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Selling Spirituality

Khalid Sohail   Jul 6, 2006   interacts: 157

The biggest tragedy is that there is an increasing number of simple, innocent, naive and gullible people who follow these pseudo-mystics and after wasting a

Bullhe Shah and His Veil of “Meem”

Mohammad Gill   Feb 21, 2008   interacts: 362

One of the attributes of Allah is “Ahad,” meaning “One.” This is the spirit of monotheism. Ahmad is the name of prophet Muhammad.

Search for Origins of Mahayana Buddhism

mahmood Mahmood   Dec 4, 2007   interacts: 297

The land of Pakistan is blessed with one of the most important treasures of the world, the glorious civilization of Buddhism flourishing in the North

I am Ashamed and I Apologize

Hemendra K Varma   Jun 6, 2002   interacts: 149

these people were not Hindus, for this is not what Hinduism teaches

Reinterpretation of Islam in Turkey

Mohammad Gill   Feb 29, 2008   interacts: 307

Reinterpretation of Quran (and Hadith) is allowed in principle although no effective reinterpretation has ever taken place in the Muslim world.

America’s Moral Compass

Omar Mirza   Jan 30, 2005   interacts: 164

The Western social contract is far more tolerant and fair than the Islamic social contract rooted in 7th century notions of intolerance.

The Kal Aaj Aur Kal of Secularism

Harish Nambiar   Sep 23, 2002   interacts: 124

There is a generation growing distant from religion, and yet engagingly indulgent of it. Not so much as a pathway to salvation as much as

Roshanara Begum in Lahore Karachi ISLAAMABAD

Rehan Ansari   Jun 21, 2001   interacts: 18

So you think I can tempt a nun

God in Vedas and Upanishads

Sushil Bhatnagar   Jun 1, 2006   interacts: 201

Indian philosophical thought can be generally divided in two divergent currents. One having its source in the Vedas and the other independent of it.

Why didn’t the Scientific Revolution happen in Islam?

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Dec 23, 1997   interacts: 12

Every great civilization writes its own history, selectively extracts data from the past, and then proves to its satisfaction that its greatness has no peer

Can Religious Leaders Redeem the Future of the World?

Mohammad Gill   Oct 15, 2007   interacts: 235

138 prominent Muslim scholars have written an open letter to Pope Benedict XVI calling for religious harmony between Christians and the Muslims.

Where is Ibn-Sina of the 21st Century?

Feroz Qutabshahi   Dec 13, 2007   interacts: 178

The 800-pound gorilla in the Islamic room is not ignorance or violence but “Blind” faith in Quran and the Hadith.

Delhi University Politics

Parag Vohra   Mar 1, 2002   interacts: 107

The civic lesson constituted our being made to lie down face down and rub our noses on the ground

Songs of Dissonance

Aisha Sarwari   Nov 25, 2005   interacts: 117

Out of all the tragedies this earthquake has brought, the loss of an educated and inspiring Junaid Jamshed is very dehumanizing.

The Defence College Experience

Nazar Khan   Jul 9, 2003   interacts: 112

We also touched, perhaps superficially, on other national issues ranging from ‘economy’ to ‘national planning’ and had begun to have a false feeling of ‘knowing

Orissa: A Gujarat in the making

Angana Chatterji   Nov 4, 2003   interacts: 139

With little resistance to its aggressive onslaught, the sangh parivar looks well set to meet its 2006 deadline for reshaping Orissa into the next ’laboratory

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