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Week in review: Al Qa'eda denounced by Libyan group

  • Jihadist ideology is now under attack from its erstwhile proponents. A Libyan group has issued a new religious document denouncing the tactics used by al Qa'eda as illegal under Islamic law.

Comment

A spiritual analysis of extremism

Jihad Hashim Brown : Westerners need to stop thinking they are celebrities living out pop-modern lives for us on a stage for all their eastern fans to wish they were them.

Your Prophet is your Islam

Omid Safi: Whenever I ask non-Muslims about the Prophet Mohammed: the response is invariably one of deafening silence.

Cold feet as I prepare for journey of a lifetime

Hadeel al Shalchi: By this time next week I hope to be in the final stages of possibly the most challenging duty of my faith – the Haj.

Editorials

An opportunity for all business entrepreneurs

While his classmates were studying finance and engineering at universities abroad, Mohammed Saeed Harib was busy taking drawing courses at a liberal arts university in the United States.

One man’s stand against democracy

They came so close. The new Iraqi electoral law was within hours of being ratified, but at the 11th hour Tariq al Hashemi, the Sunni representative on the country’s presidency council, vetoed it.

Handbags at dawn

The celebrated English cartoonist HM Bateman, who specialised in poking gentle fun at people in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, would have had a field day at Dubai Mall early yesterday.

Arabic news digest

No more room for Arab silence on land grab

After the Israeli minister of interior signed the construction licence for 900 new settlement units in east Jerusalem and the release in Israeli papers of bids for an extra 6,000 units in the West Bank, Arab nations have no more reasons for inaction, wrote Mazen Hammad in the Qatari news daily Al Watan.

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Letters

Brash timing for Israeli settlement expansion

Is it not strange that at a time when the US President Barack Obama is in Asia, the right wing Israeli government informed us that 900 new houses will be built for 3,500 “settlers” in the occupied West Bank?

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Why the historian is wearing flippers

  • Prehistoric European cultures existed along coastlines that have since been reclaimed by the sea. Archaeologists are turning to the ocean floor to join the missing pieces of human civilisation.