Saturday, 26 February 2011

The niqab: a reader’s rejoinder to the Grand Moofti

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Free will is an awesome thing. It allows humans to behave in accordance with their own beliefs, subject to any restrictions placed by law. A...
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Libya catches the ‘Tunisian Flu,’ the Arabian Peninsula resists

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Change comes rapidly, more so if it has been repressed for several decades. Such is the case with the Arab world where the latest strongman ...
Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Social integration, Singapore’s shariah law and Minister Mentor Lee

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Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (MM Lee) did some straight talking recently. MM Lee is quoted as saying, " I would say tod...
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Saturday, 12 February 2011

Fables of Pakistan’s Tezgam Express and the suspension of time

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It is said that nobody walks in LA, unless they are compelled by circumstance. In Pakistan, few travel by train, unless they too are compell...
Thursday, 3 February 2011

American ‘terrorist’ arrested in Pakistan

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An American male going by the name of Raymond Davis was recently arrested after shooting dead two civilians in a busy Lahore neighbourhood. ...
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Monday, 31 January 2011

Tunisia, Egypt and the ‘new and improved’ Arab state

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The way events in Egypt are moving, if I do not put pen to paper today my thoughts will be stale by tomorrow! The world has seen the removal...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Stranger in a strange land

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Home: one's place of residence; the social unit formed by a family living together; a familiar or usual setting, congenial environment; ...