taliban school slaughter

The mind-numbing savagery of radical Islam plumbed new depths in Pakistan yesterday. Taliban terrorists shouting “Allahu akbar” attacked the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, slaughtering 142 people, including 132 children between the ages of six and 16. ..

political islam: a marxist analysis

Finally, it offers method for how progressives and left might view Islam, outlining the approach taken by Marxists and revolutionaries, with particular emphasis on the theory and practice formulated during the first few years of Comintern, the body of radicals formed after Russian Revolution. ..

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the u.s. is eager to end its longest war. in interview, taliban gives

“We have gotten away with some very symbolic gestures about giving women rights under Islam.” . When pressed whether the Taliban would continue to stone women to death for adultery or flog them in the streets, Shaheen demurred, saying those decisions would be taken by Islamic scholars..

faith and feminism in pakistan

Secularists in general and feminist secularists in particular face an uphill task in a state claimed and won in the name of Islam. . . The Islamic revolution of Iran, the animated fundamentalist Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia and the Taliban created a highly charged international situation..

monthly review

It is they who mobilized the obscurantist forces of Pakistan-style political Islam (the Taliban) and the warlords (the tribal leaders successfully neutralized by the so-called communist regime), and they who trained and armed them. ..

they’re only sleeping

The other major Sunni Islam sect that found a foothold in Central Asia was Wahhabism. ... Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema Islam Party, which later backed the Taliban, raised funds for Yuldashev in Peshawar and enlisted his young Uzbek activists in its madrasahs. ..

global cooperation needed to fight terror

number of religious scholars in number of the country's provinces, including Kabul expressed their support of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and condemned Daesh and Taliban as deviants from Islam and calling upon Muslims to stand against them. Meanwhile Makkah Imam had..

the jewish history of afghanistan

Afghanistan is the last place you'd expect to find any trace of Jewish past, given Islamization of most of the country over the past two decades by Taliban. The recorded story of Afghan Jews starts in C.E., two centuries after the country was converted to Islam. ..

muslims killing muslims

Bhutto said Friday that she believed Taliban and Al-Qaida initiated the attack. The assassination attempt highlights the fractured state of Islam, religion defined these days by its degrees of faith. ..

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