Global Intifada

I’ve received several complaints from people that I post articles that are too long. For those of you who don’t feel like reading the entire thing or would like some background before delving into it, the following comments are my “cliff notes summary” of this excellent piece by Professor George Saliba.
Professor Saliba has written a […]

This is an excellent article that engages in a critical reading of world history. It challenges many mainstream Eurocentric accounts of history that have unfortunately seeped into the Muslim mind pertaining to the relevance of Islam and capitalism, democracy, science, technology, and Marxism. I think this historical approach is useful to Muslims because it enables […]

Here’s a rough draft of something I’ve been working on. Its incomplete and I have to go back and insert further evidence and proper citation and what not.
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Introduction: Three Weak Theories of American State Action
There are three conventional methodologies of attempting to understand how America behaves as a state: (1) to examine and take […]

Are the Wars on Terror and Iraq truly designed to promote global stability or merely to pursue American interests? Is this expansionism a new phenomenon or merely a manifestation of a pre-existing pathology to control the world at the expense of other peoples?
- Extermination of the Native Americans
- Spanish-American Wars followed by the brutal suppression […]

As you read this post, I would advise that you pop in classic modern rock song “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy.
Got the song on? Okay, now proceed with reading the post.
According to the New York Times, several Western oil companies that were kicked out of Iraq for 36 years during Saddam […]

Here are some questions that I’m currently thinking about. Anyone who answers one gets a cookie. Seriously, if anyone has any sources or theories that can answer one of these questions, it will be greatly appreciated.
1. What is hegemony?
2. Is hegemony relative?
3. What is modernization?
4. Is it possible to modernize without westernizing?
5. What were the […]