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What is going on in Syria?
By their very nature, politics are complicated. Middle East politics are the definition of complexity. So, to ask a politician at a dinner party to explain what is going on in Syria is a tough question. What makes it harder is that most people, especially outside the region, don’t know much about its history or appreciate its peculiarity.When the uprising erupted in southern Syria in 2011, it was about local demands. After their children were imprisoned and tortured, Dara tribes demanded their immediate release. In the face of harsh measures against the demonstrators, more people, in different parts of the country, called for human rights and the Emergency Law to be lifted.President Bashar Assad had two options: To give his people what they should have been given in the first place or to...
February 27, 2018

What is going on in Syria?

Lovely trip!
THERE is an important case of great openness to the literature of aesthetic spirituality. The West has an unmatched passion for poetry, words and wisdom of Jalaluddin Al-Rumi and his teacher Shamseddin Tabriz. There is a novel by the Turkish writer Elie Shafak, “Forty Rules of Love,” topping the list of best-selling books around the world translated into more than forty languages, which is based on Al-Roumi’s words.Years before, the American rock and roll stars gravitated toward Nusrat Khan, the famous vocalist known in Pakistan as “Qawwali,” to use his style it and give it another dimension. The novel “A Little Death” by the Saudi writer Mohammed Hassan Alwan that won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in London,...
February 26, 2018

Lovely trip!

Racism against expats
THE worst and a disturbing kind of language is the language of racism, which regrettably is on the increase lately everywhere. What is unfortunate is the disturbing trend is evident here also with many individuals using the cover of the government’s drive to Saudize jobs to spill their poison against expats workers.This is an ill-wind that blows no good, for whatever might be the reason for this jaundiced view of the ‘other’ now, this could over time become self consuming. This, I say, because, in these people’s eyes, everyone else would slowly turn into the ‘other’.An incident, narrated to me by a friend of mine of a situation between a Saudi and a Sudanese national in a shopping place in Madinah, was what led me to broach this subject. All were standing in line when the...
February 26, 2018

Racism against expats

The return of society to moderation
Making things easier is one of the lofty ideals of the religion of Islam. It is the basis for all the rituals that are made obligatory for the faithful. Ease is the opposite of hardship as the Holy Qur’an puts it. “Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship.” The Qur’anic verse related to fasting gives exemption for the sick and those who are traveling from observing fasting on the condition that they have to make it up later. Such concessions are applied to other obligatory rituals as well.Allah has provided ease with every hardship. The Qur’an says in Surah Inshirah: “For indeed, with hardship (will be) ease. Indeed, with hardship (will be) ease.” The Prophet (peace be upon him) never had two choices except that he chose the easier of them. But some...
February 21, 2018

The return of society to moderation

The grass is always greener
Some men just want more. And when they do get it, it’s not at all what they had expected. My friend Yaseen is currently facing such a dilemma. One that he himself created over a year ago. You see Yaseen is a married man...but now he has two wives!Some time ago, Yaseen, a married man with four children, decided that there was some element missing from his life. After some soul searching, he came to the conclusion that the fulfillment he was yearning for would only be satisfied by the addition of another partner. He claimed that he had met someone who elevated his spirits to the wild blue yonderAt the time, he bounced this idea back and forth among his friends. Most were encouraging, although surprisingly enough, none within that close-knit group had been married twice. Yaseen was to be...
February 21, 2018

The grass is always greener

Why Hindutva loves Nehru
Watching Narendra Modi’s recent marathon performance in Parliament had been a surreal experience. Angry, bitter and vengeful, he did not speak like the confident leader of a party that has enjoyed four years of absolute power. It was more like the cynical harangue of a frustrated politician who has spent long years out of power and in ignominy.Modi spoke for nearly 2 ½ hours and much of it was devoted to the Congress, a party that has barely 48 members in Parliament against the staggering 300-plus strength of the ruling BJP+NDA.Modi’s party does not just rule from Delhi, it is in power in 19 states in the length and breadth of the country whereas the grand old party of Gandhi and Nehru’s pedigree has been reduced to a couple of states like Punjab and Karnataka. It’s perhaps the...
February 20, 2018

Why Hindutva loves Nehru

Yemen’s endgame?
“HOW do you see the end of the Yemen War?,” ask many Saudis and Yemenis alike. War is always bad news. War with neighbors is the worst of all. I tell them it is going to end soon. Too good to be true? I beg to disagree, and I have my reasons.Yes, it is never easy to win a war in Yemen. The Egyptians know best. For a decade, they supported a military coup against the 1,000-year-old Zaidi Kingdom. When they went in, 1961, they thought it was a walk in the park. It took Egyptian President, Gamal Abdul Naser, and his generals, eight years to realize their mistake. Up to 70,000 well-trained soldiers, with modern equipment, were unable to defeat mountainous tribes with no more than old rivals and “Janbiah” knives.The interfering foreign power, this time, is Iran. The Arab Coalition is...
February 20, 2018

Yemen’s endgame?

Truth wins!
BARRING the renowned businessman Michael Bloomberg who later became the mayor of New York City, the most important and famous mayor in the history of the great city was Edward Irving Koch. He was known for his very unique management style. He always went to the streets and walked among the people and asked them without any introductions: “What do you think of my performance?” His philosophy and justification for this behavior is that the city’s residents are his “clients” or “customers” and he must know directly and without any intermediary about their satisfaction with his performance, as they are the only one concerned.I remembered all this. I was talking to a distinguished Arab minister who I met recently by chance. The talk was about the administrative methods that must...
February 19, 2018

Truth wins!

Proud to serve the two holy mosques
EVER since the unification of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by its founder King Abdul Aziz, the major focus in the vision and the mission for building the Saudi nation by successive kings was the care of the Two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah. The Kingdom is proud to be the custodian and care taker of the two holy mosques.There is nothing that brings joy to our hearts than to see the millions of pilgrims every year coming to the Kingdom to perform Haj and Umrah. The government, under a direct supervision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, and his brothers before him, cares for the safety and comfort of the guests of the two holy mosques. Billions of riyals is spent every year to ensure a smooth pilgrimage for all visitors while mobilizing all government departments to join...
February 19, 2018

Proud to serve the two holy mosques

Rohingya genocide: Where is the world’s conscience?
We have a right to ask about the so-called world conscience. Is there a real world conscience or is it one moves and aches in accordance with the instructions it receives from its masters?If a world conscience does exist, it has proved that it is not fixed and that it handles issues, individuals and nations with different racial yardsticks. Anyone who observes the stances of various countries, especially world powers, exercising a strong influence in international politics will be aware of this fact. The best example is Myanmar, which has become a hotbed of human rights violations, ethnic cleansing and genocide, as well as the killing of men, raping of women and racial discrimination against the minority Rohingya Muslims. All these atrocities have more than enough potential to stir up even...
February 14, 2018

Rohingya genocide: Where is the world’s conscience?

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