Lahore attack: a political context
From the Blog beenasarwar *I wrote this for the Huffington Post after the attack on the Lahore park on Easter Sunday.* How Pakistan’s Religious Right Uses ‘Blasphemy’ to (try and) Usurp Political Power *Aamir Qureshi/Getty Images* The horrific suicide bombing at a park in Lahore on Sunday that killed over 70 people, mostly women and children, is one of many assaults by religious hardliners in Pakistan who are striving to remain politically relevant and in the media limelight. Attacks on soft targets like parks on holidays or schools (the Dec. 16, 2014 attack at the school in Peshawar that killed over 140 children, for example) are the most desperate, sensationalist optics of a multi-pronged strategy with a savvy media component. The aim: to grab political power and impose a harsh version of Islam on pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Conviction
From the Blog ashrafiya Hakim al Umma Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (Allah have mercy on him) said, ‘Whatever intervention Allah does in a Muslim individual (or his affairs) irrespective of it being the most unpleasant it is obligatory to have the conviction that this is the best for me’ *Ahsan us Sawanih*, page 35 pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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