Religious extremism & fundamentalism & radicalism Archive
I am a Sunni, I think I am – by Ali Lahori: Perhaps I am suffering from a bad case of amnesia. I think my parents told me that I am a Sunni and I was supposed to follow the sunnah of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). My parents taught me to love
لشکر جھنگوی کے دہشت گرد قاری عبدالحئی دیوبندی کی گرفتاری – از حق گو: گزشتہ روز کراچی میں قانون نافذ کرنے والے اداروں کی طرف سے خفیہ اطلا ع پر ہونے والی کاروائی میں لشکر جھنگوی کے سابق صوبائی امیر کی گرفتاری کی خبریں سامنے آرہی ہیں قاری عبدالحئی دیوبندی عرف اسد اللہ بہت سے
Is ISI killing Sunnism – by Ali Lahori: Like many social and biological systems, the success of religious movements is often a function of securing some type of evolutionary advantage. In simpler terms: better ideologies win while inferior ideologies vanish. Moses challenged Pharaoh and staged a rebellion
Terrorism Undettered: Pakistan’s Sipah Sahaba Failure – by A Z: PREFACE The shadowy terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, currently operating as Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ASWJ-LeJ), even though banned by Musharraf in 2002, remains at the heart of Pakistan’s national security crisis. Over the years, SSP has integrated
Pakistan to be Rwanda: Through Ahmed Ludhianvi, Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi’s call for Shia holocaust – by Mahpara Qalandar: Editor’s note: I am at great pain to publish this article. I have always had great regard for Raza Rumi and Najam Sethi. This interview with Ahmed Lidhanvi Deobandi has no news value whatsoever. It does not cross-question any
Takfir: recipe for ‘Halal’ genocide – by Andaleeb Rizvi: Be it Gilgit, Quetta, Parachinar, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, the poison is spreading with no end in sight. For how long till it boils over and burns each and everything is anybody’s guess We live in a cauldron of sectarian
Deobandi militants of ASWJ-LeJ killed Parveen Rehman: AHRC Report: ASWJ/LeJ have turned Pakistan into a mad country: Asian Human Rights Commission’s statement on Parveen Rehman’s assassination PAKISTAN: The Country has gone Mad, No Doubt When a small lady weighing hardly 60 kilograms working for the betterment of poor
Weak state abets radicalization in Pakistan – by AZ: As I read the news about the concerned PML(N) MNA being absolved of land grabbing charges after hundreds of innocent poor Christians’ homes were torched and their belongings looted on his watch, I am painfully reminded of how the
مجرموں کو سزا موت دی جائے – از حق گو: ان تصویروں میں وہ چند مکروہ چہرے یقینی طور پر شناخت کے جا سکتے ہیں…جو ان ہزاروں لوگوں میں شامل تھے جنہوں نے ہمارے مسیح بھایئوں کے گھروں پر حملہ کیا اور ان کی املاک کو جلانے کے ساتھ
Ethan Casey all praise to you for protecting the killers, ASWJ-LEJ-TTP, by not naming them – by Riaz Malik Al Hajjaji: I must commend Good Liberal Ethan Casey for not mentioned ASWJ-LeJ-TTP even once in his article on Pakistani Christains. As for muslims in America, everyone knows how fearful they are of their lives there. In New York City
Laal’s “All Fronts Strategy” to fight extremism – by Taimur Rehman: First and foremost, our strategy should be one of attacking on all fronts simultaneously. In the battle against extremism, there is no magic bullet, no single weapon that will give us victory. We must employ,
Road to death in Pakistan goes via Raiwind – by Mahpara Qalandar: Who lead the mob which burnt down the entire Christian neighborhood of Badami Bagh in Lahore on 9 March 2013? The answer: (i) Riaz Malik, a PML-N leader who is a member of our national parliament and (ii)
اگر ایسا ہوتا…؟ – از پنجابی بابا: یہ اک فرضی قصہ ہے برطانیہ کے اک قصبہ کا جہاں زیادہ تر عیسائی آباد ہیں ان میں سے کچھ گھر مسلمانوں کے ہیں ۔ اس کے مصروف ترین بازار میں ایک عیسئائی پادری کھڑا بائیبل کی چند آیات
Victims of malignant malice: By Azam Inqilabi/ Kashmir Reader New Delhi superciliously bulldozed the democratic political resistance institutions in Kashmir and should not now feel worried about the unpredictable militant bulge in Kashmir. They should try to understand that carnage could
