The artificial doctrines belted from the pulpits every week are sweeping away the legacy of Islam’s freethinkers, especially at a time when it is needed the most with sectarian warfare within Islam getting bloodier by the year.
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Radical Islam as a political tool took shape in the 9th century, when the ordinances for sharia as divinely ordained and accepted in their totality without question were invented.
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Western imported ideas did indeed bring great wealth to the Muslim world, but it was accumulated by upper-class minorities, who built cocoons of modern enclaves far away from the daily grind of the common people, whose fears were already exploited by superstitious mullahs and extremists.
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Former Pakistani ambassador to the US, UK & UN, Maleeha Lodhi’s column on Assault on Kashmiri Identity in ‘Dawn’ is full of ISI propaganda written in collaboration with half-separatist dynast politicians, militants-turned-leaders and some unnamed Kashmiri journalists.
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The whole field of Islamophobia has been developed to shut off any criticism of regressive practises in Muslim culture.
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Any organic movement against the veil in India is seen as a conspiracy against the Muslims and Islam.
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The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish province of Iran, sparked demonstrations in Tehran and the Kurdistan province from which she came.
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Indian Muslims generally can make fun of gods and goddesses of other faiths, but when it comes to their own, out come the swords and stones.
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Doubt is not new or modern, doubt has been an ancient practice ever since humans started gazing at the stars, trying to figure out…
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Hasan Suroor in his book ‘Who Killed Liberal Islam’ keeps reiterating that Muslim liberals or those who are not practising Muslims or summarily reject Sharia…
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