By Shereen Kassem

1st year

Another news flash, all senses are again alert and directed towards the moving images being broadcasted live from the scene of the incident. Since the notorious attack of September 11, 2001 many other international incidents have occurred such as, that of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands on November 2 of this year,his alleged assailant a Muslim, and this have caused tension to rise up between the secular states and its Muslim immigrants. Today, Islam has become a subject of much acute controversy, and discussions all around the world have heated up especially between the Arab world and the West. Furthermore, the Arab world itself has fallen in a deep pit of debates within itself, and has caused people to divide into three groups, those who strongly oppose the western ways, those who strongly support them, and those who...