Talibanization
Islam is now safe in a country that is 97% muslim
Today a bill floored by MP Bhandara to alter the blasphemy laws, to provide equal protection to the prophets and founders of minority religions like Christianity and Buddhism on par with the protection provided to prophet Mohammad, was rejected and then verbally trampled upon by Sher Afgan (the federal minister for parliamentary affairs). Mr Bhandara had argued [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 10 so far )Was the whole Lal masjid issue an ISI produced drama?
That question has been asked by numerous people. It is a natural question considering the heavy fisted treatment metted out to previous challengers to the Pakistani establishment. Civil and Military governments in pakistan have not been known to handle the threat of armed opposition lightly. And neither should they. Anarchists have to be dealt with severely to ensure peace [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Burqay ke neeche kya hai, pardey ke peche kya hai
photo from bbcurdu.com
This news is a bit old, but we have had it under warming lamps and it is still consumable. So lets have at it with some karak chai and a couple of fresh khatais for good measure. The government has recently stopped Ajoka Theaters from conducting any further performances of its satirical musical production [...]
There is no compulsion in Islam
A lot of people are coming to my blog through a search for a Hadith that allows ’stopping evil with their own hands’. Yes, such a saying does exist in a book compiled decades after the death of the prophet and his companions. The Quran in my view takes precedance over all hadith. For those who are looking for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )The Land Grab behind the Lal Masjid / Jamia Hafsa drama
Ninjas from the Jamia Hafsa have been illegally occupying the children’s library. Mind you it is the only public children’s library in the capital city of Islamabad. That alone says some things about the priorities of our people but lets save that for a later thread. When I first heard the news, I was a little bemused and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Nilofar, Seenay nal lag ja, tha kar ke
I have spent two days trawling the web for the supposedly racy picture of the Nilofar Bakhtiar that earned her a fatwa from the Halwa courts at Lal Masjid. Will someone please show me. I am somewhat of a collector of inappropriate female images and would love to have the one that earned our tourism minister the wrath of the Halwa [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Ab tera kya banega Kaliya
On Friday, the citizens of Islamabad were blessed with the establishment of a new court system, with its own jurisprudence, and its own methods of imposing verdicts. The Lal Masjid mufti courts have been established by a group of rebellious islamists. It is going to run parallel to the two existing parallel court system that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Pakistan’s blood red Temple of Doom: Lal Masjid
A person commented in our piece on the Jamia Hafsa drama and tried to insinuate that we and some moderate visitors to this blog were unaware of the situation on ground in Islamabad. That we had somehow just become aware of Lal Masjid as this terrorist threat became public fodder. No my friends, we are [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Hope is alive; Lal masjid website taken down
Yes, our lovely patrons, the online mouthpiece of the blood red temple of doom is out of commission.
The talibaan of Islamabad went out of their way today when they set up their court system and threatened the government and people of Pakistan with suicide bombings. I am hoping that this is a permanent thing. Hopefully initiated [...]
Letter to General Musharraf
I wrote a letter to General Musharraf today. I have intentionally kept it brief since I wrote it at work. I will write a detailed article (may be 100 since the issue is very big) at later stages.
Mr. President,
Today I want to write to you about an issue that has been bothering me for [...]
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