https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to muammar gaddafi en https://religiondispatches.org/2013/08/15/why-egypt-americas-enemy So what should we do now? Nothing. Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:49:05 EDT Haroon Moghul 4b26bb3a-72fd-4c75-a9a5-e15a91544e11 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/dreaming-beyond-madman-reflections-revolution-libya The tragedy of a dictatorship is that they so eviscerate their countries that, even after they are gone, it’s hard for people to pick up the pieces and move forward. But I am hopeful in seeing the banner of the pre-Qaddafi monarchy rooted in the Sufi orders that led the resistance to colonialism. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:14:28 EDT Haroon Moghul e169135e-ca9e-4df5-8cd8-962348cc13bc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/6-reservations-about-us-intervention-libya I, like many others, have found myself unable to turn away from the Arab revolutions. As a strong believer in the egalitarian nature of the Muslim religion, and a fervent critic of common assumptions that are held about Arabs and Muslims, these revelations were a welcome confirmation of my… Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:46:57 EDT Haroon Moghul ade47b78-818f-46bb-bff5-2f58c1550eab https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/pornographic-war-gazing-why-we-dont-look-away It is easy to blame the war machine or the pornography industry, but the more mundane problem is with our addiction to visual thrills. What some people see as a lack of moral vision (watching a porn video, for example) is perhaps better approached as an amoral astigmatism, a lazy eye, a privileging of the visual over our other evolved senses. The thrill of watching may mingle with compassion for those being harmed, but unless you as a viewer do something to actually alleviate that suffering, you are only a voyeuristic addict, entranced by the power of the gaze. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:37:51 EDT Daniel Martin Varisco a60b11bf-0cfc-49eb-9116-3a6c27fb894a https://religiondispatches.org/2012/03/19/will-video-game-make-sense-qaddafis-death The desire to translate events like Qaddafi’s death into video games is an attempt to simplify complex issues into patterns that we can recognize and make sense of, with predictable rules, defeatable “bad guys,” and the hopeful celebration of an “epic win.” Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:15:42 EDT Rachel Wagner 72151cf5-2860-40f1-98de-ca1710e84cfd https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/27/shariah-islamic-law-misunderstanding-role-islam-libya It’s far more meaningful to ask who is interpreting Shari’ah; think of the argument over ‘what the bible says’ and you begin to get an idea. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:55:36 EDT Haroon Moghul fed8736b-9188-4bfe-b212-153f4e7dc440 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/20/qaddafi-dies-should-it-matter-how Seeing what happened to Qaddafi, it is hard to deny there is not an epic arc of evil rising and consuming itself. Still, those who rage at dictators should also tremble at any tendency in their direction. Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:56:49 EDT Haroon Moghul 3128aac8-5418-4205-8fe0-614707c46f60 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/25/us-envoy-minimizes-mounting-evidence-mass-graves-sudan Amidst escalating calls for intervention from senior UN staff, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and Red Crescent, and widely reported satellite photos of what appear to be mass graves, it looked like the world might be poised to intervene before the U.S. doused those hopes. Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:49:55 EDT Frederick Clarkson ab01d75f-935b-4aab-9708-ee3be74bda44 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/07/libyas-religious-leaders-take-surprising-position It’s your duty as a Muslim to rebel. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:08 EST H.A. Hellyer b95deca2-7851-4d76-a56f-14b1c513bea7