The Legacy on December 27, 2019It is with a heavy heart that I pen these meager words of remembrance and tribute for a leader, woman and inspiration who was taken away by the attack of an assassin from all those who loved, respected, and followed her.It has been 12 years since we lost her, but her memory is still vivid […]
Does Panchsila work in today’s Indonesia? on December 31, 2018Indonesian English language media and Human Rights Watch have expressed alarm as Indonesia Launched a so-called ‘Snitch’ App targeting religious minorities. It is feared within human rights circles that the app has the will encourage users to report people suspected of heresy. Last month, Bakor Pakem, a body charged with religious oversight in the Indonesia […]
Silent majoritys complicity in war on minorities on April 16, 2017The Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Tanta are still reeling from shock after Islamic State (ISIS) suicide bombers killed 45 people attending Palm Sunday services last week. Last Thursday, a frenzied mob lynched a student accused of blasphemy at a university in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Mardan. Thousands of miles apart, one was an act […]
A leader who saw the jihadis coming on December 26, 2014Two years after being elected the world’s first Muslim woman prime minister, Benazir Bhutto received intelligence that a man called Osama bin Laden had given orders to kill her. The year was 1990. Al Qaeda had not yet officially been formed but the organisers of global jihad had already determined that Afghanistan and Pakistan, where […]
The surrender to religious cleansing on October 13, 2013The Taliban attack on the Peshawar church that killed scores of people was an opportunity for Pakistan’s leaders to rally the nation against Islamist extremism but they squandered it. Pakistan’s leaders have squandered another opportunity to rally the nation against religious extremism. The terrorist attack on one of the oldest churches in the country, Peshawar’s […]