The Case For Remaining In The EU: Editorial

Featured image: EU Referendum ballot paper; courtesy of startups.co.uk The EU referendum is at the doorstep. Never before this referendum has proven to be more divisive and controversial across all spectrum. British Muslims being no exception. Unsurprisingly, the two contrasting decisions of whether to remain in the EU or to leave the EU have been …

Russia and the current crises: There needs to be consistency on sanction polices | Ismail Y Syed

Given the current crises being faced by Ukraine and recent annexation of its territory Crimea by Russia, there has been extensive discussion on what steps needs to be taken to deal with the current crises. Sanctions came on top of the list and the issue was compared with Iran under the sanctions. Many authors argued either for comprehensive set of sanctions or for useless set of sanctions with limited effect on Russia yet implicitly justifying for such sanctions to remain in place for Iran or at least remaining silent as seen from the recent article by Lee S. Wolosky in Foreign Affairs, 19 March 2014. I tried explaining in my comment that such inconsistency in the policy as well as when it comes to dealing with the countries concerned only fuels further grievances that can only explode into further threat. Best way to contain the threat is being consistent with the policy rather than showing half hearted action that reflects indecisiveness.