Tag: Religion
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Arabisation or Westernisation; what are we really victim of?
The problem with the critics who call Pakistani progressive thinkers desi liberals is that they ignore many dimensions of a single problem. They see things in black and white. When a progressive person speaks about the horrors of Arabisation, they suddenly come up with the pictures of Pakistani youth wearing jeans and using mobile phones…
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مولانا طارق جمیل کی خدمت میں کھلا خط
آج کل آپ کی تعریف میں کافی قصیدے لکھے جا رہے ہیں اور ہر دوسرا کالم نگار حضرت کی عامر خان کے ساتھ “انٹریکشن” کو بیان کرتا پھرتا ہے۔ میرے کچھ سوالات ہیں اور کچھ اعتراضات۔ جن دوستوں نے مولانا کی ویڈیو دیکھی ہے وہ جواب دے سکتے ہیں۔ پہلا تو یہ کہ آپ کو…
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Deeyat Laws: Social Impact of the level of strictness in laws; A Discussion
When Shahzeb Khan’s family granted pardon to their son’s murderer, whole nation came to utter shock. This was one of the most fought causes by civil society and people from all professions and backgrounds on the basis of barbaric show of feudal power. In the aftermath of the murder, which was committed by son of…
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Orthodox Patriarchal Agenda at work
Can you believe this bullshit? The guy is serious. This man Maulana Pandit Pastor Raylan Alleman has outclassed all the orthodox bullshit that we come across in South Asia. Guess all dogmas have same misogynist patriarchal agenda. However this piece posted on Fix the Family Citadel Catholic Media, an organisation to promote family system in…
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کیلے کی پٹائی
مبینہ کیلا حوالات جانے سے پہلے ۔(اسلام آباد، مملکت خداداد) کل ایک کیلے کو مسجد کے باہر بغیر چھلکے پڑا دیکھ کر مومنین نے مار مار کے اسکا شیک بنا ڈالا۔ کیلے نے مبینہ طور پر رمضان مبارک کی توہین کی تھی۔ اسلامی ملک میں رمضان المبارک کے تقدس کے لیئے خاص قوانین موجود ہیں۔…
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Green House Effect of US-Taliban talks
Comments on the article by Hussain Haqqani in NY Times today. Agreeing to Haqqani, I guess US is aiming for short term goals over here. Adding to the same, the next battleground of Taliban ideological warfare will be Pakistan and it will be source for their ideology dissemination and manpower recruitment. No matter how much…
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Bloody Self-Righteousness Syndrome
This self-righteousness is the reason that others get offensive to you. This self-righteousness of yours is the reason that others attack your faith. Do you realize, how much hurting is it when somebody judges you due to your faith? You can realize this only when you are in the same situation. When somebody makes a…
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The Battles of (Ir)Rationality
Last week I shared an article of Greenwald, which was in reply to Sam Harris and Dawkins “irrational Islamophobia” and alongwith it the emails exchange between Sam Harris and Greenwald on RSOP, when he retweeted Murtaza Hussain’s (A toronto based columnist) article on Sam Harris and Dawkins attitude. This is Dawkins infamous quote which spurred…
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Hypocricy Marathon of New-Atheists and Islamists
Just came by this news yesterday. Where, University of Leicester is investigating the enforcement of gender segregation in a public address by Hamza Tzortsis, an Islamic Speaker. University showed its concerns on the handwritten posters directing “brothers” and “sisters” to separate sections of hall. The spokesperson of Hamza Tzortzis has this to say in response…
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Getting high on Muslim Conversions in West
Today in RSOP, a guy, religiously very passionate posted some text (his own thoughts or maybe some copy paste stuff) that there is a 25% rise in the Muslim conversions in France last year. Well to many of my friends and readers of this blog, it will be exciting enough, really cool and a big…