If
Muslims want to succeed in anything useful, determine new directions
and new dimensions and if they want to influence the world and restore
their glory they need urgently to re-examine their religion. The
Muslim hatred of democracy, pluralism, religious tolerance,
co-existence and freedom of expression still continues unabated. The
battle between the rigid, closed and dogmatic ideology of religion and
unfettered thinking is by no means decided but its outcome will
determine whether Muslims will embrace freedom, democracy, pluralism,
coexistence, progress and tolerance or succumb to non-compromising
fundamentalism, conflict and relentless war against the civilized
world. The incessant rage, hostility and violence of the dejected
Muslims will further destabilize the entire world…. Indeed the West
runs almost entirely on 'ilm or knowledge. On the other hand the
Islamic countries are often shackled by the ideas of the habar or the
priests of religion who run on hot air. -- Syed Akbar Ali
The
Quran emphatically asserts that death is not the final end but a
gateway to a different kind of life: We mete out death among you....
that we may transfigure you and make you what you know not. And verily
you know the first creation. Why then do we not reflect? (56: 61-63)The
real self, not being a part of the body is not subject to physical
laws. It is dependent on the body for functioning in the physical
world, but it may continue to exist after the destruction of the body,
its instrument: And they say, what! When we have become bones and dust
shall we indeed be raised up a new creation. Say thou: Be ye stones or
iron or a substance still more improbable in your hearts (to be
restored to life). But they will say: Who shall bring us back? Say
thou: He who brought you into being for the first time (17: 49-51). -- Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez
“Hindu girls are kidnapped in every part of the province,” said Mr Chand.
The
head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Asma Jahangir, said in
a statement that announcements made from mosques by the banned Sunni
group Lashkar-i-jhangvi the day before called upon Muslims to “make
mincemeat of the Christians”. Human rights and minority rights groups
have called, and continue to call, for the repeal of blasphemy laws
that they said are used to persecute non-Muslims. The Hindu community
in Karachi has not forgotten the case of Kumar Jagdesh, a young Hindu
who was brutally murdered in April last year in Karachi. -- Isambard Wilkinson
Who
should we blame for the failure of the 9/11 truth movement to fix the
historical record and, better yet, identify those in the government who
turned 9/11 into an excuse for going to war, getting them indicted,
prosecuted, and punished for their murderous acts?
It
is too easy to blame the mainstream media and political establishment
for refusing to demand and pursue a truly comprehensive and credible
independent scientific and engineering investigation.President
Obama with his tenacious belief in looking forward, not backward,
exemplifies a national mindset to avoid the painful search for truth
and justice that could produce still more public disillusionment with
government and feed the belief that American democracy is weak at best,
and delusional at worst. -- Joel S. Hirschhorn
Muslims
are already "conquering Europe's cities, street by street". So what if
Muslims account for only 3% to 4% of the EU's total population of 493
million?
Since
the 1970s, by a second generation of Muslims born in Europe, many of
them with bleaker prospects of employment than their parents. Today,
about 15-16 million Muslims from families of immigrant origin live in
the EU, mostly in the cities. Surveys and opinion polls, including a
recent one by Gallup, repeatedly reveal the average European Muslim to
be poor, socially conservative, and unhappy about discrimination, but
generally content, hopeful about their children - who attend
non-religious schools - and eager, like their non-Muslim peers, to get
on with their lives. Initially high, sbirth-rates among Muslim
communities across Europe are falling as more men and women become
literate. Exposure to secular modernity has also weaned many of these
immigrants away from traditional faith: only 5% of Muslims in France
regularly attend mosques, and elsewhere, too, non-observant "cultural
Muslims" predominate. -- Pankaj Mishra
It is a 'New Package with old policy',
which aims to maximise Pakistani gains at the expense of the local
people. Aim of Pakistani policy makers has always been to subjugate
people, deprive them of fundamental rights, strengthen undemocratic
forces, and promote communalism, extremism and hatred to divide people
and plunder resources of this area. Malika Baltistani, Chairperson
Gilgit Baltistan National Alliance, in a letter to PM of Pakistan said:
'It is a mournful reality that you have further continued a tradition
to prolong our slavery by only altering the titles of the portfolios of
our future "masters" than transforming our constitutional, democratic
and basic rights from darkness to enlightenment. --Dr Shabir Choudhry
If
Muslims want to succeed in anything useful, determine new directions
and new dimensions and if they want to influence the world and restore
their glory they need urgently to re-examine their religion. The
Muslim hatred of democracy, pluralism, religious tolerance,
co-existence and freedom of expression still continues unabated. The
battle between the rigid, closed and dogmatic ideology of religion and
unfettered thinking is by no means decided but its outcome will
determine whether Muslims will embrace freedom, democracy, pluralism,
coexistence, progress and tolerance or succumb to non-compromising
fundamentalism, conflict and relentless war against the civilized
world. The incessant rage, hostility and violence of the dejected
Muslims will further destabilize the entire world…. Indeed the West
runs almost entirely on 'ilm or knowledge. On the other hand the
Islamic countries are often shackled by the ideas of the habar or the
priests of religion who run on hot air
The
Quran emphatically asserts that death is not the final end but a
gateway to a different kind of life: We mete out death among you....
that we may transfigure you and make you what you know not. And verily
you know the first creation. Why then do we not reflect? (56: 61-63)
Since
the 1970s, by a second generation of Muslims born in Europe, many of
them with bleaker prospects of employment than their parents. Today,
about 15-16 million Muslims from families of immigrant origin live in
the EU, mostly in the cities. Surveys and opinion polls, including a
recent one by Gallup, repeatedly reveal the average European Muslim to
be poor, socially conservative, and unhappy about discrimination, but
generally content, hopeful about their children - who attend
non-religious schools - and eager, like their non-Muslim peers, to get
on with their lives. Initially high, sbirth-rates among Muslim
communities across Europe are falling as more men and women become
literate. Exposure to secular modernity has also weaned many of these
immigrants away from traditional faith: only 5% of Muslims in France
regularly attend mosques, and elsewhere, too, non-observant "cultural
Muslims" predominate. 
