Crescent Magazine
Main Stories
Main Stories
Major players rebuff US on Iran sanctions
By Zafar Bangash
Can US leaders — in the executive as well as congressional branches — be considered rational? Almost daily, they threaten to bomb Iran, not to mention the imposed raft of sanctions aimed at undermining the Islamic Republic. The lates...
This month question
Any US/Israeli attack on Iran would be a complete disaster not only for the region but also the entire world.
(18 votes)
Editorials
Thirty-third anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution
Editorials, Zafar Bangash
This month marks the 33rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The US- and Zionist-backed puppet Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) was driven from power by a tidal wave of mass uprising led by the ...
News & Analysis
The crisis in Syria enters a stalemate
By Tahir Mustafa
The crisis in Syria has entered a stalemate with neither side able to deliver a decisive knockout blow. This may serve the regime better than its opponents although it is not for lack of trying by the opposition, especially aided by t...
Opinion
‘Ulama’ in the service of taghut
In his masterpiece, Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali offers the following advice to Muslims: shun those ‘ulama’ that stand as supplicants at the ruler’s door. Instead, seek guidance of those that are visited by the rulers. Imam Ghazali w...
Special Reports
The masses suffer as political theatre grips Pakistan
By Waseem Shehzad
Pakistan’s story is like an unending tragedy in which there are no heroes, only villains. Each tries to outdo the other in how much evil he can perpetrate. It would be worthwhile to identify the villains, both institutional and indiv...
Islamic Movement
The emerging Islamic order and Pakistan
General Mirza Aslam Beg — who is the former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan and currently Chairman of the Islamabad-based NGO, Foundation for Research on International Environment, National Development and Security (FRIENDS) — expresses some of his v...
