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Articles with tag: fun

Reforming Religious Fundamentalists

Khalid Sohail   Oct 1, 2008   interacts: 105

What would you do with religious fundamentalists, especially those who adopt militant practices, have violent consciousness, and have become involved in armed struggle...

Zalim Online

TARIQ AQIL   Sep 28, 2008   interacts: 9

An eye witness to the horror and carnage by the religious fanatics in Pakistan

Don't Shoot the Messenger

Shandana Minhas   Sep 21, 2008   interacts: 11

We can go blue in the face shouting about the pernicious predators, but we stay silent while innocents are slain within our own borders.

The God Delusion

Mutaal Mooquin   Sep 13, 2008   interacts: 274

In protest of all religio-zealots, I am bringing to attention of all, the work of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion".

Confessions of a Religious Fundamentalist

Abrar Hasan   May 26, 2008   interacts: 35


I just want you to understand that never mind the beautiful facades of different ISMS, at the base of it all we are all religious and all fundamentalists.

Fundamentalism and Violence

Khalid Sohail   Dec 10, 2007   interacts: 123

Human beings are conditioned by their families and communities and violent cultures produce violent people.

Mukhtar Mai's December 11th Fundraiser in Sacramento

Ras Siddiqui   Nov 13, 2007   interacts: 39

This effort is not about dwelling on what already happened but what's possible; to change the future of some girls and women in Southern Punjab.

Militant Liberalism

ahmad hayat   May 9, 2007   interacts: 387

Do we have liberals amongst us that are willing to carry a Kalashnikov in the name of values of Egalitarianism and Social Justice?

Reclaiming the Middle Ground

Ishrat Saleem   Jan 17, 2007   interacts: 53

No matter how we try to dissociate ourselves from our Muslim identity, it comes back to us in unexpected ways.

‘Our Liberals’ and Minority Psyche

farrukh kamrani   Jun 22, 2006   interacts: 760

Although they enjoy all the benefits of the society, they are the people who do not identify themselves with the majority of the people dwelling the country.

London’s Hour of Reckoning

Ozer Khalid   Jul 8, 2005   interacts: 502

A surreal silence and eerie calm haunts Europe. Yet Londoners display steely resilience in the eye of the terror tiger.

Rantings of an Aid Worker

Zehra Rizvi   Feb 17, 2005   interacts: 10

I am of course, in this mindset that once D and I leave and the structures that we will set up will collapse. How the fuck did I get so colonial? What is the middle ground here for me?

The Deadline

Subroto Pant   Nov 5, 2004   interacts: 5

'Ah! You mean that deadline' I replied as I frantically racked my brain for excuses to offer. Hmm the dog ate my article, but I probably need to buy a dog first to corroborate that one. Or how about...

A Wedding Night in Boston...

Atif    Oct 24, 2004   interacts: 72

As I watched the blonde and brunette Pakistani girls gyrating and bobbing to bhangra, I wanted to kneel before God once again.

The Commonality of ’Fundamentalisms’

Beena Sarwar   Oct 11, 2004   interacts: 35

Lalit Vachani documentary will resonate in Pakistan -- and other societies traumatized by ideologically-motivated violence -- due to the insight it gives into the minds of those involved in organizations that contribute to such violence.

Lahore ka Jughraphiah

Mohammad Gill   Sep 2, 2004   interacts: 172

..The elders have described the essence of all this research in these curt and expressive words: Lahore is Lahore. If you cannot find Lahore from this descrption, it only proves that your education is defective and inteeligence questionable...

Learning in Saffron: RSS Schools Orissa

Angana Chatterji   Nov 13, 2003   interacts: 123

At the intersections of globalisation and hyper nationalism, Hindutva intervenes, unravelling the fragile fabric of democracy.

How to waste a day

Sabeen Idris   Oct 11, 2003   interacts: 12

After breakfast the day is peppered with many sub-meals like breakfast reinterpreted, brunch, lunch, lunch in close collaboration with tea-time.

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