When is it OK to storm a place of worship?
Several of you must have read the news about storming of the Red Mosque already. See e.g. “Pakistani rebel cleric ‘killed’” and “Beyond the Lal Masjid operation“. My question is: “When is it OK for...
Category: Global Terrorism
Islam’s “uncomfortable truths”
From last week’s The Australian, a great commentary on some of the issues that Islam needs to face up to, by Tanveer Ahmed in Sydney: Islam must face its uncomfortable truths Excerpts (emphasis mine):...
As ye sow, so shall ye reap*
…aka “jaisi karni vaise bharni“. Did anyone else realise the rich irony of “Jihad in Islamabad”? The BBC reports that “Radical Islamist students have shot dead a Pakistani soldier in clashes outside a rebellious mosque...
The “calm” amidst the storm
Following the publication of the latest Index of Failed States by Foreign Policy, India probably has the unique distinction of being the only “stable” country in the world that is “ringed” by failed states...
Wish our PM had said that…
Excerpts from a column by British PM Tony Blair in the Sunday Times recently (May 27, 2007) (emphasis mine): “The absconding of three people on control orders because of suspicion of their involvement in...
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