Islamist extremism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin. Both are products of fear breeding fear, scapegoating, the glorification of irrationalism, and a crisis of identity resolved through violence and bigotry, writes Nadeem ...
This is a piece of satire. Dear fellow Muslims, especially those toiling in non-Muslim countries. How are you? When I began to play cricket, I was just a young impressionable fellow toiling in the UK. ...
1: The Anti-Ayub Movement (1968-69) After a decade of political chaos, military chief Ayub Khan imposed the country’s first martial law in 1958. It was initially a popular coup which Ayub explained as a ‘revolution.’ ...
In 2018, I happened to come across a rather intriguing poster. While driving back from work in the evening I saw it wrapped around an electricity pole. It had a Photoshopped image of Prime Minister ...
The past is not always history In August 1947, when Pakistan came into being, its founders almost immediately rushed out to describe the new country as an entity which was different from India and had ...
In 1896, an Islamic scholar presented Sir Syed Ahmad Khan the manuscript of a book that he had written. Days later, Sir Syed, who had by then established himself as one of South Asia’s most ...
According to the Canadian philosopher Charles Tylor, three categories of secularism have evolved since the proper emergence of the idea —mainly from the 18th century onwards. He describes “Secularity 1” as the total expulsion of ...
Religion used as a cynical political ploy by political parties and by a reactionary dictatorship was a project controlled from the top, but one which eventually trickled down to become an uncontrollable social tendency below, ...
“Even though Islamic Socialism borrowed heavily from Muslim Modernism, it saw the latter as an entity that was enacted to deal with colonialism but needed a new dimension in the post-colonial setting”, Nadeem F Paracha ...
In 1965 a lengthy paper titled, ‘Peasants and Revolution,’ caused a considerable storm in the international academic circles associated with the left. The paper was authored by Pakistani social scientist and historian, Hamza Alavi. The ...
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