A comment on Muslims and terrorism article – Pejamistri:   There is so much wrong in this article, first of all the three questions the writer formulated to show how Trump and others are ‘fear mongering’ stupids despite ‘British Muslim’ community cooperation against terrorism. The three questions are

Muslims suffer as Salafi Extremist Mafia furthers exclusionist hateful ideology – by Agha Shaukat Jafri:   The global Salafi Mafia, which considers itself to be the sole body of adherents of Islamic faith has concocted a perilous policy of not permitting Christians and Jews to either establish a formal place of worship or openly

Growing oppression of women in Muslim societies directly correlated to growth in Islamofascism – by AZ: Much as Islamists term as ‘Islamophobic’ the criticism of many Muslims’ treatment of their women, standing up for Muslim women is the most pro-Muslim thing to do. The women’s rights cataclysm in the Muslim societies has reached a new

العربیہ ٹی وی : سعودی سلفی جہادی کی بیوہ نے بغیر طلاق کے داعش دہشت گرد سے شادی رچا لی: سعودی عرب میں القاعدہ کے انتہائی مطلوب کمانڈر کریم المجاطی کی مراکشی بیوہ فتیحہ المجاطی داعش کے خلیفہ ابو بکر البغدادی کے معاون خصوصی سے نکاح کرنے عراق جا پہنچیں۔ العربیہ ڈاٹ نیٹ کی رپورٹ کے مطابق فتیحہ کا

مخالفت یہود و مخالفت صہیونیت میں فرق کیا ہے ؟ – از عامر حسینی: ایک صاحب ہیں ایلن ہارٹ جوکہ کبهی انڈی پینڈنٹ ٹیلی ویژن نیٹ ورک برطانیہ اور بی بی سی سے وابستہ رہے اور مڈل ایسٹ پر ان کو خاصی مہارت حاصل ہے اور اسرائیلی و فلسطینی قیادتوں کو بہت قریب

Lebanese Sunni cleric Sheikh Maher Hammoud exposes Salafi hypocrisy: Arabs will fight Israel if it’s a Shia entity: Sunni Imam of Al-Quds Mosque in Sidon (Lebanon), Sheikh Maher Hammoud, has claimed that “if you want Arabs to fight Israel, tell them Israel converted to Shi’ism”. Hammoud said: “اذا اردتم للعرب ان يقاتلوا اسرئيل قولوا لهم ان إسرائيل

ہندوستانی سیکولر ازم اور ڈاکٹر خورشید انور -از عامر حسینی: نوٹ:عامر حسینی نے یہ لیکچر ڈاکٹر خورشید انور جوکہ سنٹر فار ڈیموکریسی دہلی کے ڈائریکٹر اور معروف فیمنسٹ و کمیونسٹ دانشور تھے کی یاد میں ہونے والے ایک تعزیتی ریفرنس میں  دیا تھا جو ہم ان کے شکریہ کے

Islam: A Tale of two Sects – by Agha Shaukat Jaferi: The seeds of schism in Islam were sown almost 1400 years ago, immediately after the demise of the Prophet of Islam (pbuh), and the events that ensued witnessed nothing but bloodshed, and destruction within the ranks of Muslims. The

طالبانی فاشزم نے پاکستان کو کئی مذاہب اور قوموں کی شکار گاہ بنا ڈالا ہے: روشنی کے نام سے فیس بک پر بنے پیج پر یہ فوٹو پاکستان میں طالبانی فاشزم کی ہلاکت خیزی کو ظاہر کرتا ہے ،پاکستان میں طالبانی فاشزم جس کی بنیادیں خارجی آئیڈیالوجی پر استوار ہیں اوپر زکر کردہ مذھبی

جاوید چوہدری کا آدھا سچ-میڈیا طالبانی فاشزم کے سامنے سرنگوں نہ ہو: ایکسپریس میڈیا گروپ کے تین کارکنوں کی تحریک طالبان پاکستان کے دھشت گردوں کے ہاتھوں ہلاکت کے بعد ایکسپریس میڈیا گروپ کے اینکر پرسن اور کالم نگار جاوید چودھری کی احسان اللہ احسان سابق ترجمان تحریک طالبان پاکستان سے

فسطائی قبیلہ اور دھشت گردی: نوفسطائی قبیلہ اور دھشت گردی لیل و نہار/عامر حسینی ہمارے ہاں بہت سے ایسے لوگ موجود ہیں جو دھشت گرد تنظیموں کے وجود کے جواز کے لیے اپنے قلم اور زبان کو رواں رکھے ہوئے ہیں-ان کے پاس سوفسطائی

