A collection of Malik’s writings published in American and overseas newspapers and journals.
Council for Research in Values and PhilosophyChapter XV in the 1996 publication entitled: ‘Civil Society and Social Reconstruction‘ Two-thirds of America’s 5 million Muslims have immigrated from Third World countries during the last three decades. Some American scholars and journalists are concerned that the “Islamic wave” augurs a “culture clash” in this “Judeo-Christian society.”1 Muslims,...
Some Arabs see a ‘double standard’ in American foreign policy The Christian Science MonitorDecember 9, 1996 FBI director Louis J. Freeh went to Saudi Arabia to take a close look at the recently completed Saudi investigation of the Dhahran bombing. Nineteen Americans were killed in that June 25 terrorist blast. When he returned, he would...
THE BALTIMORE SUNOctober 22, 1996 My friend Tom Neumann complains that American news media are distorting the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s stance on the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. Tom is the head of the Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Other supporters of the Israeli prime minister have also assailed American reporters for suggesting that he is trying...
St. Louis Post – DispatchOctober 10, 1996 The Taliban, a pugnacious brand of Islamic revivalists, have taken over government in Afghanistan. As they entered government offices, their followers jeered at the body of former communist President Najibullah hanging from a post overlooking Kabul’s main square. Later they shut down girls’ schools, barred women from outdoor...
Chicago TribuneOctober 9, 1996 The Taliban, a pugnacious brand of Islamic revivalists, have taken over the government in Afghanistan. As they entered government offices, their followers jeered at the body of former Communist President Najibullah hanging from a post overlooking Kabul’s main square. Later, they shut down girls schools, barred women from outdoor jobs and ordered...
St. Louis Post – DispatchJune 11, 1996 The tragic loss of American lives in two terrorist attacks in the Saudi Arabian cities of Dhahran and Riyadh calls for a reassessment of the U.S. Persian Gulf policy based on the social transition taking place in the region. During three tours in the past five years, I...
The Christian Science MonitorJune 5, 1996 Last month India had three governments in as many weeks. Following its worst electoral defeat in history, the secular, centrist Congress Party government yielded power to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which had captured the most seats. But the BJP could not muster the required parliamentary majority and...
Los Angeles TimesJUNE 2, 1996 Over the weekend, India’s 13-day-old Hindu nationalist government was replaced by a coalition of 13 leftist and regional parties after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee failed to assemble a majority in Parliament. The new government has 11 days to produce a working majority. The Indian Parliament today is a large...
Washington Report on Middle East AffairsJune 1994 Early in April, India dispatched a playwright and his actress wife to the United States on a month-long mission to counter American criticism of Indian human rights abuses in Kashmir. Gopal Sharman and Jalabala Vaidya, the couple who produced the Indian movie classic “Ramayana,” brought along a “horror...
Chicago TribuneMay 24, 1990 President Bush’s special envoy, Robert M. Gates, was sent to India and Pakistan to try to ease the mounting tension between the two countries over the uprising in the Himalayan valley of Kashmir. The prospect of another India-Pakistan war has increased since late last month when Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers,...