Deal or No Deal

Swat is part of Pakistan’s Malakand division bordering Afghanistan and administered by the provincial government of Pakistan’s North West Province. Till recently it was the most idyllic and peaceful tourist destination in Pakistan. Two years of Taliban instigated violence...

Militants declare indifinite ceasefire in restive Pakistan region

After the government in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) signed an accord with a hardline cleric for enforcement of Islamic law in Malakand Division, including the restive Swat valley a few days ago, the militants who were fighting the security forces...

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and His Divine Message for Mankind

A Sufi saint’s shrine that was built in 1356 in Sehwan, in the province of Sindh, is the hub of activity these days by millions of his devotees in Pakistan. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, whose annual death anniversary...

Iraqi Ghost Dance

" Maliki's Shiite Iraqi Government orchestrated a deliberate slaughter of Muslim heretics this weekend in Iraq."

My Favorite Muslim

The school of Islam that most represents the heresy of Gnosticism, freethinking, the enlightenment values that so offend the fundamentalist Christian, Jew and Muslim alike, is Sufism.One of the greatest Sufi...

Ibn Khaldun 14th Century Arab Libertarian

Often in the West we are given to believing the portrait painted by the media of the Middle East as a unitary Islamic culture, one that has no liberal traditions and is under the dominant authority of the Mullahs. I had not heard of Ibn Khaldun before and so I googled him he...

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