White Paper on Najam Sethi’s Performance as Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab – by Mahpara Qalander: Related post: PM Nawaz Sharif has started attacking free media by banning Pakistan’s popular political blog LUBP Update 6 June 2013: This post has been banned by Pakistan government (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) on the instructions of ex-CM Najam Sethi

Blood-soaked triumph of Islamofascism – by Mahpara Qalandar: As we have been predicting at LUBP, Islamofascism has won as planned. So much blood of liberal elements was spilled under the wink of the Judiciary and the Army that the triumph of pro-Taliban parties like the PML-N and

Islamism & the Far-Right: The Twin Faces of Terror – by Rab Nawaz: Those groups who adopt violence and abandon democracy and dialogue as a means of presenting their demands prove bankrupt on the question of legitimacy of their methods. It is thus exposed that their arguments and reasoning are nothing but

Urdu text of Amn Tehrik’s Peshawar Declaration: A comprehensive strategy to eliminate terrorism: Amn Tehrik (Peace Movement) is an emerging and dynamic movement of concerned individuals and organizations from the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the promotion of peace in the troubled regions of the province. Amn Tehrik has been regularly organising

Who are the Hizb ut-Tahrir? – by Khalid Bilal: Why violent Hiaz ut tehrir is able to publish and distribute these leaflets [on very good quality glazed paper] despite being banned? Why its websites are not banned? If PTCL can ban Baloch websites why not Jihadi websites? Is

Dunya ki tarikh gawah hai: De-realisation of lawyers movement’s anthem: دنیا کی تاریخ گواہ ہے دنیا کی تاریخ گواہ ہے اس عدل کے سنگ جمہور نہ ہوگا یہ حال رہا تو ملک ہمارا وحشت، خوف سے دور نہ ہوگا جوعدل کرے کمزور ادارے جوعدل کرے کمزور اکا ئیاں دنیا

The outspoken Fauzia Wahab denounces religious extremism – by Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times: Pakistani lawmaker briefly trades death threats at home for serenity in Southern California The outspoken Fauzia Wahab denounces religious extremism and reflects on her homeland’s future. It has been a harrowing few months for liberal Pakistani lawmaker Fauzia Wahab.

Opportunism Jamaat-style – by Waseem Altaf: Home and madressah education, knowledge of Arabic, vast study of earlier texts on Islam and almost no exposure to modern education, yet ability to write colorful language, playing with high sounding words and experience in journalism was his qualification.

Punjabi Islamofascist judicial mafia strikes Z.A. Bhutto again!: Related article: Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry: The new monkey in Lahore Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry has been an active member of Jamaat-e-Islami By Omar Khattab in Lahore former CPO Saud Aziz and former SP Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad

Pakistan’s first two militant Islamist groups, Al-Badar and Al-Shams – by Nadeem F. Paracha: Violent ghosts Ever since 2009, the secular Awami League government in Bangladesh has been moving the country’s law enforcing institutions and courts against various members of the Bangladeshi Jamat-i-Islami and other (mostly Deobandi and Salafi) rightist groups. The League

Endless political conspiracies against the PPP – by Riaz Ali Toori: Pakistan’s 64 years of political history has witnessed many upheavals. Sometimes it was overshadowed by military dictators and sometimes it experienced autocracy. None of these systems were part of our base nor were they suggested by the founder of

On Salmaan Taseer’s murder: We, the South Asian people, will never let religious fanatics to decide the destiny of future generations – by Dhirendra Sharma: The Governor of Punjab in Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer, was assassinated by a policeman who fired twenty seven bullets before surrendering himself with a sinister smile to a dozen security policemen around him. The bodyguard was assigned to protect him

Taseer’s murder and Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan: A rebuttal to Prof Shahid Alam – by Badruddin Gowani: I read Professor M. Shahid Alam’s recent article “Pakistan: A political murder or war” (Counterpunch Weekend Edition January 14, 2011) His allegations of the United States role in Pakistan and the corrupt Pakistani establishment that have screwed up the

Why do they pick on us Pakistanis? – by Pervez Hoodbhoy: My green passport requires standing in a separate immigration line once my plane lands at Boston’s Logan airport. The ‘special attention’ from Homeland Security, although polite, adds an extra two to three hours. I belong to the fortunate few who

Is the Koran a constitution? – by Dr. Abbas Zaidi: One of our dearest friends, writer and intellectual Dr. Abbas Zaidi has on the LUBP  team’s request, exclusively written this well argued piece for our readers. I on behalf of LUBP am grateful to him for sharing his efforts with us, and

Rant of the day: The dead parrot: By Dr. Omar Ali Communications from well meaning leftist friends indicate that some of them misunderstand my criticism of Islamism. They seem to think that my objection is primarily moral. That I somehow think orthodox Islam is very uniquely