Islam Watch Archive

  • This incident just reaffirms–doesn’t shock me–that all is well in the Islamic Republic of Jammu & Kashmir. In what could turn out to be a major embarrassment for the Jammu and Kashmir government, a senior PDP MLA offered prayers at the graves of nine militants...

    Sunday Spoiler: Ministers Pray for Terrorists

    This incident just reaffirms–doesn’t shock me–that all is well in the Islamic Republic of Jammu & Kashmir. In what could turn out to be a major embarrassment for the Jammu and Kashmir government, a senior PDP MLA offered prayers at the graves of nine militants...

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  • India wins the crucial 20-20 cup in an exhilarating match against arch-rivals Pakistan. The whole country celebrates. But–and as expected, we always have souls violently disenchanted with their own nation’s victory. A group of youths who were celebrating the Indian team’s victory in the Twenty...

    Islam and Cricket

    India wins the crucial 20-20 cup in an exhilarating match against arch-rivals Pakistan. The whole country celebrates. But–and as expected, we always have souls violently disenchanted with their own nation’s victory. A group of youths who were celebrating the Indian team’s victory in the Twenty...

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  • Pankaj Mishra wants us to believe that Islamic terrorism is the product of Western imperialism. The whole article is comedy par excellence but it’s both dangerous and sad that lots of people take him seriously. We would see how much radical Islamist movements are a...

    Islamic Terrorism is the West’s Creation

    Pankaj Mishra wants us to believe that Islamic terrorism is the product of Western imperialism. The whole article is comedy par excellence but it’s both dangerous and sad that lots of people take him seriously. We would see how much radical Islamist movements are a...

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  • I didn’t want to blog the Bhagalpur brutality: Indian cops are brutal sadists, worse things happen within the police darkrooms so…. yawwwwn. But as it always, unceasingly, invariably, and unfailingly happens in India, a minor incident like this suddenly becomes a Muslim…err….Majority vs Minority issue....

    When a Thief Becomes a Muslim

    I didn’t want to blog the Bhagalpur brutality: Indian cops are brutal sadists, worse things happen within the police darkrooms so…. yawwwwn. But as it always, unceasingly, invariably, and unfailingly happens in India, a minor incident like this suddenly becomes a Muslim…err….Majority vs Minority issue....

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  • I hate these irritants…like unwanted commercial breaks that disturb life’s endless party. Who wants to know how many infidels innocent citizens were killed? We have so many left to slaughter. Thankfully, we have a government that increasingly, is acting like a Facilitator. Let me know...

    Switch the Channels

    I hate these irritants…like unwanted commercial breaks that disturb life’s endless party. Who wants to know how many infidels innocent citizens were killed? We have so many left to slaughter. Thankfully, we have a government that increasingly, is acting like a Facilitator. Let me know...

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  • Our cops seem to be eager to perfectly fit the mould that Bollywood/Indian cinema has set for them. The Hyderabad police have registered a case against controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was recently attacked by workers of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in Hyderabad, for...

    Theatre of the Absurd

    Our cops seem to be eager to perfectly fit the mould that Bollywood/Indian cinema has set for them. The Hyderabad police have registered a case against controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who was recently attacked by workers of Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in Hyderabad, for...

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  • Introduction Sudha Ramachandran, an independent researcher makes grave omissions in an article focussed on Buddhism’s revival vis a vis India and China. Every nation fighting for supremacy in the world seeks to capture influence in as many spheres as its heritage affords it. Education is...

    Reconstructing Nalanda

    Introduction Sudha Ramachandran, an independent researcher makes grave omissions in an article focussed on Buddhism’s revival vis a vis India and China. Every nation fighting for supremacy in the world seeks to capture influence in as many spheres as its heritage affords it. Education is...

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  • Most Indian regional languages use Tattva Shastra as an equivalent of Philosophy. The word Philosophy–meaning love(r) of knowledge or wisdom–is quite inadequate to define or explain the full import of Tattva Shastra. One of the fundamental aphorisms that embodies the whole of Sanatana Dharma in...

    That Which Shall Not be Named is Now Explained

    Most Indian regional languages use Tattva Shastra as an equivalent of Philosophy. The word Philosophy–meaning love(r) of knowledge or wisdom–is quite inadequate to define or explain the full import of Tattva Shastra. One of the fundamental aphorisms that embodies the whole of Sanatana Dharma in...

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  • Is the Lal Masjid. Remember what happened to Indira Gandhi? Long Live the Dictator. Tweet

    Musharraf’s Golden Temple

    Is the Lal Masjid. Remember what happened to Indira Gandhi? Long Live the Dictator. Tweet

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  • Aavarana is a book Indian secular intellectuals love to hate but cannot ignore. The “average reader” (which increasingly means someone endowed with commonsense, a healthy sense of balance, and has not mortgaged brains at the ideological altar) chose to respond differently. In the miniscule market...

    Book Review: AAVARANA

    Aavarana is a book Indian secular intellectuals love to hate but cannot ignore. The “average reader” (which increasingly means someone endowed with commonsense, a healthy sense of balance, and has not mortgaged brains at the ideological altar) chose to respond differently. In the miniscule market...

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  • Has been put into action overwhelmingly, by the media. After Gujarat 2002, this operation is the second illegitimate offsping of the copulation of Secular Politics and Secular Media. I was laughing at the Times Now (you can apply this line to most secular News channels) news anchor’s...

    Operation Terminate Modi: Part 2

    Has been put into action overwhelmingly, by the media. After Gujarat 2002, this operation is the second illegitimate offsping of the copulation of Secular Politics and Secular Media. I was laughing at the Times Now (you can apply this line to most secular News channels) news anchor’s...

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  • A barefooted painter lives in Cuffe Parade. He spends his time globe-hopping when he’s not obsessed with the anatomical details of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. In an interview to the Sunday Slimes some years ago, he defiantly proclaims that he neither “regrets” nor “apologizes” for...

    Come Home Hussain

    A barefooted painter lives in Cuffe Parade. He spends his time globe-hopping when he’s not obsessed with the anatomical details of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. In an interview to the Sunday Slimes some years ago, he defiantly proclaims that he neither “regrets” nor “apologizes” for...

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