Religious Extremism

[Written by a jogger who turned up the wrong street]
My first feeling was embarrassed sheepishness. It’s not like I was unaware of the neighborhood’s demographic, and in her eyes I was practically naked. It was disrespectful, probably, for me to prance, flushed and happy, along this avenue of Hasidim with my navel showing. I wouldn’t have dreamed of baring even my ankles in parts of Jerusalem.

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?