Islam,Terrorism and Jihad *Pakistan must defeat terrorism, before being consumed by it: Manmohan<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1581> *
I believe that it is as much in Pakistan’s vital interest as it is in ours to make peace. Pakistan must defeat terrorism, before being consumed by it. I believe the current leadership there understands the need for action. I was told by the parliamentarians who accompanied Prime Minister Gilani that there is now a political consensus in Pakistan against terrorism. That should strengthen the hands of its leaders in taking the hard decisions that will be needed to destroy terrorism and its sponsors in their country. Our objective, as I said at the outset, must be a permanent peace with Pakistan, where we are bound together by a shared future and a common prosperity. I believe that there is a large constituency for peace in both countries. The majority of people in both countries want an honourable settlement of the problems between us that have festered far too long and want to set aside the animosities of the past. We know this, but in the past there have been hurdles in a consistent pursuit of this path. As a result, the enemies of peace have flourished. They want to make our alienation permanent, the distance between our two countries an unbridgeable divide. In the interests of our people, and in the interest of peace and prosperity of South Asia, we must not let this happen. That is why I hope and pray that the leadership in Pakistan will have the strength and the courage to defeat those who want to destroy, not just peace between India and Pakistan, but the future of South Asia. As I have said before, if they show that strength and that courage, we will meet them more than half way. – *Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh* addressing Parliament on July 29, 2009. (Full Text below) More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1581> Debate *Does Islam Prohibit Muslims From Befriending People of Other Faiths?<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1580> * Some people who claim that Muslims must never befriend non-Muslims and that such friendship is banned in Islam are completely wrong and absurd. These people have not understood the relevant Quranic verses in their totality. It is obvious that this argument is absurd and erroneous. It represents a gross misinterpretation or misunderstanding of Islamic teachings. There is no basis for such a claim in the Quran. Rather, there are enough references in the Quran to challenge and rebut this argument. It is necessary to urgently critique and to do away with these wrong interpretations, which pose a major barrier in promoting better relations between Muslims and other peoples. -- *Maulvi Yahya Nomani* (Translated from Urdu by *Yoginder Sikand)* 10 Comments More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1580> War on Terror *A Century of Frenzy over NWFP: Empire's Paranoia About the Pashtuns<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1579> * Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the record books. And it hasn't ended yet. Not by a long shot. Not with the headlines in the U.S. papers about the depredations of the Pakistani Taliban, not with the CIA's drone aircraft striking gatherings in Waziristan and elsewhere near the Afghan border. This spring, for instance, one counter-terrorism analyst stridently (and wholly implausibly) warned<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031903038.html> that "in one to six months" we could "see the collapse of the Pakistani state," at the hands of the bloodthirsty Taliban, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called<http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1895167,00.html> the situation in Pakistan a "mortal danger" to global security. What most observers don't realize is that the doomsday rhetoric<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175069> about this region at the top of the world is hardly new. It's at least 100 years old. During their campaigns in the northwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British officers, journalists and editorialists sounded much like American strategists, analysts, and pundits of the present moment. They construed the Pashtun tribesmen who inhabited Waziristan as the new Normans, a dire menace to London that threatened to overturn the British Empire. -- *Juan Cole**, *author of most recent book* **Engaging the Muslim World* <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230607543/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20>*. *** More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1579> Urdu Section *Islam and Sectarianism: The reality of Deobandi-Bareilvi clash<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1578> * *By Maulana Nademul Wajidi* ** ** 1 Comments More.<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1578> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. 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