Bangladesh Jamaat e Islami being outlawed soon
Source: The Blitz While Bangladesh Election Commission has already served notice on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami asking it to make some changes in its party’s charter which do not conform to […]
Please save my future generation
Source: The Daily Star Inam Ahmed and Julfikar Ali Manik, from Ramu, Cox’s Bazar The Buddha statues made of gold are lost forever. The intrinsic designs of Khadi wood are lost in the inferno. The Tripitak is lost too. But for Shreemad Satyapriya Mohathero, who had just turned 83, the […]
Bangladesh Muslims torch Buddhist shrines
Source: CNN News From Farid Ahmed (CNN) — Crowds of angry Muslims attacked Buddhist shrines and homes, torching some of them Sunday in Bangladesh to protest after a photo of a partially burned Quran was posted on Facebook, police said. The protesters chanted anti-Buddhist slogans, blaming the burning of the Muslim […]
Hidden Causes of the Muslim Protests
Source: The Atlantic By ROBERT WRIGHT As the Muslim protests subside, more and more people have come to realize that what seems to have sparked them–one of the worst YouTube videos ever, which is saying something–isn’t what they were mainly about. But what were they about? Here theories differ, and some of the […]
The Irony of the Anti-Immigration Violence in Assam
Aug 20, 2012 6:55 PM EDT Source: The Daily Beast The anti-immigrants violence in the Indian state of Assam and the Sikh shooting in Wisconsin both come from the hate of the other. But why do immigrants themselves hate that which they are or were? Dilip D’Souza on the irony […]
Bangladesh: Refugee Aid Discouraged
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
Assam violence claims 40 lives; no Bangladeshi hand, says Centre
Source: Hindustan Times. Clashes between minority immigrants and Bodo tribals continued unabated as the toll in the ethnic violence shot up to 40 today with the recovery of eight more bodies even as the Centre asked the Assam government to nab the “ring leaders” involved in unrest. Five more bodies […]
Beards, butter & the bomb: Will Pakistan Army break the country again?
DAWN: Nadeem Paracha: OP-ED: When on December 18 leaders from more than a dozen radical religious parties, certain down-and-out politicians, one very verbose former ISI chief and the son of a bygone and dead dictator graced the ‘Defend Pakistan’ rally organised by the controversial Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), I wondered, was the […]
Scandals, resignations and massacres: Europe in 2011
2011 in Europe was marked by Norway’s Utoya massacre, the Dominique Straus-Khan affair, the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi and rumblings of discontent towards Vladimir Putin. Telegraph UK Perhaps the most […]
With lives at stake, beleaguered Syrians opt for pain of exile
By Khetam Malkawi JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ – Although aware of the hardships they would face, a desire to live in peace and security has prompted many Syrians to flee violence […]