islam and struggle in pakistan

When Bhutto rigged the 1977 elections, General Zia ul-Haq had the pretext he needed to organize another military coup, and immediately Islam became the way to legitimize authoritarianism. This time, it was the growing dependence on Saudi aid—Bhutto had pulled Pakistan out of the US-aligned..

revolution and counterrevolution in syria

Though the Assad regime has loudly claimed that ISIS was funded by the Wahhabi Saudi state—part of its ongoing promulgation of a foreign conspiracy, any foreign conspiracy—in actual fact, however, ISIS had maintained a low-level but ongoing war against the House of Saud, regarding that dynasty as craven..

political islam: a marxist analysis

One section of this middle-class bloc consists of the descendants of the mercantile classes of the bazaars and souks, another of the newly wealthy professionals, flush with money from jobs held in various oil-producing countries.22 The international Islamic banking and financial system spearheaded..

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Jewish community of Tehran Rabbi Yunes Hamami hailed the status of religious minorities in Iran, underlining that the Islamic Revolution laid the ground for coexistence among different religions and ethnicities. . . . . Senior Cleric Warns against US-Israel-Saudi..

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