"Prime Minister Vajpayee should prove his detractors wrong by brushing aside their criticism and move ahead to bring a lasting peace to the region. He must recognize the role that history has cast for him."

"Muslims claim that there are 1.2 billion of them. It is scarcely plausible that so many people would allow such scholarship to pass as knowledge for so long. One's imagination does strain at the thought. Perhaps Bernard Lewis does not really exist. Perhaps he is just an invention of Muslim rage."

:: Poetry ::

"Terrorism is a political concept. One nation's terrorist is another nation's freedom fighter."

"Having witnessed the consequences of a unilateral preemptive foreign and military policy, the collapse of the Middle East peace process, and the decided tilt of the U.S. in support of Israel, American voters want a new approach."

"The US is the world’s sole superpower, and has greater power than any other hegemon has ever had. But the Iraq imbroglio shows that it cannot go it alone, and it cannot ignore the opinions of other governments."

"While Colin Powell mistakenly speaks about "regime remnants" and Saddam loyalists, in reality America faces the beginnings of a modern day Boxer Rebellion."

"For future, OIC should not only play an active role in economic, cultural, political, and scientific development, but also eventually formulate Islamic armed forces capable of deployment in peace and against aggression."