Articles with tag: Extremism
Vision21: Waziristan Strategy or Pakistan Strategy?
Azhar Aslam Oct 30, 2009 interacts: 66Pakistan and Waziristan were not always like this. How we have come to this pass is crucial to analyse, but even more urgent is to assess that are we prepared enough to win this battle?
An Eyewitness account from Gojra
Faris Kasim Aug 7, 2009 interacts: 462This was not the work of a foreign funded militant group or a separatist movement. It was actually the result of propagating religious chauvinism, intolerance of diverse communities, distorting history, glorifying the use of force.
Recalibrating The Moral Compass
Irfan Waheed Jul 23, 2009 interacts: 199As extremism has spread its tentacles across Pakistan, it has manifested itself in a familiar pattern. Barber shops are warned, and then blown up. Businesses selling music CDs are warned and then blown up.
Conspiracy Theories, Patriotism and Religion
Raza Habib Jul 6, 2009 interacts: 28Lately this conspiracy theory mindset is being projected as “proof” of patriotism and any alternate paradigm of analysis is actually labeled as blind endorsement of West or unpatriotic behavior.
No Quarter For Half Wits Please
Shandana Minhas May 18, 2009 interacts: 7Humanitarian disasters are bad because they kill people. Extremism is a menace because it kills people. Again I ask, why is there so much fuss about how we die and not how we live?
Pakistan, Can You Hear Me?
Rakesh Mani Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 374Pakistanis come out on the streets to protest against the Taliban, against violence and against the murder of their own people. And for peace and dignity and friendship with their neighbors.
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Shandana Minhas Sep 21, 2008 interacts: 12We can go blue in the face shouting about the pernicious predators, but we stay silent while innocents are slain within our own borders.
September Morning
Feroz Qutabshahi Sep 4, 2008 interacts: 245The pace might be pathetically slow but an increasing cadre of writers and thinkers have started to question smugness of the Islamic world.
Another Lal Masjid in the Making?
Ahmad Bilal Jun 8, 2008 interacts: 106The walls were filled with anti-west hate slogans, “Al-Jihad Al-Qital? (holy war, bloody battle) written everywhere around the central mosque. This was not the Bahawalpur I knew.
Twenty Three Students Expelled From Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad
Atif Mian Jun 8, 2008 interacts: 696On Thursday, June 5th the principal of Punjab Medical College in Faisalabad expelled every student who belonged to the minority Ahmadi community from his college.
The Wrong Mix
Nadeem F Paracha May 17, 2008 interacts: 130Refusing to ally with capitalist-democracies of the West and cautious about openly supporting the USSR/communism Islamic Socialists attempted to come up with a "third way."
Whither Enlightened Moderation
saeed qureshi May 17, 2008 interacts: 13The latest patch up between the NWFP provincial government and Taliban of Swat and South Waziristan buries the much touted President Musharraf’s theme of enlightened moderation
Europe and the Film Culture
noman siddiqui Apr 7, 2008 interacts: 38Despite the speculated aggressive reactions, the film “Fitna? was released on the Internet on March 27, 2008.
An Open Letter to Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Gupangam Khan Nov 12, 2007 interacts: 130What do you really mean by "re-establishing the Khilafat and carrying Islam to all Mankind by way of Jihad" on your website?
The Durrani Family Saga
Muhammad Tariq Oct 19, 2007 interacts: 1The poor in Pakistan must be given an alternate to the clergy to take them out from the spiral of ignobility in which they are caught.
Life on the Periphery in the Absence of Humanism
Syed Shah Aug 3, 2007 interacts: 5While the clergy and the liberal intellectuals bicker, the million dollar question remains where all the moderates have gone...
Preventing More Lal Masjids
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 10, 2007 interacts: 962What should the government do after the guns stop firing and the hostages are out, whether dead or alive?
Countering Our Very Own Frankenstein
Beena Sarwar Jul 10, 2007 interacts: 6According to media reports, pro-Taliban elements like the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Moham have already clashed with the military. The TNSM has reportedly seized all highways in the area, including the Silk Road leading to China.
Pakistan – The Threat From Within
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 31, 2007 interacts: 393It is an open question as to exactly how much further Pakistan will move towards religious radicalism in the years to come.
Why is the Government Dithering When it Should Stand Firm?
Kamal Siddiqi May 2, 2007 interacts: 21With religious extremists openly challenging the writ of the state, and despite overwhelming public demands that this be stopped, the government seems to be giving in.
On Sexual Liberation, Extremism and Simple Hypocrisy
farrukh kamrani Sep 8, 2006 interacts: 29Mr. Ishtiaq Ahmed’s article Convoluted Hypocrisy and Extremism published in the Daily Times on May 30, is a curious read affording us a unique opportunity to see the capacity some people have to retain and propagate wrong and distorted ideas!
Interpretation of Islamic Extremism in Mass Media
Zara Hafeez Jun 21, 2006 interacts: 2Interpretation of Islamic Extremism by the western mass media
Recent Terror in Egypt
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 28, 2005 interacts: 206Egypt is where it all started as early as 1928. Indeed it was not as much a reaction to non-Muslims or even colonial rule as it was opposed to its own co-religionists.
Will Pakistanis Listen and Act?
Sushil Bhatnagar Jul 22, 2005 interacts: 226President Musharraf's response as extremism in Pakistan comes under scrutiny once again
A Season of Faith’s Defection
Fahd Raza May 20, 2005 interacts: 12The message of tolerance is necessary not only for the Islamic militants but also for the so-called secularists, who in turn are extremist to the point of judging a man by his facial hair, or the clothes he or she wears.
The Commonality of ’Fundamentalisms’
Beena Sarwar Oct 11, 2004 interacts: 35Lalit Vachani documentary will resonate in Pakistan -- and other societies traumatized by ideologically-motivated violence -- due to the insight it gives into the minds of those involved in organizations that contribute to such violence.
A Case for Moderation
Gibran Bham Aug 26, 2004 interacts: 138Battling conspiracy theories and extremism: The old complaints of corruption and violence had been replaced by antipathy against the government’s policies, especially its close relationship with the United States. Now, the poor, and the rich, the e
Muslims Vs. Modernity
A Shiraz Jun 17, 2004 interacts: 110A modern Muslim can revert to fundamentalism as was the case with Mohammad Atta, the September 11 terrorist, and countless other Lebanese, Iranian, Algerian, Egyptian and Iranian elites. What causes this reversion?
My Pakistan
Ahmed Sadozai Nov 24, 2003 interacts: 152I wonder whether Islamic extremism is the future of Pakistan, it surely seems the case in the northern and western parts of Pakistan, where ‘Taliban-like’, long bearded people have made their government, who have the education and civilization
