Jummah mubarak, you ‘kafir’! – Ale Natiq: Last Friday, nearly 150 Shias were killed and 400 wounded in triple suicide blasts that targeted the Shia community during the Friday congregational prayers in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. ISIS/ISIL claimed responsibility of the attack and a statement released
Fasaad Fi sabilillah? – Murtaza Haider: It could have been just another ordinary patient arriving at an eye clinic for treatment. Abdul Rauf, a 20-something resident of Badami Bagh Lahore, took his father to Dr. Ali Haider’s clinic. A delay at the clinic ticked
Deobandi extremists in the UK – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It could be a millenarian crisis or a delayed reaction to decades of bad history, but millions of Muslims seem to have turned inwards, hankering for an imagined golden age. They are contemptuous of modernity’s bendable, ductile values. Some
The News: Nexus of Deobandi terror outfits strikes again: Police suspect the involvement of the nexus between the Taliban, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the Jundullah and other terrorist outfits, which is already responsible for several sectarian attacks, in the bomb attack on a Bohra community mosque in Arambagh on
The Islamic State arrives in Pakistan: Since the beginning of 2015 Pakistan’s press, both printed and electronic, together with independent blogs, have been reporting with increasing frequency the spread of the Islamic State’s (IS) influence on Pakistani territory. Both the intelligence services of the USA
Perverse Pontification by Friedman of the NY Times: It is not just his selective, hypocritical and trite appropriation of other people’s bad ideas and analysis that endears Tom to the everyday douchebag. It his also the ability to switch comfortably between false humility and braggadocio while never
سراج الحق، ایم کیو ایم اور منافقت – خرم زکی: جماعت اسلامی پاکستان کا رہنما سراج الحق دیوبندی ایم کیو ایم کے کارکنوں کے اعترافی بیانات پر ایم کیو ایم کے خلاف پابندی کا مطالبہ کرتا ہے لیکن یہی سراج الحق دیوبندی پہلے سے ہی کالعدم دہشتگرد گروہ اہل
Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz – by Ani Zonneveld: in this letter, Ani Zonneveld has correctly identified the major source of extremism, bigotry, intolerance and misogyny in the Muslim world. Instead of using vague and obfuscatory terminology like “Islamist”, she has correctly highlighted Saudi Wahabism as a major
Pakistan warns Turkey: Don’t make our mistakes: As Turkey was discussing the training and equipping of Syrian opposition militants in Turkey, Pakistan recalled its own painful experiences. In Islamabad, Al-Monitor asked Mushahid Hussein, the chairman of the Pakistani Senate’s Defense Committee, about his country’s role in Afghanistan and in
صدام حسین کی قبر اور لاش کے ساتھ داعش کا سلوک: صدام حسین نے ہمیشہ عراق کے شیعہ مسلمانوں اور لبرل سنی کرد مسلمانوں کے ساتھ حقیرانہ اور ظالمانہ سلوک کیا اور متعصب سنی اور سلفی عرب قبائل کو سنی کردوں اور شیعہ عربوں کے خلاف استعمال کیا – آج
Attractions of the Islamic State – Ayaz Amir: Here is something for the Pakistani privilegentsia to consider. Something like the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham – Isis or Daish – would have catastrophic consequences for them, putting an end to their privileged lifestyles or forcing them
دہشتگردوں کا نیٹ ورک، جو آنکھوں سے اوجھل ہے: اسلام ٹائمز: پہلے سیاسی جماعتوں یا سیاسی شخصیات جو کام کرائے کے قاتلوں سے کرواتی تھیں، جہاد افغانستان کے بعد سے یہ کام جہاد کے نام پہ منظم ہونے والے دہشت گردوں کے مختلف گروپ انجام دے رہے ہیں۔