Month: March 2014

Wahhabism’s Deep Indian Roots

Source: The Conservative: For most Indians the word Wahhabi means Saudi Arabian fundamentalism. When told that Wahhabism has deep roots in the Indian sub-continent, the first response is usually denial often followed by claims that Indian Wahhabism was a British invention. Those who think that way would do well to […]

Musharraf’s case heading towards a Catastrophe!

By Saeed Qureshi Barring providential intervention, apparently Pakistan’s former strong man and president Musharraf is in deep waters. Justice Faisal Arab the head of the special court seems to be poised to send Musharraf either to gallows or long imprisonment for high treason charge. Musharraf’s decision to return to Pakistan […]

Matrix Cultures: In the Web of Life

Suppressed Histories: by Max Dashu — Matrix cultures are built on the natural fact that women bear and sustain life. So their social, economic and cultural organization follows kinship through mothers, logically enough, without having to be concerned about determining paternity, or enforcing patrilineage through a sexual double standard. All […]

Election: Ahmadiyah refugees have high hopes for change

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