After eight days of bombing blitz killing more than 400 hundreds Palestinins and wreaking widespread destruction, Israel’s ground forces has invaded Gaza for ground assault. Accroding to reports has fought ‘fierce battles’ with hammas fighters.  Israel is using its right of self defence which Palestinians donot have.
The way world leaders and United Nation has reacted so far on this Israeli massacre in Gaza, it speaks of double standards on terrorism. No matter how condemnable firing of rockets by Hamas in Israel is, Israel’s reaction cannot be justified at all. However, …

Sheikh Khaled Abdelhamid El Azhary
Undoubtedly Youth is the most impressionable age. It means not only a soul saved, but a life saved too. It means that one’s best days can be dedicated to the glory of God. Allah will ask us about our age and about our youth — Allah promised the paradise for youth who devout their times and health for the sake of Allah
The message we are delivering here targets the role of the family (i.e. the parents) not the society. As I mentioned at the first khutba …

Year 2009 has arrived with huge fireworks as up to 1.5 million Australians and tourists converged on the site surrounding Sydney’s world-famous Opera House for the city’s biggest ever  and multimillion dollar fireworks display.
Egypt, Jordan, Dubai and Syria all cancelled festivities including concerts by renowned Arab singers as a sign of solidarity with the brotherly Palestinian people.

A mother is mourning her child who died during Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Near 400 people have died in three days Isarel’s offenssive on Gaza. ‘World leaders’ call it right of self defence, but I call it criminal ignorance on their part.

Pakistan has launched offensive against millitants in Khyber pass which is alos used to ferry supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan. In recent months, the road through the Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan has come under increased attacks by militants trying to squeeze western forces fighting a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
About 75 per cent of the fuel, food and other logistical goods for Western soldiers in landlocked Afghanistan are delivered through the winding, mountainous route in Pakistan via the port of Karachi.
The road has been temporarily closed to traffic at …

The Monster in the Mirror
Arundhati Roy
How should those of us whose hearts have been sickened by the knowledge of all of this view the Mumbai attacks, and what are we to do about them?
There are those who point out that U.S. strategy has been successful inasmuch as the United States has not suffered a major attack on its home ground since 9/11. However, some would say that what America is suffering now is far worse.
If the idea behind the 9/11 terror attacks was to goad America into showing its true …

A Shadowy History of Suspicious Terror Attacks
Arundhati Roy
Though one chapter of horror in Mumbai has ended, another might have just begun. Day after day, a powerful, vociferous section of the Indian elite, goaded by marauding TV anchors who make Fox News look almost radical and left-wing, have taken to mindlessly attacking politicians, all politicians, glorifying the police and the army, and virtually asking for a police state.
It isn’t surprising that those who have grown plump on the pickings of democracy (such as it is) should now be calling for a …

Releasing Frankensteins
Arundhati Roy
Thanks largely to the part it was forced to play as America’s ally, first in its war in support of the Afghan Islamists and then in its war against them, Pakistan, whose territory is reeling under these contradictions, is careening toward civil war.
As recruiting agents for America’s jihad against the Soviet Union, it was the job of the Pakistani Army and the ISI to nurture and channel funds to Islamic fundamentalist organizations. Having wired up these Frankensteins and released them into the world, the U.S. expected it could …

It is the third part of article by Arundhati Roy titled Monster in the Mirror. The second part is entitled Terrorism and the Need for Context.
 A Close Embrace of Hatred, Terrifying Familiarity, and Love
by Arundhati Roy
On this nuclear subcontinent, that context is Partition. The Radcliffe Line, which separated India and Pakistan and tore through states, districts, villages, fields, communities, water systems, homes, and families, was drawn virtually overnight. It was Britain’s final, parting kick to us.
Partition triggered the massacre of more than a million people and the largest migration …

It is the Part 2 of the article “Monster in the Mirror” written by Arundahti Roy.
Terrorism and the Need for Context
Arundhati Roy
There is a fierce, unforgiving fault line that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. On one side (let’s call it Side A) are those who see terrorism, especially “Islamist” terrorism, as a hateful, insane scourge that spins on its own axis, in its own orbit, and has nothing to do with the world around it, nothing to do with history, geography, or economics. Therefore, Side A says, to …