Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Morocco
 Berlin Wall crumbled down in 1989, but many have been planted here and there to serve the same purpose: widening gaps between communities and nations, and thus making the job for those who try to find ways for dialogue and co-existence on this planet called Earth more tiresome and more demanding.
Since words like ‘dialogue, peace, respect, co-existence, etc. ‘ are present in man’s language, they are then able to be seen materialized in the real world. It just needs strenuous efforts and wise minds behind it to push it forward. It should not be understood as too romantic or too dreamy; that is out of my orbit at the moment. I am not a man who dreams of Plato’s utopia world either. Such a world is not made for this particular life and planet. However, there are always ways of rapprochement.
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Mohammed Hashas - AlJazeeraTalk - Oujda, Morocco
- What difference do you make between vision and mission?
- I raised my hand and said: for mission I would say it is the job you feel you have to accomplish in life, while vision is the way you think would help you realize that mission; it is the way you feel most appropriate to make your mission come true.
Exactly.
It all started in a cloudy morning when, accompanied with a close friend, I had to sit what optional units to choose for my first third MA semester. While waiting for a professor in the Arabic department, one of our ex-teachers appeared, a nice man in fact, and had a short morning talk. I asked him if he had a class to teach, the class I would attend soon and enjoy indeed, for it was a real good pep talk the students had that morning. The sociable professor did such warming up talk last year with my group too, and here he is doing a similar thing. |
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THE TRIUMPH OF MODERATE ISLAMISTS
Sondos Asem - AljazeeraTalk - Cairo
 A de facto phenomenon in world politics since the early twentieth century till our present day has been the constant conflict between an Extremist Secularist political current and a Moderate Islamist one. Turkey and Egypt have simultaneously witnessed the conflict in question, each in his own way. Secularist powers in both countries have led a violent struggle to eradicate an ever-growing Islamist trend, in Turkey to preserve the principles of the so-called laïcité (Atatürk's version of Secularism), and in Egypt to smother the Muslim Brotherhood, thus preventing a moderate Islamist movement from approaching political life. While doing this, Secularists have openly declared their complete disengagement with the mainstay of democracy and human freedoms– the once-avowed tenets of Secularism.
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Hashmat Moslih - AlJazeeraTalk
 The events in occupied Palestine where a democratically elected government was prevented from taking office is a major victory for Al Qaeda. It presses home Al Qaeda’s doctrine that democracy and dialogue are not the right way of dealing with Western governments and their allies.
In his last video message, Ayman al-Zawahiri addressed Hamas and warned of the "secular people of the Palestinian Authority who have sold Palestine…" and told them to stay clear of "the political game of the Americans."
For Al Qaeda, the pursuit of a Muslim government through a democratic process is like fighting the enemy on their terms and conditions. They argue that democratic processes are traps designed by the West and that Muslims must stay away from them. Democracy is used to disarm and pacify Muslims and economic means are used to move in and make the kill.
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Hashmat Moslih - AlJazeeraTalk
11th of September is a gruesome celebration of a gruesome act, committed by the leaders of the western civilization; it is the celebration of the death of logic. Logic died when the western leaders demanded that the occupied must provide security for the occupier. In such an environment of world order, attacks like that of 11th of September are inevitable and nothing is going to prevent it. Humanity has reached a deadlock; war is the only path in resuscitating “reason” and “logic’. What happened to “reason” and “logic” and where enlightenment is, are questions which can only be answered by analysing the roots of the political psychology of our era. An honest analysis of the guiding political psychology of our times will lead us to the answer of the most heart aching question amongst the western population in general and USA in particular, “why do they hate us”?
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