Religious extremism & fundamentalism & radicalism Archive
Of Boston and Quetta – by Ali Lahori: The American response to the Boston bombing provides a powerful example of how national tragedies should be handled. The entire nation came together to commiserate and support the victims. All of the key government agencies mobilized to find the
Turkistan Islamic Party releases video of children in training: The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group, has released a video that shows young children firing weapons while at a training camp in Pakistan. The video was released by Islami Awazi, a propaganda arm of the Turkistan
Terrorists contesting elections to scar democracy – by Sadiq Ameen: The campaign workers of the SSP and some other sectarian parties in the fertile agricultural heartland of Pakistan must be thrilled that Election Commission and the courts have not barred any of their dreaded leaders from contesting in the
Shia blood continues to be spilled even in the time of election – By Mahpara Qalandar: Yesterday’s suicide bomb blast near Alamdar Road in Quetta killed eight men including two security personnel. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has once again proudly owned up to its misdeed. Khaliq Hazara’s supporters were too quick to say that he was
Institutional decay!: Pakistan is a country suffering from within and outside, but mostly from within, and with years of ineffective governance and complete breakdown of law and order, it comes as no surprise that the society has lost its moral compass,
طالب زدہ ….قسط 7: یہ قسط شروع کرنے سے پہلے آپ تمام دوستوں سے معذرت خواہ ہوں کہ بہت لیٹ پوسٹ کی، جس کی ایک وجہ تو شروع کے ایک ہفتہ میں میرا اکاونٹ بلاک ہوگیا تھا اور دوسری مجبوری کام میں کچھ
How American Muslims can respond to Boston – by Asra Q. Nomani: Editor’s note: Cross posting short excerpts from a brilliant article by Asra Nomani in the Daily Beast. “What these statements ignore is the existence of an interpretation of Islam—strains of ideologies with names like Wahhabi, Salafi, and Deobandi—that do
Salafist inspired Boston Marathon bombing – by Ale Natiq and Ali Taj: Boston Bombings, Islamist Militancy and Muslim… by alexpressed All Salafis Wahhabis and Takfiri Deobandis are not bad people but 95 percent of all terror acts (by Muslims) are from this group. All fruits are not bad but bad fruit
Response to Peter Bergen’s CNN article on Boston marathon bombings – by Ali Rizvi: Editor’s note : This article is a response to Peter Bergen’s article in CNN an highlights an alternative view of the media frenzy about the Boston Marathon blasts. More than a hundred people are dead to global terrorism in the past seven
طالب زدہ …..قسط 6: اب باری ہے ان وجوہات کو بیان کرنے کی جس کی وجہ سے میں نے جہادی یا مذہبی راستے سے کنارہ کشی اختیار کی_ وہ وجوہات تو میں پہلے بیان کر چکا ہوں کہ میں کیوں جہاد کرنے کشمیر
Filmistan: Here and there – by Waseem Altaf: Pakistan’s film industry shares a common culture with Indian film world. However, as Bollywood (inclusive of regional films) occupies a center stage on the international film scene, Lollywood is history; Bollywood was the largest producer of films in the
PK-69 Tank: Gullana Bibi withdraws from election race following security threats – by Zulfiqar Ali: People inspect damages resulting from the attack on the house of Pakistan Peoples Party’s NA-1 candidate, Zulfiqar Afghani. As the polls draw closer, militants have increasingly targeted election candidates. PHOTO: INP DI KHAN: Gullana Bibi, 62, stepped down as an
پیپلز پارٹی کسی بھی دہشتگرد سے اتحاد نہیں کر سکتی ، پیپلز پارٹی کے ذمہ داران – از حق گو: گزشتہ دنوں پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کے امید وار قطب شاہ اور دیوبندی تکفیری دہشتگرد لدھیانوی کے درمیان ہونے والی ایک ” اتفاقیہ ” ملاقات کو لے کر سوشل میڈیا پر پیپلز پارٹی کو سخت تنقید کا نشانہ بنایا گیا-نواز
