Tag Archive for Islamism

Pakistan: The Need for a Resurgent left

by Masood Raja • July 11, 2011

When I hope for a resurgent left in Pakistan, I am in no way hoping for a centralized Communist Party or even a regular Marxist political party with its central and regional hierarchy. I am, instead, hoping for the revival…

by Masood Raja • July 7, 2011

There is myth in the public politics of the nation that underwrites the political narrative of religious political parties. It is a myth of a sacred and unsullied past. The common belief is that if the nation could, somehow, retrieve…

by Masood Raja • July 3, 2011

Secularizing Islamists?: Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at-ud-Da’wa in Urban Pakistan By Humeira Iqtidar Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • May 7, 2011

It is grotesque to see media anchors like Hamid Mir in Pakistan refer to Bin Laden as “shaheed”—as though the man was a martyr in any Islamic sense. What a travesty of belief ! And that there were processions in…

by Mustafa Qadri • February 22, 2011

(From Mustafaqadri.net) Blasphemy is the one thing that Pakistani Islamists agree on. The murder of a secular liberal politician has prompted a worrying union of Islamists and the Taliban. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws make it a crime to defile the Quran…

by Masood Raja • January 30, 2011

(From Mashal books) Speaker: Maulana Mumtaz Kalyar Location: Jamia Masjid Hanafiya, Jaranwala, Faisalabad. Sect: Deobandi Language: Urdu Time: June 2010 Audio: Trascript: You who say things against Deobandi sect cannot show me scholars on your side equal to one-fourth of…

by Masood Raja • January 30, 2011

(From Mashal Books) Speaker: Maulana Syed Shafaullah Location: Jamia Masjid Muhammadiya, Phalia, Mandi Bahauddin Sect: Deobandi Language: Urdu Time: June 2010 Audio: Partial Clip: (Go Here for Full Audio Clip) Transcript: Allah told His Prophet PBUH in the 14th section…

by Masood Raja • January 30, 2011

(From Mashal Books) Maulana Raza Saqib Speaker: Maulana Raza Saqib Location: Jamia Masjid, Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat, Rawalpindi Sect: Barelvi Language: Urdu Time: June 2010 Audio: Transcript: When Muslim refugees arrived in the court of Negus in Abyssinia, King Negus…

by Mustafa Qadri • January 19, 2011

Image by Salmaan Taseer via Flickr (From mustafaqadri.net). guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 December 2010 15.00 GMT While the country reels from flood devastation, an increasing gap between rich and poor, and a ceaseless energy recession, Pakistan’s religious lobby has lined up…