Category: Islam & Reform

Weekend Links: Islam, History, Kashmir and AI

Start your weekend with this thought-provoking excerpt from Rethinking Islam, extracted from Ziauddin Sardar’s “Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures” (emphasis mine): …But the violence performed to sacred Muslim concepts is insignificant compared to the...

W’end Links: Nehru, Astrology, History and Obama

Start your weekend with this fascinating article on “Jawaharlal Nehru and Astrology” by K N Rao (Thanks to Sh Krishen Kak for alerting me to this): …Nehru was a Kashmiri pandit, His uncle Bansidhar...

“Learning to Live With Radical Islam” – Excerpts

I somehow missed this article from Fareed Zakaria (it was published more than two months ago). I believe this needs to be discussed and debated thoroughly. Below are some excerpts from “Learning to Live...

On Taliban, English education and Pakistani hypocrisy

Stumbled on this very interesting post by Abbas Zaidi yesterday: Taliban’s hypocrisy is in fact Pakistan’s national trait. Brief excerpts follow. Please note that emphasis (bold) has been added by me. *** Excerpts from...