LUBP condemns the cowardly terrorist attacks on Boston marathon and stands in solidarity with the victims: LUBP unequivocally condemns the horrific bomb blasts that have left three people killed and over 98 injured in Boston (based on news reports like this http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/15/177349725/two-explosions-rock-boston-marathon-finish-line-at-least-3-dead-dozens-injured) As a blogzine that focuses primarily on Pakistan, we are all too familiar
ECP said political parties must not campaign against any personor on the basis of religion – by Iftikhar A.Khan: ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) warned candidates on Sunday against seeking votes in the name of religion or sect. Briefing reporters on the rules of the game for May 11 polls, a senior ECP official said political
Pakistan Warms up to Elections Amidst Killings and Death Threats – by A Z: The elections scheduled for May have brought a degree of excitement and hope to a country that has witnessed a descent into violence and terrorism accompanied by economic woes over the past few years. Campaign posters, with the candidates’
طالب زدہ -قسط ٣: میں اگر دوبارہ سے یہ قسط آپ سب کا شکریہ ادا نہ کر کے شروع کروں تو بہت زیادتی ہوگی کیونکہ ان تین دنوں میں جتنی محبتیں آپ سے ملی ہیں ، پوری تیس سالہ زندگی میں اتنا اخلاص نہیں دیکھا
اپیل بنام چیف الیکشن کمشنر : دہشت گردوں کو انتخابات میں حصّہ لینے سے روکا جائے – از مہ پارہ قلندر – مترجم – حق گو: اپیل بنام چیف الیکشن کمشن محترم جناب جسٹس رٹائرڈ فخر الدین جی ابراہیم صاحب جناب عالی اب جبکہ کے الیکشن کا اپنے وقت پر انعقاد آپ کی بھرپور کوششوں سے یقینی ہو چکا ہے تو آپ کے نوٹس میں
طالب زدہ -قسط ٢: قسط شروع کرنے سے پہلے تو آپ سب کا شکریہ کس منہ سے ادا کروں؟ نہیں پتا-پچھلی قسط میں مختصر تعارف ہوا تھا اور علاقے کے خد و خال پی تھوڑی بہت بات ہوئی تھی، اب آتے ہیں ان
Welcome to New Pakistan! -by Sidq Maqaal: (This piece is written as a sequel to “Articles 62/63 or Fundamentalism On The March?” by A Z https://lubpak.com/archives/257673) Waqas Akram, Abida Hussain, Faysal Saleh Hayat, Jamshed Dasti, and Ayaz Amir have been among those disqualified. MQM is being
طالب زدہ – قسط ١: میری سمجھ میں نہیں آ رہا کہ میں کیا لکھوں ؟کہاں سے شروع کروں؟کیسے شروع کروں؟کیا،کہاں اور کیسے لکھوں؟ کیونکہ آج تک کسی بھی حوالے سے کوئی بھی چیز کسی طور بھی ذاتی حیثیت سے نہیں لکھی لیکن بہرحال آغاز
A Pakistani paradigm shift may be in order: A step forward in an election year – by Rusty Walker: Your true liberty, you, as a person living in a nation of a diversified people, can only be assured personal freedoms through a massive election turn-out, bent on a
Thank you, CM Najam Sethi: PML-N-led mob targets Christian locality in Gujranwala: Sunni (deobandi) Muslim mob targets Christian locality in Gujranwala ‘for disrespecting Islam’ Related post: Najam Sethi and others continue to obfuscate the truth while nearly 200 Christian homes burn – by Ali Taj Sethi-Rumi minions exonerate Deobandi militants from
I’m a sinner because I am left-handed – by Khurram Butt: Things you do or don’t or should or shouldn’t span the halal, mubah, mustahab, wajib, makruh, haraam kaleidoscope I eat with the left hand – always have, always will. I can’t help it! It’s called being “left-handed”, though mercifully
Motives behind the Shia massacres in Pakistan: PressTV report: While we are talking to each other, there is an old mother sitting in the corner of her house; silently weeping the death of her young son, there is a weak and helpless father struggling to earn some money
Much needed honesty on Takfiri Deobandi militants!: Few months back before the Abbas Town Massacre we had couple of political parties namely JUI(F) & ANP hold two different APCs to demand that government of Pakistan negotiate with the TTP. The news media which primarily is dominated
