Are Secularism and Islam Incompatible?
Yasser Latif Hamdani Oct 31, 2003 interacts: 482Ever since, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk abolished the Khilafat and separated Church from state, a great debate has raged in the Islamic world. Perhaps no where
Why is the West so angry with Dr. Mahathir?
Karamatullah K Ghori Oct 28, 2003 interacts: 234It looks as if the intrepid Mahathir, known for speaking his mind fearlessly, has disturbed a hornet’s nest in many a western capital.
Religion without Science is Blind
Mohammad Gill Oct 26, 2003 interacts: 48Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind -- Albert Einstein
Pervez Hoodbhoy-Paul Kurtz correspondence
Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 13, 2003 interacts: 62In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Edward Said was slandered by Ibn Warraq, a man with pretensions to being a secular humanist and the
Sex and the Saudi
Haroon Moghul Oct 12, 2003 interacts: 94Imagine you’re a Saudi man, tired from a day of beating your Bengali worker...
Primetime Pope and the Maverick Mother
Farzana Versey Oct 7, 2003 interacts: 72Can we pull up the Pope for human frailties...and what was Mother Teresa doing in a paddy field?
The Children of Abraham Share a Unique Heritage
Ras Siddiqui Oct 6, 2003 interacts: 21A few people in Lodi, California led by Randy Rosa’ decided that instead of honoring separately a figure that all three of them revere, their
Fading Exclamations
Temporal Sep 11, 2003 interacts: 196Osama a Muslim hero or villain: a pied piper or puppet: a rebel, an idealist or an agent? Whoever he maybe he is the best
Conflict of Science with Theocracy
Mohammad Gill Sep 7, 2003 interacts: 82Although all the various governments in the Muslim countries are not constitutionally theocratic in structure, all of them do indeed have constitutional provisions forbidding divergence
Myths and Dreams: Hindutva Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora
Angana Chatterji Aug 26, 2003 interacts: 175In the United States, the fervour of long distance Hindutva nationalism is intense. Dangerous stories circulate. Muslims are polygamous terrorists whose deliberate identification and massacre
My Perspective on Islam
Rasheed Talib Aug 7, 2003 interacts: 56Humanists cannot endorse terrorist targeting of innocents no matter how just the cause
The Curse of Mullah
Atif Mian Aug 5, 2003 interacts: 88The bill declared the wearing of shirts and trousers as “Un-Islamic” (and hence un-constitutional), and called for a strict ban on shirts and trousers in
Hey Ram, What Have You Done to My Religion?
Dost Mittar Jul 21, 2003 interacts: 142The way I saw it, it all started with Ram. Back in the 1980s, when the official Doordarshan TV channel was the only game in
The Defence College Experience
Nazar Khan Jul 9, 2003 interacts: 112We also touched, perhaps superficially, on other national issues ranging from ‘economy’ to ‘national planning’ and had begun to have a false feeling of ‘knowing
Bari Imam’s Republic of Peeristan
Hala Malik Jul 2, 2003 interacts: 46Before, this disease was limited to the illiterate population of Pakistan, but now it’s becoming more of a fashion for literate and well-known people to
Yesterday and Tomorrow in India Today
Dost Mittar Jun 7, 2003 interacts: 166Here was, then, the India of yesterday: poor, hungry, mired in poverty, highly dependent upon the vagaries of weather and yet full of life with
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