We all know Shahrukh Khan and his religion which is Islam and his open-ness to the religions around him. Unfortunately he has been back fired for every comment he uttered for Islam.

The term “winning hearts and minds” is a simplistic and dangerous cliché reflecting a certain naiveté in American thinking that everyone yearns to be like us. In the struggle against those who would pervert Islam and use that despicable version of a great religion as a tool for terror, winning hearts and minds should not be our center of gravity.

By Ghalib Sultan

As feared, the strong support for Operation Rah-e-Rast (against
Fake-Talibans and extremist miscreants who had been unabashedly
maligning the image of Islam and that of Pakistan) is threatening to
crumble courtesy Mian Nawaz Sharif's recently articulated 'worries'
over the offensive in South Waziristan.

By Jennifer Andrew 

In a recent report the US Department of Homeland Security warned that
economic and political factors could lead to a resurfacing of right wing
extremism and radicalization---. Over the last ten days there have been three
cases of extremist violence---the killing of a soldier outside a recruiting

The drama of the Swat Valley — its cynical abandonment to the mercy of the Taliban, the terror unleashed on it by the militants, then the recognition that the concession to the forces of darkness had not worked — is of a piece with the larger history of religious extremism in the world of Islam. 

About Iran, Henry Kissinger once asked whether the Islamic Republic was a
country or a cause. About Pakistan, the question is whether it's a country or
merely a space.

MQM leader Altaf Hussain is quite vocal against Taliban now days. His main goal is to defeat somehow Taliban, who already had taken ground in Swat or Malakand division, through his speeches & press statements. His guns, sometimes while delivering fires against Taliban, start aiming few agreed principles of Islam also. God knows, purposely or unknowingly!

After Shahbaz Sharif dismissal and probably due to heavy reshuffle of bureaucracy in Lahore , terrorist attack has happened upon Sri Lankan players. Soon after that New Zealand has cancelled their visit and optimism is dying about Bangladesh ’s tour.

This is JI understanding toward Islam.

After 8 years of guerrilla warfare with Taliban , US authorities are partially confirming that they had failed to secure Afghanistan from the Taliban and turning themselves to table-talks, as proposed by US-staunch ally, Hamid Karzai.

Undoubtedly current age is age of internet and millions of people use internet all around the world. Previously internet was used for only dissemination of information but now it is also being used as propaganda tool.

Every fifth human being is a Muslim.

For every single Hindu there are two Muslims

For every Buddhist there are two Muslims

For every Jew there are 107 Muslims

Lessons of history have been quickly forgotten. Indians have become twisted “politically correct” escapists who prefer to turn a blind eye to reality. Now it is not about just Kashmir any more, it is all of India that Pakistan wants.

I had the chance of watching a documentary on BBC today. It was about young muslim friends involved in a conspiracy for bombing tourist airplanes. I was not alarmed once again at the western media's attempt to destroy what is left of muslims' image as peace loving community. It is a real shame to come across such things being interpreted as islamic.

There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, almost 2/3 of them offer prayers (during ramadan it's almost 3/4), Saudia is inundated with pilgrims during Hajj, Eid shoppers crowd the markets, every mosque is overflowing during Friday prayers; yet we're divided, dismantled, disintegrated, and most shamefully, dominated!

The Pakistani society is a unique one. We have deep-running roots for the love of religion. Almost every mosque is over-crowded in Friday prayers despite the fact that there is at least a mosque every kilometer in major cities.

Could anyone please explain, why the Holy Quran might have remained silent on religions apart from Judaism, Christianity and the Magian religion? Does that mean that Islam de-recognizes all these religions and considers their followers unbelievers, just as orthodox Judaism casts doubts upon  Islam?

A recent meeting with a revert to Islam, left me thinking about all those different schools of thought that we have in Islam. This fellow has embraced Islam and now struggling to find which school of thought to follow because this is what the "born muslims" are asking him to do.