Genocide by Deobandi Taliban: the Nazis of Pakistan – by Chris Emmanuel Dsouza: As the world was keenly waiting for the white smoke to appear on the Vatican House Chimney, Joseph Colony in Lahore was filled with black smoke. When Vatican Council was wrapping-up their Papal Elections, its followers were attacked and
تکفیری دیوبندی دہشت گردوں کے خود کش حملے میں سترہ سیکورٹی اہلکار شہید: پاکستان کے قبائلی علاقے شمالی وزیرستان میں فوجی حکام کے مطابق سکیورٹی چیک پوسٹ پر ہونے والے خودکش حملے میں سترہ سکیورٹی اہلکار ہلاک ہو گئے ہیں۔ اس سے پہلے سنیچر کو حکام نے چیک پوسٹ پر حملے میں
The white legend of Pakistan’s creation : teaching fake history to children – by A Z: PREFACE: So much has been written by much better people about the fallacy and inaccuracy of the history taught in Pakistan’s curricula that I can hardly add any dimension or wisdom to it. But let’s try and address the
Pakistan: a nation out of rage — by Syed Kamran Hashmi: Deadliest among all of them, appears in the form of a false claim, “We respect all religions.” No, we don’t, it is untrue For most people, outrage can be defined as an ‘extremely strong reaction of anger, shock
Children of a lesser god : Prof Sibte Jafar – by Abbas Nasir: A college principal, Prof Sibte Jafar, who was riding home on a rickety motorcycle, was slowing down at a speed breaker when waiting (Takfiri deobandi) killers fired at him. His grievous injuries took his life probably even before the
Pakistan military’s half hearted war against terrorism – by Ali Lahori: Dawn, Pakistan’s English Daily, recently reported a news item with the headline “Decision at top brass meeting: War on Terror will go on: Says Military” http://dawn.com/2013/03/20/decision-at-top-brass-meeting-war-on-terror-will-go-on-says-military/. The title, the picture, and the content of the news item were hilarious. Here is
PPP leads the march of folly – by A Z: I am sorry to have borrowed Barbara Tuchman’s axiom in a much lesser context. There has been much talk recently about PMLN’s overt or covert electoral accommodation of ASWJ. However, deplorable as it may be, it does not really
Of a Muslim and a Jew — by Zeeba T. Hashmi: you bring me to the creed not defined by my spirit but what surrounds is a world of empty hearts, with calculated minds what more can we design? save the want of the heart. in contradiction
A dying society: The more I read from young Pakistanis on social media, the more I wonder how in the world they did this to us. Such inability to think critically is not easy to acquire, and yet countless have acquired it.
Pakistani voters must reject those parties and candidates that have ties with ASWJ-LeJ terrorists: Editor’s note: Voting is a very important decision. LUBP urges its readers to encourage moderate Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and all other communities to collectively vote against those parties and candidates that have any ties with or support of Takfiri
آل سعود اور تاریخی اسلامی مقامات کی منہدمی– از حق گو: سعودی اتھارٹی نے ایک بار پھر اپنے انتہائی کونٹرو رشل منصوبے (اسلامی تاریخی مقامات میں توسیح) جو کہ بلین پاؤنڈز کی لاگت کا .ہے اس کو پھر سے شروع کر چکی ہے اس منصوبے کے تحت مسجد حرام کے
A sequel to ‘Why Do We Cosy Up to These Wahhabi Tyrants?’ – by A Z: OMG, what was she thinking? Camilla, wife of our future king, wore a flimsy, unsecured headscarf on her trip to Saudi Arabia. It rebelliously slipped off and almost uncovered all her hair! According to the strict, conservative Saudi Wahhabi
Sharifs want to ride two boats while Ludhianvi fears sinking ship — by Xain Gardezi: Politics is a strange phenomenon to say the least. Arch rivals may suddenly find blood brothers among themselves and old friends can be used a scapegoat fairly easily to let rot. It is of course no surprise than that