Laal is voice of the oppressed, not a populist movement -by Taimur Rahman: Laal has never worked merely for popularity but always to raise the concern of the oppressed classes. In this new work, which is a collaboration between Laal and El To Somoy (Bengali comrades who have made the video), we
ماں تو ماں ہوتی ہے – از سید فرخ عبّاس: چاہے شیعہ کی ہو یا سنی کی..دو بندی کی ہو یا اهل ا حدیث کی ،عسائی کی ہو یا ہندو کی..عبّاس ٹاؤن میں میں بھی کتنی ایسی ہی ماؤں نے اپنے بچوں کے لئے کیا کیا سوچا ہوگا،ان کے
Omar Waraich should not recycle establishment’s narrative on #ShiaGenocide: Editors note: We are cross posting a fine blog piece by Omar Waraich. It is on point except where Omar Waraich seems to be consuming the establishment narrative of hiding behind politicians to take action. One should ask the
Shia life in Peshawar: from harmony to horror – by Fattu Lohar: The Shia communities in almost every major city in Pakistan have a story of pain and grief to tell. Peshawar is no exception. But the gloom and doom wasn’t there always. Peshawar is perhaps that oldest living city in
Sow hate, reap terrorism: an appreciation of Shezad Roy’s courage – by A Z: I found it encouraging to see Pakistan’s famous singer, Shehzad Roy, talking publicly against the hate content in the country’s text books. The uproar against Mr Roy from the Islamist and the right wing lobbies, including political parties, is
Pakistan’s top Sunni cleric condemns #ShiaGenocide by Takfiri Deobandi militants – by Ali Taj: LUBP appreciates the fair and bold stance on Shia genocide taken by Pakistan’s Grand Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, the top Sunni Brelvi scholar in Pakistan. Mufti Muneeb also applauded the patient behavior of Shia community and scholars who are not resorting to violence or counter
میرا وطن مجھ سے سوال کرتا ہے کہ….. از علی پور کا نیدی: میرا وطن مجھ سے سوال کرتا ہے کہ…. میں کتنی لاشیں اٹھاؤں…….؟؟؟؟ کتنوں کا لہو سمیٹوں……؟؟؟؟ کتنی آہیں سنوں ……..؟؟؟؟ کتنی سسکیاں برداشت کروں……؟؟؟ کتنے درد سہوں ……..؟؟؟ میرا ضبط ہار گیا….. میرا زرہ زرہ اذیتوں کی انتہا
Exposing the lies and fabrication: Al Jazeera’s program on #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan – by A Z: For as long as any of us can remember, in Pakistan we have lived in a world of injustice, ruled by an incestuous elite on an agenda to perpetuate their rule and line their own pockets, while 80 per
شیعہ نسل کشی۔ ایک سچ۔ اور اس کے کیے کیا کیا جا سکتا ہے؟: بحیثیت اشخاص, پیشہ ور اور ایک منظم گروہ کے ہم سب کی ذمہ داری ھے ۔کہ ہم ایک خاموش تماشایی کی بجاے نسل کشی کی دھمکیوں کے خلاف دنیا کے سامنے آواز بلند کریں۔ میں اس نظریہ کو پر
Diversity indicted in Pakistan: the buck stops with President Zardari — by Dr Mohammad Taqi: As to the allegations against the PPP’s legislators, the thousands of Barelvis killed and the Shia genocide in Pakistan, the buck stops with President Asif Ali Zardari Faqeeh e shehr bola badshah se/Barra sangeen mujrim hai yeh aaqa/Isay masloob
The Curse of Apostatizion – by A Z: It is an established fact that apostatization nudges the Muslim sentiments to suppress usual human revulsion to murder. Apsotatization in Muslim societies always leads to mayhem. The objects of apostatization in a Muslim society are deprived of the assurance
A comment on Matthew Green’s (Reuters) report on “Sunni-Shia sectarian violence” in Karachi – by AZ: On this there is absolute unanimity and also utter confusion: everyone agrees journalists must tell the truth. This desire that information we receive be truthful is elemental. Here the journalists’ role becomes very important in filtering out incorrect information
محمد حنیف by کافر کون؟: وسطی پنجاب میں ایک تھا شہر، شہر میں ایک تھا ڈاکٹر، ڈاکٹروں کی تھی ایک تنظیم پاکستان میڈیکل ایسوسی ایشن۔ یہ تنظیم اچھے برے وقتوں میں الیکشن ضرور کرواتی ہے۔ انتخاب ہوئے اور ہمارا ڈاکٹر صدر منتخب ہوا اور
