Another Lal Masjid in the Making?

The walls were filled with anti-west hate slogans, “Al-Jihad Al-Qital” (holy war, bloody battle) written everywhere around the central mosque. This was not the Bahawalpur I knew.

Muslim Profanities

I look at pictures of the ravaged Al-Askariyya dome, and I want to know: what is the religion of a mosque-destroyer? Does a bomber say Fatiha over the people he’s killed?

You Failed Us Mr. President

In the words of great Martin Luther King Jr.: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice' and justice we demand from you sir.

Ashura: Atonement, Mourning and Return

Someone’s holy work is death, I register. And someone else’s is reporting that 150-word story for the AP. And someone else’s yet again is that bold typeface. This is it. This is grief for the electronic age.

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Everyone cannot kill a human being. But do you support the people who say that Shiites are not Muslims?

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