Islamic World News: Saudi School Textbooks Incite Hatred and Violence 2. Religion of Peace? (Book) by Gregory M. Dav

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Islamic World News

Indian Muslim Women turn tide, win more scholarships

Swat:Taliban summon 50  officials to Sharia courts

Cairo: Al-Azhar Hails First Female Interpretation of the Quran

Is Political Islam a Threat to the West? By Wajahat Ali,

Saudi School Textbooks Incite Hatred and Violence

Can Islam Save The Economy? By Nathan Schneider

Religion of Peace? (Book) by Gregory M. Davis

Islamic body opts not to ban smoking in Indonesia

Mogadishu: Women's basketball event excites war-weary Somalis

Some Arab 'friends' need a lesson in democracy by Irfan Yusuf

BAGHDAD: Iraqi prime minister lectures against sectarianism

Saudi Arabia- Increasing trends toward Islamic investment

Compiled by Syed Asadullah

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Radical Islamism & Jihad
Understanding Pakistan's response to Mumbai

President Zardari's government, many had hoped, would dismantle the Pakistan that Zia-ul-Haq built — a Pakistan based on the dual primacy of the military and the mullah, resting on the pillars of religious chauvinism and hatred for India. If President Zardari's handling of the fallout of the Mumbai carnage is any indication, the forces he represents have neither the will nor the resources to reverse history. --- Praveen Swami

Pakistani neocons and UN sanctions

At a meeting with a group of journalists among whom I was present, my dear and much lamented friend Tahir Mirza, then the Dawn correspondent, asked Musharraf why he was not acting against Lashkar-e Tayba and Jaish-e Muhammad. Musharraf went red in the face and shot back, "They are not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside." -- Khalid Hasan

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War on Terror
OBAMA'S WAR ON TERROR IN PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN

The War Against the Taliban and the War Against Al Qaeda

This is not an argument that al Qaeda is no longer a threat, although the threat appears diminished. Nor is it an argument that dealing with terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not a priority. Instead, it is an argument that the defeat of the Taliban under rationally anticipated circumstances is unlikely and that a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan will be much more difficult and unlikely than the settlement was in Iraq — but that even so, a robust effort against Islamist terror groups must continue regardless of the outcome of the war with the Taliban. -- George Friedman

Promise and pitfalls of Obama's South Asia policy

If there was any doubt about the military's indulgence towards these elements, the recent interview of the ISI chief, Major General Shujaa Pasha, to Der Spiegel ought to settle the matter. "It is worth listening closely when the general explains why he too is unwilling to apprehend the Taliban leadership, even though many claim that Taliban leader Mullah Omar, for example, is in Quetta, a city where Pasha lived until a few years ago," the German magazine wrote. "Shouldn't they be allowed to think and say what they please? They believe that jihad is their obligation. Isn't that freedom of opinion? he asks, defending extremist rabble-rousers, who are sending more and more Koran school students to Afghanistan to fight in the war there." -- Siddharth Varadarajan
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