Surprisingly (as is not usually the norm with these type of targeted attacks) the majority of immediate public reaction exchanged over social media and online forums was not of reactionary animosity directed towards Buddhism and the Buddhist community as an entity, but rather a collectively-acknowledged finger of disapproval pointing in the direction of another sort of minority – the minority of radical trouble-makers representing the very anathema of what Buddhism entails.
You have to come back, but not at times like this. Come back when we have been liberated and established as the Bangsamoro state ~ Filipino Muslims.
The devastation brought by the recent rains in the province of Sindh in Pakistan has brought major misery to its people already struggling to recover from last years mega flood
A bomb blast in Karachi Pakistan early this morning targeted the house of Senior Superintendent of Police Chaudhry Aslam who is a major figure in the fight against Al-Qaeda, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and various other elements in Pakistan. The house is situated right next to several major schools in Karachi and the dead included a student and a teacher along with several policemen.
There are a great many similarities between the genocide perpetrated by the forces of Mussolini in his vain attempt to re-enact the Roman conquest of Libya and the actions of Qaddafi today.
Such is the hypocrisy of American pressure on Pakistan to release the now notorious, Raymond Allen Davis, the businessman-turned-consultant-turned-consular staffer-turned-embassy staffer. The cost of this conduct is so predictable- intense anti-American sentiment and the threats of terrorism it produces.
Khutbah about Egypt delivered on Feb 11, 2011 [audio http://abdulnasirj.com/audio/egyptkhutbah.mp3]
The tears gushed for the people who had died. For their families who were suffering without them. But most of all, for the Muslims and for what was to come. I knew that it was going to be an uphill struggle for us all from now on.
This idea that Obama was chosen for his efforts as President seems ridiculous due to the brevity (nine months) of his administration. So does the more accurate and definitely more outlandish nomination which happened in, count them folks, eleven days!
The fourteenth of August was technically the Pakistani day of independence, but Pakistanis found little to celebrate this year; many citizens expressed their fear that their independence is gradually but surely being eroded away by American interventionism in the region.