Hindustan Times
There is a thing or two about the government’s approach towards Muslims that is worrisome. One of them is that the government sometimes takes Muslims too seriously!
Take for instance the UPA government’s somewhat anxious efforts to streamline madrassa education, a system of education which is not just largely informal but its curriculum is also often viewed as irrelevant. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Filed under India · Tagged community’s leaders, Muslims, UPA government
If Muslim-perpetrated terror creates Islamophobia; smart counter-insurgency should be able to purge it (by eliminating terrorism). Abusive counter-terrorism on the other hand fuels more terror and, therefore, more Islamophobia. Muslims clearly have more at stake in the war on terror than others do. Read more
(7 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 11:52 am
Filed under India · Tagged discrimination against minorities, fundamentalists, Hindu-Muslim unity, human right, India, Islam, Mumbai, Muslim lawmakers, terrorist
Not entirely unanticipated but a surprise nonetheless. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for President Obama has been received with churlish criticism and variously interpreted as a Nobel for political stardom and stirring speeches. It has also been called “a premature Nobel”. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Filed under World · Tagged 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Norwegian Nobel Committee, president barack obama
History is bu-ran-ji in Assamese, the only word from the now-extinct Tai tribal language of the Ahom people — who ruled Assam’s Brahmaputra valley between the 13th and 18th century — to have survived. Assamese replaced Tai in the early 19th century.
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(10 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Filed under India · Tagged AASU, ahom, All Assam Students’ Union, Assam, assamese, Azaan Fakir, Bangladesh, Bhupen Hazarika, buranji, communal clash, communitarian harmony, history, immigrant Muslims, Nellie, Shankardev, Tai
