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A. Shiraz is the founder of the Secular Pakistan Movement.
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Idolizing the Koran
A Shiraz Jul 29, 2005 interacts: 99 Views: 14743When Muslims dare to understand not just the Koran but the Torah and the Bible they will most certainly regain what they seem to have lost and cannot attain. May we all attain our heavens!
The Utility of Art
A Shiraz May 25, 2005 interacts: 5 Views: 3006What could be the cause of an American’s life of “happy mediocrity”? Why do Americans spend their money on charity and space travel over artwork?
Religiosity Vs. Piety
A Shiraz Feb 1, 2005 interacts: 9 Views: 3038Despite the fact that Privates of the US Army engaged in conduct unbecoming officers Muslims have to recognize that they are not fighting Americans nor Christians but hate and sin.
Gladiator Musharraf of Pakistan
A Shiraz Jan 24, 2005 interacts: 26 Views: 4487Do not lay down your sword nor your firearm for the land of the Pure has been under an evil eye since her birth...This time build our institutions, give her a constitution and a set of values we agree upon and then give Pakistan back to her people
Church vs Mosque
A Shiraz Sep 7, 2004 interacts: 138 Views: 14780I ought to have discussed more religion with the girl but instead I ran outside the church and skipped all the way home.
Dear Sisters, Meet Maria Sharapova
A Shiraz Jul 8, 2004 interacts: 303 Views: 66942This is the story of a father who took a chance that his ten-year-old daughter from Siberia can be great. Thanks to the opportunities offered by the free world Maria Sharapova is what no practicing, veiled, Muslim woman can ever be.
Protestant Introspection Is Destiny
A Shiraz Jul 6, 2004 interacts: 37 Views: 3784Today the American-Black community is the envy of the world. The world is envious because introspection and self-criticism takes courage and requires insight that pierces.
Muslims Vs. Modernity
A Shiraz Jun 17, 2004 interacts: 110 Views: 13451A 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?
What Is the Point of Marriage?
A Shiraz Mar 17, 2004 interacts: 52 Views: 12825All went well until people began to fall in love with anyone and everyone.
A New Identity
A Shiraz Mar 6, 2004 interacts: 45 Views: 6625You were not born Muslims or Christians or Jews. You were born human beings. They uttered the religious creed in your ear and mutilated your genitals and asked you to ignore your passport and assassinate the leaders of your country and obey religious men
The Immoral Family
A Shiraz Mar 2, 2004 interacts: 48 Views: 8926The most obedient youth form the more corrupt societies.
Valentine’s Day
A Shiraz Feb 14, 2004 interacts: 69 Views: 8296The Saudis were combating Valentine’s Day by raiding flower shops, gift stores and retail outlets and confiscating everything that resembled a red heart.
Nuns and Tawaifs
A Shiraz Jul 9, 2000 interacts: 33 Views: 5923I remembered my father grimace at Indian actresses dancing in movies.
The day I got circumcised
A Shiraz Jun 12, 2000 interacts: 102 Views: 19915a purple bank note (50 rupees!!) if I go through the operation like a man. . .
Touch
A Shiraz May 25, 2000 interacts: 29 Views: 5872In the West, by the way, that is where our son will eventually go to study...they brutally electrocute an animal to death...
The Interview
A Shiraz May 17, 2000 interacts: 51 Views: 6754If woman display her beauty she asking to be raped. She advertizing her beauty just like a pastry in a window shelf. . .
A Shiraz
- Articles on Chowk: 18
- First article: Mar 27, 2000
- Latest article: Jul 29, 2005
- Times read on Chowk: 230686
