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Articles with tag: fatwa

Understanding the Death Fatwa on Taslima Nasreen

Kisan B   Apr 15, 2007   interacts: 402

It has become a time honoured tactic to incite the faithful into attacking and murdering those dare to criticise Islam and has served the spread of Islam well by terrorizing people into submission and silencing opposition.

Mullah Pat Robertson’s Fatwa

Fazeel Chauhan   Aug 26, 2005   interacts: 60

Bulleh Shah, save me from the Mullah
Mullah’s selling religion for green Moolah
Government loots my paycheck and calls it taxes
Mullah steals my zakaat “for God’s Sake”


Being Imrana

Zafar Anjum   Jul 12, 2005   interacts: 292

Imran’s tragedy has shaken up the redoubtable polymath Salman Rushdie, the ultimate symbol of a person suffering under a draconian fatwa, into writing a scathing attack on the Deoband fatwa and the culture of honour-and-shame prevailing in India and

Blasphemy

Younus Shaikh   Apr 13, 2004   interacts: 242

Muslims are the first victims of Islamism.

Waiting For Fatwa

Temporal    Sep 17, 2003   interacts: 248

Do not be distracted by those who would deflect and criticize her lifestyle. Be fair, think and judge her on what she has written.

My Perspective on Islam

Rasheed Talib   Aug 7, 2003   interacts: 56

Humanists cannot endorse terrorist targeting of innocents no matter how just the cause

Open Letter to O. B. Laden

Shahgul    Sep 14, 2001   interacts: 106

Bin Laden! Yes, I am talking to you. Person to person.

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