The Sisyphean Task of Rights and Wrongs

Written by Karima Hamdan

Whenever "women’s rights" and "Islam" or "Muslims" are mentioned in the same sentence, one must resist the almost overwhelming desire to run shrieking from the room in a desperate attempt to avoid being caught up in what appears to be some sort of a science fiction-esque time-loop.

Grameen Bank Woes

Written by Muhammad Tahir

"Poverty almost results in disbelief." (Bayhaqi)

"Interest, no matter how abundant it may be, ultimately results in poverty." (Ahmad)

Give loans to the poor so that they can pull themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. Who could argue with that? Certainly not Bono, the Clintons, and ultimately the Nobel Prize Committee. And so it was that a plucky economist from Bangladesh named Muhammad Yunus "invented" micro-credit and set the poor of the world onto the road of wealth and affluence.