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Pakistan: Neither unwilling nor unable in Tirah Valley
Tirah is a belt of valleys providing a convenient passage into Afghanistan, with a population of 1.5 million. Fertile for what Afghanis do best: opium, poppy fields have flourished in the region and the government has been for years trying to curb the epidemic. But…
Pakistani Democracy and Shariah
Pakistani Democracy and Shariah by Ahmad Imran BBC reported majority of Pakistanis do not rate democracy favorably, and rank it lower than military rule and Sharia. What BBC did not say on their website was that it had a knack for the obvious, meaning…
4th Case of Yellow Tribunism, “PML-N, ASWJ Reach Consensus” story deleted
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Qaradawi Redefining Jihad
Ahmad Imran
18th May,2013
Qaradawi the ephemeral Khawariji modernist (jadidi) religio-Islamist has a sustained pattern of twisting mutually agreed upon principles of Classical Islam. Jihad as a concept has also been affected accordingly with Broader Middle East taking the brunt of this innovation (bi'dah). There exists the whole Qatari connection and the usual Ibn Taymiyya as the chief ideologue. [1]
Khwariji Typology
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Ahmad Imran
29th April, 2013
The political economic and theological context and origins of the Khwarijis were described in the work “ Who are the Khwariji?”, therefore this article will discuss types and classifications within the broader Neo-Khwariji movements. Scholars have known of the evolutionary processes that afflict the movement, in that the earlier chief ideologues do differ from the contemporary ones in many aspects and the movement is always in flux and like many political movements the leaders who display one set of political rhetoric yet another set of policies when they come to office. The central component of Khwarijis (Islamist) is to re-define Islam and thus a popular nomenclature would also be “ Revisionist Islam”.
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