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Karachi
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Aziz Poonawalla
Traveling to Karachi from the US is not easy. But traveling back is even worse. I returned a couple weeks ago from my trip and have been coping with the usual jet lag and GI/respiratory baggage that comes from an extended trip to the far side. The pace of events during Ashara itself was too…
Bomb blast in Karachi targets Dawoodi Bohra community
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Aziz Poonawalla
This happens almost every day in Pakistan – fanatic hirabists commit arrogant blasphemy and murder fellow Muslims in cold blood. This time, the target was my own community, the Dawoodi Bohras. KARACHI: Two people were killed in an explosion that took place after Friday prayers outside the Saleh Mosque for Bohra community worshippers. Deputy Inspector…
Eid intolerance
By
Aziz Poonawalla
While the decision of when to observe Eid can be messy at times, that messiness is at least the process of honest decisions and judgement by Muslims free to make their own religious choices. However, not all Muslims have that freedom. For example, Sunnis in Iran: Sunni Muslims in Tehran have been banned from congregating…
Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan and the rape/adultery fallacy
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Aziz Poonawalla
I found this argument by Munawar Hassan of the political party Jamaat-i-Islami to be unbelievably disgusting and fundamentally blasphemous in the way he invokes the Qur’an to justify blatant misogyny: Here is the most disturbing part of Hassan’s comments: Anchor: The fundamental purpose of the women protection act was (is) to provide women with the…
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