Story of a Deer and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
Posted in Op-Eds on Jun 11th, 2010
This article was published in one of America’s largest circulating Urdu language newspaper. Please click below to read a pdf of the original article.
Namoos-e-Risaalat aur Qissa Harni
Is this Jinnah’s Pakistan? (The Express Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Jun 4th, 2010
BEL AIR: As an Ahmadi of Pakistani descent, I commend Raza Rumi and thank your newspaper for publishing his timely article “Is this Jinnah’s Pakistan?” (May 30). Jinnah envisioned a Pakistan where all minorities would have equal rights. He said in his 1948 radio address to the US: “Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state, to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims – Hindus, Christians, and Parsis – but they are all Pakistanis.” And he lived up to his promise by taking minority members in his first cabinet.
The Pakistani government has not done enough...
Voices that make America great (Chicago Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Jun 2nd, 2010
I write this as a Muslim, as an American, as a husband and, most important, as a father of an 11-year-old daughter who is anxious to wear a head cover when she grows up to be a NASA scientist.
Our recent vacation in France reminded us one more time of the freedoms we enjoy as Muslims and as Americans.
But voices like Tribune columnist Steve Chapman’s make America a great nation (“The folly of banning burqas; Free society requires mutual tolerance,” Commentary, May 23).
His commentary is dead-on.
His arguments are cogent.
His thoughtfulness exudes mutual respect and a deep...
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