کتنی شرمناک بات ہے – از وسیم الطاف: کتنی شرمناک بات ہے کہ کل آئی ایس پی آر کو یہ وضاحت کرنی پڑی کہ فوج الیکشن کا التوانہیں چاہتی‘ لشکرجھنگوی سمیت کسی گروپ سے اسکے ’روابط‘ نہیں ہیں‘۔ پاک فوج غیر جانبدار ہے اور آئی ایس آئی اپنی حدود اور
“Throw the Shias out of the fold of Islam!” Ansar Abbasi justifies #ShiaGenocide through his column in Jang: Author: Mahpara Qalandar In his column of 21 February 2013 published in Urdu daily Jang, Ansar Abbasi (pro-Taliban journalist) has continued his subtle justification of the Shia genocide at the hands of Takrifi Deobandi groups such as the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
#ShiaGenocide is making the land of the pure more pure: A Comment from Social media By God for the first time in my life I have realized what Bangalis went through in 71 and what it means to be isolated when your government, armed forces and other state actors
Asian Human Rights Commission report on Army-Saudi Arabian nexus behind Shia genocide: The Asian Human Rights Commission strongly protests the murders of members of the Hazaras Shia community. A series of bombings in Hazaras town, Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, claimed many lives, all of them members of the Shia
#ShiaGenocide: African American Muslims express solidarity with Quetta victims – by Ali Taj: On 18 February 2013, African American Muslims of Shia and Sunni sects demonstrated in Los Angeles to condemn Shia genocide taking place in Pakistan at the hands of Saudi-sponsored Al Qaeda affiliated Deobandi militants (ASWJ-LeJ). The protest was led
Killing of Shia doctor Ali Haider and his son in Lahore: the FIR must name Shahbaz Sharif too – by Shazia Najmi: Yet another doctor in the Punjab ruled by Shahbaz Sharif, the Patron-in-Chief of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has fallen along with his 12-year old son (http://tribune.com.pk/story/508975/target-killing-doctor-son-shot-dead-in-lahore/) This reminds one of the spree of 126 Shia doctors killed during the first chief
Contrasting Bangladeshi liberals with Pakistani “liberals” – by Sidq Maqaal: Hundreds of thousands of young protestors are occupying Shahbag junction in Dhaka. They are protesting against radical Islamists. It is indeed very heartening to see masses in a Muslim majority country rallying to the call of secularism, which means
A poem on Shia genocide in Pakistan – by Asif Zaidi: Quetta is filled with screams and blood stained bodies of Shias, yet again. The blind-well of apostatizing and bigoted wickedness wreak havoc, yet again. SHIA GENOCIDE ——————- Genocide acts spurred by bigotry Of sick minds and hatred’s idolatry So
Anti-Taliban Sunni Barelvi cleric slammed by pro-Taliban PCO Chief Justice – by Sidq Maqaal: The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out the petition of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran chief Tahirul Qadri for the reconstitution of the Election Commission of Pakistan, saying that Qadri has failed to satisfy it on his bona fides and fundamental rights
Valentines day, Mullahs and the Liberals / ویلنٹائن ڈے ، ملا، اور لبرل: بہت سارے لبرل پاکستان میں ایسے بیانات دے رہے ہیں جس کو انگریزی میں محاورہ “جھاڑی کے ارد گرد لاٹھی مارنا” ہی بیان کرسکتا ہے. جب سے مولوی حضرات نے کہا کہ ہم ویلنٹائن ڈ ے نا منائیں ،
انوکھا ساجد،انوکھا عابد: وہ دو سال کا تھا جب اس کے دادا کو اس زمانے کے ایک طالب نے زھر سے بجھے خنجر سے حملہ کرکے عین نماز کے وقت قتل کرڈالا تھا-وہ گیارہ سال کا تھا کہ اس کے محبوب تایا
The Shia dilemma: Exploitation by Iran and Genocide by Saudia – by Nadeem Rizvi M.D.: It is sad and extremely disturbing to hear news of Shia genocide in Pakistan without skipping a day. Genocide by Takfiri elements being patronized by so called rouge elements of Pakistan army, right wing politicians, intelligence agencies and Saudia
Coexistence with India: A view from Pakistan: Note: In a recent article published in daily Dawn, Mubarak Haider helps us in understanding the enemy within; and why and how Pakistani establishment has fed this monster for decades. The article published in Dawn is cross-posted below, which