minorities

Do minorities have role in Iraqi national reconciliation?

IRAQ PULSE Türkçe okuyun نبض العراق Iraqi Christians, including Christian soldiers, attend the first Sunday Mass at the Grand Immaculate Church since it was recaptured from Islamic State in Qaraqosh, near Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2016.  (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah) Do minorities have role in Iraqi national reconciliation? BAGHDAD — The national settlement […]

No visas for minorities

By Hussain Nadim Published: September 9, 2016 The writer is a PhD candidate and coordinator of the South Asia Study Group at the University of Sydney The current refugee crisis in Europe is not the only event that debunks the myth of Western civilisation’s high moral standards of human rights, […]

MARRAKESH DECLARATION

In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate Executive Summary of the Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities 25th-27th January 2016 WHEREAS, conditions in various parts of the Muslim World have deteriorated dangerously due to the use of violence and armed struggle […]

Jinnah’s vision

Jinnah’s vision EDITORIAL — DAWN.COM   22 COMMENTS The frequent projection of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Aug 11 address to the Constituent Assembly creates an impression that this is the Quaid’s only speech that gives us his vision of Pakistan. On the contrary, throughout his political career, Jinnah made it repeatedly […]

BLAMING THE KALASH

Newsweek: CONSERVATIVE MUSLIMS ACCUSE THE MINORITY COMMUNITY OF CAUSING LAST MONTH’S EARTHQUAKE. Conservative Muslims in Pakistan’s northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming their immoral ways provoked Allah’s wrath, in the latest attack on a diminishing tribe fighting to keep […]