I am ambivalent about giving any additional attention to a hate-filled, fear-driven, religious leader like Pastor Terry Jones. Once the Gainesville, Florida minister is being covered by the New York Times however, it seems that coverage is assured. The only question which remains is what shall be the response? (more…)
While most pundits and analysts are giving their views about the destruction caused by the floods, Moign Khawaja of Outernationalist.net speaks to the force of nature to find out its views about the catastrophe and reasons for natural aggression of a grand scale. While finding the other side of the story, we discovered many qualms and reservations nature has been confronted with for a long time. (more…)
Every year the onset of Ramadan ushers in a strange cultural transformation in urbanized Muslim societies. A natural consequence of waking up to eat in the darkest hours of morning, fasting from dawn to dusk, and consuming huge amounts of food at sunset is that your biological clock along with the rest of your bodily functions goes completely haywire. In Muslim majority societies however, fasting isn’t an individualistic phenomenon, but a socially driven lifestyle readjustment– (more…)
I’m a white conservative evangelical Christian who grew up in Nebraska and Colorado. I own a couple of guns, and I hunt and fish. Yep, I drive a pickup truck and listen to country western music. In my small-town Nebraskan childhood I never met a single black or brown-skinned person. Everyone was white. All ranchers and farmers. All drove trucks with gun racks and an NRA sticker on the back. No lie, my first bumper sticker on my first car said “God created men, Winchester made them equal.” I’m serious! (more…)
Once upon a time there lived a girl named Khalida in Kandahar, the southern region of Afghanistan. It is the spiritual base of Taliban, a puritanical movement which proclaims its roots in Islam.
When she was just eight years old, a ragtag militia from her town took control after fierce fighting with the bandits that controlled the city, terrorizing the people and holding them as hostage in their own (more…)
The Anti-Defamation League has betrayed itself and its own principles, by coming out against the Park 51 project (which is still being characterized incorrectly as the “ground zero mosque”). Their press release (in full below) is even worse than the denunciation of the project by Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich, because they explicitly concede that the muslim community has the right to build (more…)
Two attacks on worship places of Qadianis took place on 28 May in Lahore in which more than 90 worshippers lost their lives. This was the news of the day item I did for Foreign Policy Journal that day. I could have written it the following way:
Two attacks on mosques took place on 28 May in Lahore in which more than 90 faithful lost their lives. (more…)
From lofty and very lonely heights, the foreign writer tries to decipher what went wrong with the game of cricket after the glorious days when the Imperial Sun used to shine all day from East to West. As the westerner purposefully sips on his mild cup of Twining’s Earl Gray tea with spice and cinnamon extract at a small cafe overlooking the grandiose Lord’s Cricket Ground, he racks his head as he struggles to understand the Pakistan Cricket board (PCB). How it is that the PCB could go ahead and ban all of their talented – albeit scoundrel – cricketers, then go ahead and completely reverse that decision, unbanning all previously banned cricketers along with their tainted reputations? (more…)
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