Category: Global Terrorism

On Deoband Fatwa, Jihadi Roots and Terrorism

Excerpts from a great article by Prof Walid Phares, “The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn’t Treat the Jihadi Root” underscoring some of the points I had made in an earlier post (Thanks to Krishen-ji for...

Make no mistake. This is WAR.

In an eerily prescient post a few weeks back, I had written: Our Kurukshetra is approaching fast. The terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore are merely the latest consequences of a mis-guided, half-hearted approach...

Links and extracts for weekend reading

Irfan Husain on how the intelligentsia in Pakistan�is blissfully unaware (or indifferent) to the threat from Taliban Saurav Basu on Amir Khusro and the myth of composite culture and Kapil Sibal on�how the ‘NDA...

When is it OK to shut down a place of worship?

Apparently, when it becomes a training ground for Jihad. Chinese authorities have…closed down 41 “illegal” places of worship (in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province). These places of worship were used as training ground for...

India – Pakistan: Notes from an Island

About two weeks ago,�the Royal Society of Arts in UK, together with�Tehelka, organised a Summit on India and Pakistan in London. It had a stellar line up of speakers and panelists (Jaswant Singh, Farooq Abduallh, Arun Jaitley, Mushahid Husain,...