http://slow.writerscafe.org/newageislam The original writings of author New Age Islam en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775274399 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 This columnist got an opportunity to talk to him at length in New York recently. He is based there since 1998. Though he has just suffered bereavement, with another of his nephews having been martyred http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2152481/ Indian Muslim women deserve congratulations for coming out with their own marriage code. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is using its clout in the media to denigrate this move. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2152476/ This is a laudable initiative and needs to be welcomed. But it calls for some serious reflection too. Techniques for making propaganda videos can be taught to the ulema. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2152472/ The sleepy town of Deoband, 140 kms east of Delhi, famous around the world primarily for hosting this premier Muslim religious educational institution, the Darul Uloom, came alive on February 25, with http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2151119/ Would it be a good idea then for Indian Muslims, for instance, to develop a sense of pride in Indian nationalism? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2151117/ It is only natural for Muslims in India to be a little anxious as the country awaits the Supreme Court verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ram Janam Bhoomi dispute at Ayodhya to be delivered in a few days. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2150008/ It would be best if OIC were to leave Indian Muslims including Kashmiris to live in peace and not create problems for them by focussing attention on them as separatists or supporters of secessionism. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144411/ The sleepy town of Deoband, 140 kms east of Delhi, famous around the world primarily for hosting this premier Muslim religious educational institution, the Darul Uloom, came alive on February 25, with http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144410/ Ancient India was a land of several prophets through whom God sent revelations of remarkable beauty and grandeur http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144409/ For the last 3 / 4 centuries, however, Muslims have fallen on bad days and, as a result, are under attack of various kinds all over the world, both within their countries and from outside their countr http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144408/ The Amarnath dispute and the alleged 'economic blockade' have sparked an unprecedented pro-Pakistani sentiment in the Valley, shown by the open display of the crescent flag and the massive anti-India http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144406/ The defining features of Kashmiri Sufism are a belief in both the transcendence and immanence of God, respect for other religions http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144405/ The Pakistani government has deprived him of his passport, freedom of Movement and right to adopt nationality of his choice. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144404/ While the world suffers from Jihadist violence, Muslims in particular suffer the most causalities in sectarian wars incited by the Islamist Jihadist ideology. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2144300/ Our goal is azadi baraa-e-Islam (freedom for Islam), intoned Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the octogenarian leader of Kashmir’s separatist movement http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2142016/ This is completely unacceptable and doesn't correspond either with facts of history or with Islamic edicts. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2142014/ In the ensuing violence that involved the entire village his 7-year-old daughter lost her life while four people got injured. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2141999/ Also, they must clarify that the Muslim perception and belief that they alone are worthy of going to Heaven is total nonsense, according to Muslim precepts. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2141998/ The disconnect is almost total. The police and the national media say one thing. The Muslim Press something entirely different. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2141997/ NewAgeIslam.com has been talking of a dangerous disconnect between the Muslim press and National media. We present below the translation of an article by an enlightened, secular Muslim http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2141989/ It seems in order to explain at the outset that having come from a Sunni background I may have inherited and imbibed some Sunni misgivings and prejudices but on a conscious level I try to remind mysel http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2132178/ Do those Muslims fighting for their cause, no matter how legitimate even remember and remind the common Muslims of the larger perspective. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2132174/ Shahin Saheb has every right to pursue his one-sided effort to denigrate and demonise Muslims and exhort them to accept what is on the table. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2132165/ They demolished a mosque in the full glare of the television camera. There is no Muslim who won’t be seething with anger at the memory of that sight on the television. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2132160/ Watching top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders a couple of days ago sitting next to top communist, socialist, http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2132156/ A virtually new religion has come into existence that I have been calling Jihadism, but it claims to be Islam and derives sustenance from these verses. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2124066/ The move comes in the wake of arrests of several Muslim youths in connection with a spate of recent blasts. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2124065/ They did that in the aftermath of Bombay riots in 1993. Dawood Ibrahim-organised serial blasts took 250 civilian lives and caused 700 injuries alongside massive economic disruption but India refused http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2124063/ The Prophet [peace be upon him] had not only forgiven her but had made it a point to forbid the practice in every Muslim gathering thereafter for fear that the Muslims, too, might do something similar http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2124062/ it has to be rethought and reinterpreted in the light of the orthodox Islamic principles of Ijtihad, the gates of which were opened for us by Allah and the Prophet http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2124060/ I hope they would go further, rethink the entire Muslim agenda and decide to follow the Islamic principles of generosity in settling the Babri Masjid dispute once and for all. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2121151/ These ahadees contravene the progressive, even feminist teachings of the Koran specifically to degrade and humiliate women and uphold the pre-Islamic practices. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2121150/ This is the reason why only a few Kashmiri youth have taken to the path of terror, which you call Jihad. Most of the terrorism seen in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been part of a proxy war waged http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2121149/ खुदा की तरफ से भेजे गए सारे दीन और धर्मों को समाप्त कर दिया जाएl इसी �™िए अब इन कश्मीरी राजनीतिज्ञों http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2121147/ The Vienna Declaration recognizes that “every individual has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, expression and religion.” http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2121146/ The people of Kashmir have suffered immensely since the Pakistani invasion of their land soon after Partition in 1947. India took the matter to the UN Security Council to persuade Pakistan to stop. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2119186/ We are holding this discussion at a time when cultural and ethnic minorities in Pakistan are in great distress, with suicide bombers routinely killing sectarian minorities like the Shia. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2119185/ Petrodollar Islam has injected the poison of Islam-supremacism in Muslim societies worldwide. Even exemplary moderate countries like Indonesia, Malaysia are now infected with this virus. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2119183/ O God, You are the original source of Peace; from You is all Peace, and to You returns all Peace. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2119179/ newageislam.com is a steadfast purpose: to reclaim Islam from the clutches of jihadists and petrodollar-funded Salafist-Wahhabis. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2119176/ But first, let me focus a little on the symbiosis of our religious traditions that has sustained us, and kept us together, for centuries and, I am sure, will continue to sustain us in future. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2118384/ I would like to confine myself to reflecting on the problems of religious minorities, particularly Muslim minorities who are facing xenophobia and related forms of intolerance today in an atmosphere o http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2118383/ They can, for example, exert their right to forgive and thus set both parties to the dispute free of the karmic debt. This is provocative stuff. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2118145/ Quoting a press release of Majlis-e-Ahrar, Punjab, the Daily Sahafat, Delhi (18 May 2010) reports that Muslims are proud of the fact that, with the intervention of Majlis-e-Ahrar. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2118051/ In Pakistan, for instance, a near civil war in raging among religious, sectarian, ethnic and linguistic groups. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2117334/ They claim to be establishing what they call “pure Islam”, by eliminating mainstream interpretations of Islam and minority sects whom they do not recognise as Muslim. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2117330/ As perceptive and insightful an observer as Mr. Ziauddin Sardar proclaimed “the beginning of the end of the war of terror” when a hundred thousand Deobandi ulema endorsed a fatwa issued by the hundred http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2117328/ The people of Kashmir have suffered immensely since the Pakistani invasion of their land soon after Partition in 1947. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2116597/ We are holding this discussion at a time when cultural and ethnic minorities in Pakistan are in great distress. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2116596/ Wahhabism has been spread aggressively since the 1744 pact between Muhammad bin Saud and Muhammad ibn ʿAbdul Wahhab which marked the emergence of the first Saudi state. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/newageislam/2116594/