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ISLAM AND DIVERSITY (by A.Z)

In the face of negative stereotyping against Islam and Muslims in the post 9/11 world, it is very important for Muslims to return to the pluralistic vision of the Quran and establish cooperative dialogue and relations with other religions in their communities.

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RELIGIOSITY IN PAKISTAN – (A Lament !) by A.Z

(For the purpose of this article ‘Religiosity’ means ‘exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal’)

I am often astounded by the amount of religiosity on display in the present day Pakistan.

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LIVING IN 'NOW' (by A.Z)

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony

and the deep power of joy

we see into the heart of things.

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MUSLIMS AND THE WEST (by A.Z)

The West and Islam have had an uneasy relationship for a very long time, which dates from even before the Muslims appeared on the world stage as the conquerors and led to the horrifying Crusades. Both developed a rhetoric against each other in order to define oneself by reviling the other.

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POLITICAL ISLAM: AN IDEOLOGY MIRED IN THE PAST (by A.Z)

While political movements that function in the name of religion have been a world phenomenon for centuries, in the modern age it is only Islam that, in the recent times, has become associated with radical fundamentalism in an essentialist manner.

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Pakistan: Massive destruction – little sympathy (by Rizwan Haider)

The present floods in Pakistan are turning into a tragedy of a massive scale. We are not yet fully aware of the full extent of damage and disaster.

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SHARIA LAW: A NEED TO REASSESS (by A.Z)

Most Muslims regard Sharia as a perfect and divinely ordained religious-ethical-legal system. In their view Sharia relates a Muslim individual and society to God’s will and purpose by pronouncing wide-ranging edicts in both private and public spheres of human life in the matters that are between a person and God as well as those that are between a person and fellow humans.

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