Muslims in Denial of Collective Responsibility?

After reading( http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071755660800.htm ) Hasan Suroor in The Hindu dated Jul17, I remembered a laconic fable I read as a kid. A wolf and a kid are drinking water from the same stream. The wolf upstream, the kid downstream. The wolf wants to savour the kid. So, he goes- “Hey, why are you making my [...]

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The Silver Line: Rebuilding the Women Victims of The War on Terror

I am quite impressed with Zainab Salbi. It is very difficult and perhaps inappropriate to pass a judgement about someone in just one encounter, but I really liked her efforts to rebuild woman’s lives. Another thing that made me very happy is that a lot of women, who lost their husbands in the September the [...]

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Islamic Terror, Muslim Terror

There are some people who still think that the sun is going around the earth.  I have met one of them personally. He argued that what he was saying was scientifically correct. Can his argument be called scientific? If not, then there can never be Islamic Terror. There can never be Peace Terror. What do [...]

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Ijtema (Muslim Bloggers) is Back Up and Another Islam Link

After remaining down for four days, Ijtema (the Congregation of Muslim Bloggers) has been up and running from tuesday. The traffic hasn’t cought up yet, but it will, InshaAllah. Somehow, during last month, I felt there’s a draught of good posts. Some bloggers decided to go on hiatus, or to sign off. Many have come [...]

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Glasgow Bombing Attempt among Other Things

Let me first express my anger and dismay at the terrorist’s attempt. Yet, There’s a huge flow of misinformation and blown up information out there. That seems to take even sensible people hostage. Three or four related news came up very close- 1. Australia admitted that they invaded Iraq for oil- (crores of people were [...]

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(Sigh!)

Allan Johnston is freed. BBC Editor’s blog has thanked everybody for their support, except Hamas- those who ensured the freedom. Why am I not surprised? This response of a Ghazan journalist is particularly appalling. ————— Australia has been the first to admit that securing oil was the reason they participated in the genocide of the [...]

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Allan Johnston is free

Wow! I pray that Sami will one day, too!

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Media-II: Power and Weakness

(Probably) starting from the First World War, Media became a very important part of Politics. As a result of the Allied propaganda offensive, even the German population, towards the end of WW-I, started feeling that Germany waged the war, and it was unjustified in doing so. (I am supporting neither- just presenting what happened.) Media [...]

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Blood Diamond

Sometime back, I read IMeMy about this movie. I hadn’t watched it then. Now I have. I am not a literary character. So I’ll look at the movie with a different perspective. I will try to relate it with reality. The intention behind making this movie seemed noble. It has drawn the dreary picture with [...]

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Delhi Clearing Poor Street Vendors

It is only normal that the poor has to make way for the rich! ———————— Reliance vegetable market: Today I saw, for the first time, Reliance vegetable market. They have a nice tiled shop. Beautiful and ugly. The beauty is only skin deep. These shops, that has recently been cleared, will wipe out many of [...]

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