Lal Masjid

Religious Extremism: The Battle for Pakistan's Soul?

While religious extremism is perhaps the scrouge of our generation, and granted that religious extremism has been a part and parcel of Pakistan over the last several decades, the Lal Masjid episode has revealed a nation on a collision course with itself.

What are we doing to help fight the Battle for Pakistan's Soul? What can we do? Are we as big a hypocrite as the West when we don't try to understand what this rage is all about?

The Robert Jensen article keeps coming up...where, as I saying earlier, we have Farid Esack, Junaid Ahmad, and Robert Jensen telling us that Pakistani liberals, it seems, "[i]nstead of talking about these fundamental questions of justice" "might ignore ...