Articles with tag: shia

Don't Shoot the Messenger

Shandana Minhas Sep 21, 2008 interacts: 11

We can go blue in the face shouting about the pernicious predators, but we stay silent while innocents are slain within our own borders.

Impressions about Iran

Muhammad Tariq Mar 26, 2007 interacts: 67

The world has gone wrong somewhere in understanding them or stereotyping them with other Islamic fundamentalists like the Talibans.

Muslim Profanities

Kyla Pasha Feb 24, 2006 interacts: 53

I look at pictures of the ravaged Al-Askariyya dome, and I want to know: what is the religion of a mosque-destroyer? Does a bomber say Fatiha over the people he’s killed?

Would 30 January Elections Make or Break Iraq?

Gajendra Singh Dec 11, 2004 interacts: 20

Like Pakistani military did not allow a Bengali to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Iraq’s Sunni leadership, with enough funds and experienced and trained men at its command is not going to give up its long established right of being the rulin

You Failed Us Mr. President

Mubashir Butt Oct 12, 2004 interacts: 41

In the words of great Martin Luther King Jr.: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice' and justice we demand from you sir.

Living in Fear

Batool Ali Jun 11, 2004 interacts: 33

I remember, a few years back, after a majlis, one of my relatives took out a white dupatta from her bag and wore it before leaving. “They can tell you’re Shia if you wear black in Muharram”

Ashura: Atonement, Mourning and Return

Kyla Pasha Mar 2, 2004 interacts: 122

Someone’s holy work is death, I register. And someone else’s is reporting that 150-word story for the AP. And someone else’s yet again is that bold typeface. This is it. This is grief for the electronic age.

On Tolerance

Ayesha H Ahmad Jan 20, 2004 interacts: 58

Everyone cannot kill a human being. But do you support the people who say that Shiites are not Muslims?