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Articles with tag: sunni

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.

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.

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?

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