Today's date:
 
Summer 1999
• POST GLOBALIZATION
• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007
• MADE IN CHINA
• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY
• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA
• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK
• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD
• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY
• PLANET OF SLUMS
• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
     OF FEAR
• THE OTHER
• POST-NATIONAL
    LITERATURE
• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
    CHANGE?
• THE RISE AND FALL OF
    AMERICA'S SOFT POWER
• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION
• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY
• SCULPTURE AND THE
     NEW SCIENCE
• BIOTECH AND THE
     NEW BABEL
• WAR THROUGH THE
     BACK DOOR
• ANTIAMERICANISM
• THE RISING SOFT POWER
     OF CHINA & INDIA
• THE BUSH DOCTRINE
• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
    WORLD
• AMERICA'S MIGHT
• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• ANTIGLOBOS
• HOT PEACE
• MODUS VIVENDI
• LOOKING NORTH
• FROM WELL HAVING TO
     WELL BEING
• POST-HUMAN HISTORY
• GLOBAPHOBIA
• THE GLOBAL MIND
• AFTER KOSOVO
• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO
• DEGLOBALIZATION?
• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
    [BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA
• BEYOND CAPITALISM
• ASIAN CRISIS
• CHINA: THE ASIAN
     RENAISSANCE
• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL
• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
    PICTURE
• AFTER THE END OF
    HISTORY
• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN
• HALF-A-HEGEMON
• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM
• HEIMAT
• Fall 1987
• Winter 1987
• Spring 1986
• Fall-Winter '84-'85
• Spring 1984


Jefferson vs. Mahathir: How the West Came to This Muslim's Rescue

Munawar A. Anees, a scholar who founded and edited the prestigious Kuala-Lumpu based journal, Periodica Islamica, was released last spring from a Malaysian jail. He had been serving a six-month sentence after being tried for having sexual relations with former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a charge Anees denied, saying it was a part of a set-up to imprison Anwar and remove him from his political life. Anwar has been sentence to six years in prison.

Washington - A large inscription on the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington - "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny upon the mind of man" - had impressed me deeply on my first visit to the United States as a student nearly a quarter of a century ago. With the tears of experience welling in my eyes, I revisited that site recently. My arbitrary arrest and torture in Malaysia had engraved Jefferson's inscription on my heart.

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