Introducing The Book 'Essential Message of Islam' by Muhammad Yunus & Ashfaque Ullah Syed

Introducing The Book 'Essential Message of Islam' by Muhammad Yunus & Ashfaque Ullah Syed Editor's Note: New Age Islam is happy to be able to present for the first time on internet this ground-breaking work by Quran exegetes Muhammad Yunus & Ashfaque Ullah Syed for the benefit of its readers. The authors hardly need any introduction on this website. Muhammad Yunus Saheb has been contributing for long and we have posted Ashfaque Ullah Syed Saheb's individual contribution too in the form of his televised lecture. Presented below is the introduction of the book written by the renowned academic and author Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl: Approved by al-Azhar al-Sharif, Cairo, Egypt Endorsed and Introduced by Khaled...

Thirty Years of Takfiri Terror On The Back Of Poisonous Fatwas From Deobandi Ulema Of Jamia Islamia Binori Town, Karachi And Dar-Ul-Uloom Haqqaniah, Akora Khattak

Thirty Years of Takfiri Terror On The Back Of Poisonous Fatwas From Deobandi Ulema Of Jamia Islamia Binori Town, Karachi And Dar-Ul-Uloom Haqqaniah, Akora Khattak By Dr Mohammad Taqi February 26, 2015 The Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) was founded in September 1985 in Jhang and armed with such poisonous Fatwas and deadly weaponry it has unleashed a reign of Takfiri terror on the Shias for the past 30 years The predominant narrative in Pakistan now seems to be that India and its intelligence agency RAW is responsible for all acts of terrorism, including the vicious attack on the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The federal defence minister, Punjab’s home minister and the Inter-Services...

The Frailty of Judges: Many killers in Pakistan cannot be hanged, but the most 'un-hangable' is Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer

The Frailty of Judges: Many killers in Pakistan cannot be hanged, but the most 'un-hangable' is Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer By Khaled Ahmed February 28, 2015 There are many killers Pakistan cannot hang, but the one most “un-hangable” out of them is Mumtaz Qadri, ex-policeman, security guard of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, whom he shot full of bullets, thinking the governor had blasphemed. Qadri was sentenced to death by a judge of the anti-terrorism special court who had to flee abroad because the judicial process is now thoroughly subordinated to religious extremism. It is also unreliable because the judges may think like the killers when it comes to blasphemy. When Qadri appeared in the...

How Madrasas Can Reform their Curriculums to Promote a Broad Worldview in Place of Extremist Thoughts?

How Madrasas Can Reform their Curriculums to Promote a Broad Worldview in Place of Extremist Thoughts? By Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi, New Age Islam February 28, 2015 Recent urging of Shaikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayib for reform in the Islamic education to contain the spread of religious extremism came as a welcome sign of introspection. Significantly this admission of a link between Islamic education and terrorism and the suggestion for change in madrasas curriculum was made in Saudi Arabia, a country that is the source of madrasa text books inspired by its Wahhabi-Salafi ideology that indoctrinate pupils into hate, intolerance and xenophobia. More significantly, it was made at a counter-terrorism conference at Mecca. This should...