Asia

For the love of God

Source: Arab News The frightening absence of sincerity in the whole procedure is hardly edifying to the vast majority of Hindus who have not engaged in this practice of shepherding people into their fold until now. I just find it cruel to those it is being imposed upon and unfair […]

Islamabad’s Red Mosque Imam’s Brazen support for terrorists

Islamabad’s Lal Masjid Imam Maulana Abdul Aziz’s Brazen Support to the Terrorists المولوي عبد العزيز -الإمام الديوبندي للمسجد الأحمر بباكستان- دعم الإرهابيين دعما كبيرا   مقال افتتاحي في صحيفة نوائ وقت اليومية الأردية، باكستان (ترجمه من الإنجليزية: نيو إيج إسلام) الإمام في المسجد الأحمر( أو لال مسجد) الواقع في إسلام […]

It wasn’t the final atrocity

Source: Dawn HE gut-wrenching massacre in Peshawar’s Army Public School has left Pakistanaghast and sickened. All political leaders have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that can bridge the deep divides within. In another few days this episode of 134 dead children will become one like any other. […]

What Will Israel Become?

JERUSALEM — Uneasiness inhabits Israel, a shadow beneath the polished surface. In a violent Middle Eastern neighborhood of fracturing states, that is perhaps inevitable, but Israelis are questioning their nation and its future with a particular insistence. As the campaign for March elections begins, this disquiet looks like the precursor […]

Inside Isis: The first Western journalist ever given access to the ‘Islamic State’ has just returned – and this is what he discovered

The first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is “much stronger and much more dangerous” than anyone in the West realises. Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, is a renowned German journalist […]

Pakistan’s Old Curse

NY times: LONDON — Only a week ago, the Red Mosque seemed a nearly untouchable bastion of Islamist extremism in Pakistan, a notorious seminary in central Islamabad known for producing radicalized, and sometimes heavily armed, graduates. On Friday evening, though, the tables were turned when hundreds of angry protesters stood at […]