Hindustan Times
Khatawar samjhegi duniya tujhe
Ab itni bhi safayi na de
(Your guilt may become apparent, if you try to prove your innocence so much…) Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.7 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Bihari Vajpayee, babri masjid, BJP, Congress leaders, conspiracy, demolition, Liberhan Commission, RSS
Socialism and Islam both have a PR problem: a permanent rarefaction problem. Both look antiquated and suspicious.
Even as faith in free markets falters, socialism’s best goal — people-before-profits — belongs in the historical dustbin. Islam’s humane principles of self-introspection and socialist goals of a greedless economy have hit a similar cul-de-sac. Read more
(13 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged Communist Party, Communists, free market, International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, Islam, permanent rarefaction, philosophe movement, Socialism
“Welcome to the school of terror. Let me show you our terrorists, 3,800 in all,” jokes 70-year-old public relations officer Adil Siddiqui, pointing to students milling around a notice board in the main courtyard of Darul-Uloom, Deoband.
Siddiqui’s humour borders on sarcasm: “Had it not been for bin Laden, you would not have come visiting us.” Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged bin Laden, Darul-Uloom, Deoband, fatwa, General Knowledge, Geography, Hindi, history, Mathematics, Persian, Urdu
Cheap thrills come at a price and it must have run into crores. How else can you get half a million clerics to oppose India’s sanitized national song, Vande Mataram? Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Indian Muslim clerics, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Jawaharlal Nehru, Liberhan report, Muslims, Vande Mataram
I had no consternation that, as one of the many hosts and facilitators of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, I would be attending to guests at a gala dinner where President George W. Bush would be the star attraction.
Here was a man who I think had wrecked much of the Muslim world. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Hindustan Times, India, Leadership Summit, Muslim world, presidency, President George W. Bush, violent extremism
