Interview with Dr. Conrad Schetter on the Situation in Afghanistan

"No attempt to unterstand Afghanistan"

(gm). Like the seemingly endless Iraq War, the international presence in Afghanistan and the Western armed intervention which preceded it have come to epitomise the period following 11 September 2001. Here in the Hindu Kush, where “democracy is being defended”, not only do worlds seem to be colliding, there have also been a series of developments that elude the usual cut-and-dry definitions. We spoke with political affairs expert Dr. Conrad Schetter, who from his own experience has worked hard to change stereotypes of the situation in Afghanistan. [ABO] more ...

23.06.2008 Globalia Magazine

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On this website you will find a PDF of the current edition together with a text introducing this new exciting project - which intends to shed light on the phenomenon of "globalisation" from a new standpoint. The magazine is aimed in particular at the English speaking global elite – Muslim and non-Muslims alike. more ...

17.03.2008 An interview by Salma El-Gazzar, IslamOnline

Islam and Muslims in Germany

(IOL)Contributing to the political and civil life and being more representative in the media are some issues that German Muslims should work on. Handling the issue of integration, the history of the so-called guest workers in Germany, and many other issues were aroused in our interview with Sulaiman Wilms, chief editor of the German magazine the Islamische Zeitung. Mr. Wilms shared with us his viewpoints as a media professional Muslim in Germany.

Question: It is known that Germany adopted the "guest worker" model that may represent a real obstacle for the integration of minorities. more ...

05.03.2008 Interview with Dr. Abulhay Y. Zalloum about the history of oil and its importance for the 20th century

"Really a war of resources"

(globalia) Abdulhay Y. Zalloum was born in Palestine in 1936 and completed his elementary and secondary education in Jerusalem. In 1954, at the age of 18, he left for the USA to pursue a higher education, and he completed his university education in petroleum engineering, business administration and advanced management at various US institutions including Harvard. He was involved in the oil business for about 50 years in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and he was a consultant for the China National Petroleum Company. more ...

11.11.2007 IZ-Conversation about the current financial system and alternatives offered by the Muslims

Gold, the "Mother of all Money"?

(gm) What do Muslims think about such topics as finance methods, globalization and alternatives to the expected speculative crisis in the worldwide finance markets? Until now we have primarily heard about so-called 'Islamic-Banking', an attempt to create a capitalism with an Islamic face. This is the hot topic which we discussed with Mohamed Abbas. He is responsible for customer relations with e-dinar FZ LLC, a Dubai based internet-firm operating in gold and silver trading. more ...

13.12.2002 Sarajevo: The concept of the mosque

Interview with Professor Kemal Zukic - Architect in Sarajevo

IZ-Online: I would to start by thanking you on behalf of the Islamische Zeitung for this interview Professor Kemal Zukic. Could you please tell us what a little about yourself and how you came work in the field of Architecture?

Zukic: I studied architecture in Sarajevo, I've worked all over the former Yugoslavia as a designer, but not really as a mosque designer, because it was prohibited in the former Yugoslavia to work in the design and construction of mosques. Still I worked on the repair of old mosques during those thirty five years, but that was secretly. more ...

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