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ISIS: Christians Worse Than Murderers

Editor note: There are now increasing voices in the international media who are using specific terminologies like Wahabi, Salafi and Deobandi to identify the guiding ideologies of violent facist groups … Continue reading

February 28, 2015 · 1 Comment

SOS from Pakistan: Influential pro-Taliban Deobandi hate cleric threatens rights activists and bloggers

Voice of Sunnis (VoS), a popular Pakistani blogzine known for bold opposition to Taliban and ISIS-affiliate terrorist group ASWJ, condemns bullying, threatening and harassing of Sunni Sufi and Shia bloggers … Continue reading

February 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

Award winning Jewish journalist exposes Israel’s policy of backing ‪‎ISIS‬ aka Syrian rebels

  Not a soul could help but be outraged by the two recent atrocities that the Islamic State (IS) has unleashed upon the world. The first of these was the … Continue reading

February 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

Names of the Immaculate Twelve Imams as they Appear at the Prophet Muhammad’s (S) Mosque, al-Madinah al-Munawara, KSA

The names of the Twelve Imams of Ahl al-Bayt at Masjid An-Nabawi sallallahu alaihi wa aalhi wa sallam.  Included here are the names; ‘Ali al-Murtaza,  Hasan as-Sibt, Husayn as-Sibt, Abul … Continue reading

February 26, 2015 · Leave a comment

From Ibn Taymiyyah To Daish (ISIS/ISIL) – by Sidq Miqal

The gruesome incineration of the Jordanian Pilot by Da’ish (ISIS) in Iraq has shocked many around the world. However, more than countering merely the violence and the mayhem, the current … Continue reading

February 8, 2015 · Leave a comment

Saudi Arabia a ‘breeding ground’ for terrorism, imam tells committee – Amanda Connolly

  Through its relationship with Saudi Arabia, Canada has allied itself with a “breeding ground” for terrorism, a Calgary imam told a Senate committee Monday afternoon. Imam Syed Soharwardy told the … Continue reading

February 4, 2015 · 1 Comment

A comment on Vali Nasr’s lecture in Karachi on “Sectarianism in Muslim politics globally and in Pakistan”

Related post: Vali Nasr’s problematic discourse on ‘Sunni-Shia sectarianism’ On 22 November 2014, Vali Nasr delivered a lecture at the Habib University Karachi on the “growing role of sectarianism in … Continue reading

February 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

King Salman’s shady past – Rafia Zakaria

  It has been a month dominated by Saudi Arabia. Last week, I wrote about the beheading of a Burmese woman in the Holy City of Makkah. The Saudi King … Continue reading

February 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

King Abdullah (satire) – a discreet but strong advocate of women – by Syed Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji.

  “What do you call the unelected leader of a state that beheads people in public, permits only one faith and exports an extreme form of Islam to other countries? … Continue reading

January 30, 2015 · Leave a comment

Saudi King’s death and West’s double standards – by Jim Pivonka

  “John Kerry on King Abdullah: “King Abdullah was a man of wisdom & vision.” “John Kerry on Hugo Chavez: “Throughout his time in office, President Chavez has repeatedly undermined … Continue reading

January 24, 2015 · 1 Comment

Some Thoughts in the Aftermath of the Tragedy in Paris – by AZ

  Nothing at all justifies the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo’s journalists, still less on the Jewish victims chosen only for their religious and ethnic identity. The aftermath of such … Continue reading

January 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Paris shootings, Tariq Ali and the Deobandi Wahhabi apologia

  Tariq Ali continues to ofbuscate and justify transnational Wahhabi-Deobandi terrorism behind pseudo post-colonial, Marxist and anti-imperial discourse and the allegations of Islamophobia. In his explanation of the Charlie Hebdo … Continue reading

January 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Genocide Alert from Syria: 40,000 Shia Muslims of Nabul and Zahra villages near Aleppo face massacre at the hands of ISIS-Nusra terrorists

  The towns of Nubul and Zahra constitute strategically valuable areas given their close proximity to a highway which links the major Syrian city of Aleppo and Syria’s frontier with … Continue reading

January 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

British Deobandi hate cleric backs the Paris massacres

A British hate preacher backed the Paris massacres just hours after the bloody events unfolded and told his followers ‘Britain is the enemy of Islam’. Cleric Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers … Continue reading

January 15, 2015 · Leave a comment

Zaid Ali, the lighter shade of Deobandi Wahhabi evangelism

  “Before discovering the truth, perhaps the only thing that had bothered me about Zaid Ali was how he wore his religion on his sleeve, and constantly boasted about his … Continue reading

January 13, 2015 · Leave a comment

Pakistani American cleric Nouman Ali Khan is slowly converting peaceful Sunni Muslims to radical Deobandi and Wahhabi

Not unlike Farhat Hashmi, Zakir Naik, Israr Ahmed and other pro-Taliban Deobandi and Salafi Wahhabi clerics, Nouman Ali Khan, a Pakistan-origin American Deobandi cleric, former Saudi resident, is slowly converting … Continue reading

January 13, 2015 · Leave a comment

World remains silent while Saudis flog bloggers: selective morality by the West

  Editor’s note: World’s reaction to free speech appears to be hypocritical when we compare double standards on Charlie Hebdo and Saudi blogger. Many fake liberals refuse to acknowledge the … Continue reading

January 12, 2015 · Leave a comment

From Paris to Rawalpindi: The great Wahabi-Deobandi blowback – by Laleen Ahmad

  The Wahhabi-Deobandi mindset makes no distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims. The people practicing this mindset kill anyone who does not agree with their Takfiri ideology. In Paris, these Wahabi-Deobandis … Continue reading

January 11, 2015 · Leave a comment

The Perils of Embedded Journalism: How Jürgen Todenhöfer ends up glamourising ISIS

  In his interviews with ISIS which he highlighted on  ABC and CNN as well as his own Facebook note, German Journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer  glamourises ISIS and misrepresents their “success”.  His … Continue reading

January 5, 2015 · Leave a comment

Jordanian Fighter Pilot captured by ISIS: Malfunction or Malice?

Fahwad Al-Khadoumi (nsnbc) :  On Wednesday, ISIS claimed that it downed a Jordanian fighter jet near the city of al-Raqqah, displaying photos of the captured pilot. The Jordanian Air Force … Continue reading

December 26, 2014 · Leave a comment