Tehelka Expose and the Conspiracy of Secularist Silence

SOROOR AHMED analyses how the so-called secular, non-BJP politicians ¬– save and except Lalu Prasad – chose to keep silence or express some feeble voices on the Tehelka expose, and exposes their love for Soft Hindutva....

Vatican Rebuffs Muslim Outreach Qur'an cited as the main obstacle

Vatican has rebuffed a massive outreach effort by 138 Muslim religious leaders and scholars who sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI in an attempt to improve Christian-Muslim relations.
The letter, titled “A Common Word Between Us and You,&rdquo...

The Needle of Suspicion Why It Turns towards Muslims Alone?

Inaction against the Rightist reactionaries is a Nehruvian legacy. Giving him margin for the questionable slackness, one is inclined to feel the Architect of modern India felt just helpless before the likes of Sardar Patel, who had his own peculiar v...

Killing of Muslim Woman in Patna: Nitish in Dock

The abduction, repeated rape and subsequent murder of Reshma Khatoon in Patna by men too close to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar have sent shock waves among the Muslims of the state as never since 1990 any female member of the community had met su...

Sowing a Revolution

Have you ever noticed that there aren’t many public libraries in Dubai? Well, there are some, run by the Dubai Municipality. But they are not most popular with the Emirates and large expatriate population of the country. It’s the same sta...

Misplaced Confidence

For years, or even for decades, the Muslim activists in the western world, especially in the USA believed that parroting “Christians and Muslims share Abrahamic faith” will lull the Born-again Christians and neoconservatives to grant Isla...

Religious Pluralism in Peril

Communalism is religious imperialism; it is rather more dangerous than the political imperialism. Communalism is an incessant process of proliferating religious hatred in society. It has been our experience of about six decades that the communal forc...

Not Just "Faith," But Also Intelligence

Auron ka hai Payaam aur, mera Payaam aur hai, / Ishq key dardmand ka tarz-e-kalaam aur hai! (Iqbal)
Let us continue with our story of the most amazing miracles of Islam. Our definition of a “miracle” is an event of such extreme low proba...

KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION VOICES FOR DIALOGUE

The Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, Salahuddin Bahaauddin, voiced his anger towards Turkish parliament decision allowing Turkish army to invade territories of Iraqi Kurdistan region and attack Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) premises....