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The unintended consequences of al-Qaeda is that Palestinians are left with little choice but to seek a reasoned, political solution and win friends among the reasonable and fair-minded. The military option, says MAZENI ALWI, is counterproductive.
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Nearly 30 years on, as one think of Paul Simon's "American Tune", says MAZENI ALWI, the battered soul and shattered dreams refer not to ordinary Americans who lose out in the rat race, but rather to other peoples who counted too much on America's power.
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In standard Islamist political discourse, says MAZENI ALWI, secularism is seen as anti-religion because it removes Islam from any role in the public and political sphere.
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MAZENI ALWI says the Islamic world seems to be torn between religious fundamentalism that is hostile to the west and 'secular' nationalist forces anxious to import and copy the west's material glitter but unwilling to submit to the more positive values that helped shape western civilisation.
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In the second part of his tribute to the late Edward Said, Mazeni Alwi says the sheer range and remarkable depth of the former's expertise, and the passion with which he pursued them, is almost impossible to emulate The world has lost a great teacher, he laments.
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A recent conference paper on HIV/Aids unleashed a storm of fury among Muslims. MAZENI ALWI weighs in with his perspective of what went wrong.
0Freedom and democracy at home, fiefdom and hypocrisy abroad is the American way. However, it is in the country's interest that the hard men in Washington learn that other people too desire liberty, dignity and a decent living.
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The memories that this month stirs are not happy ones for MAZENI ALWI, who revisits events of Aprils of the past.
0Culling from memory and history, MAZENI ALWI makes a plea for retention of the public religious school system which, he says, was formative in shaping the Malay psyche through early education and scholarship.
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