Human Rights Watch talk about the Kashmir situation: Behind The Kashmir Conflict Summary The dramatic escalation in May 1999 of cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan, and fighting between Indian troops and militants who have crossed over from Pakistan, have focused international attention on the security implications of the conflict. But the pattern of systematic [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Kashmir, Fake Encounters and the Indian Army
Posted in Articles, History, India, Islam, Mosque, Politics, terrorism on February 28, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Tounge is Mightier Than the Sword
Posted in Mosque, Politics, terrorism on February 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I posted it long back on my old blog. I am reposting it for those who are interested in Pakistan. UPDATE: (Warning:) This is in Urdu. About 23 mins.
Is the Qur’an Eternal?
Posted in Islam on February 26, 2007 | 9 Comments »
We were discussing Ayan Hirsi Ali at Id‘s blog. There he asks “how can a book, 1400 years old, can still be relevant?”. I can not access blogspot for some days. So I will try to answer here. — Let me ask- how do we set this time scale? Situations changed a lot within the [...]
Religion Makes Fittest
Posted in Articles, History, Islam, Religion, Science on February 24, 2007 | 21 Comments »
“… and fear Allah, so that you may prosper” the Qur’an (2:189) — An estimated 84% of the world’s population attach themselves to one religion or the other. 16% of the world’s population do not. Even some of them may not be Atheists. Just does not like institutionalised religion.
Flop
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I took my last post off the hook. It was in no way relevant to this Blog. Apologies.
Digg
Posted in News on February 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Frends and fellow bloggers on wordpress, digging is easier now. I guess you already know about it. I just want to point out in case you have not. Digg is a social recommendation site. You like some news, blog, or whatever: you digg it (which means you vote for it) by clicking on a button [...]
Walking in Tehran
Posted in iran, Islam on February 22, 2007 | 20 Comments »
I watched the video I referred to yesterday. I liked Tehran. I saw lanes of south Tehran before, in Children of Heaven. I was surprised to see that Tehran has an underground rail. That too, very slick. Well yeah, I did underestimate Tehran. A quick search told me the metro was built around 1995, and [...]
Carpets of Iran
Posted in iran, Mosque on February 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
An Persian man making a (persian) carpet. I have added a video to the video page. It’s called Inside Tehran. Check it out. ( peoplesgeography led me to the video)
The Mongol Catastrophe and Aurangzeb
Posted in History, India, Islam, Mosque, Politics, Religion on February 20, 2007 | 42 Comments »
I come across some funny opinions. Mongol Catastrophe This (http://www.islam-watch.org/HistoryOfJihad/jihad_against_mongols.htm) was rather interesting. To quote this writer: “…The relatively unknown story of how the Jihadis tormented the Mongols and Turks leading to a fierce and vicious counter-attack by the Mongols on Islamdom from 1200 to 1258. An attack that was fiercer than the Crusades and [...]
Closer Fights
Posted in History, iran, Religion on February 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A few days ago I posted an opinion that two cultures, close enough, cause more friction than two far apart. Diganta protested. I promised I will come back to it. This is a rethought. — We saw that in some cases two close cultures cause no friction, two alien ones do. The determining factor seems [...]
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