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How a storm can break the ice (Washington Post)
Posted in Letters to Editors on Feb 1st, 2011
Original Article.
Despite all the traffic, power outages and inconveniences, last Wednesday’s snow broke the ice between many people.
On Thursday morning, I was able to make rounds in the hospital where I’m a doctor, thanks to the help of three children, two shovels and one neighbor with a snow blower. My co-workers shared similar stories of neighbors pitching in, volunteers driving medical personnel to hospitals and heightened civility on the road.
On Thursday night, after we delivered a hand-made thank you card to our lovely neighbor, we lost power. Our family paused to feel the pain of...
Where Are The Sane Muslims? (Express Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors on Jan 30th, 2011
Saleha Riaz asks a profound question in her gut wrenching piece (Where are the sane Muslims?): “Where are those who know that belief in one God is all it takes to be a Muslim, that everything else is secondary?”
This reminds me of the famous Munir Commission Report of 1953 in which no two clergy could agree on the definition of “who is a Muslim”. Justice Munir and Justice Kiyani valiantly protected Pakistan’s body from this cancer like two skilled doctors. Two decades later, Bhutto succumbed to political pressure and created the first mutated cell of this cancer by declaring Ahmadis as...
Repeal the blasphemy law (The Express Tribune)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Nov 20th, 2010
BALTIMORE, MD, US: I write with reference to Nasim Zehra’s brave call for repealing the blasphemy law in her article of November 17 titled “Time to repeal the blasphemy law”. General Ziaul Haq enacted this law to legitimise his usurping of power. The result has been that in the decades following its imposition, dozens of members from minority communities have been killed because of the misuse of the blasphemy law. Repealing this statute would earn Pakistan international respect.
Faheem Younus
Clinical associate professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Published in The Express Tribune,...
Where are the laws against falsehood? (The Economist)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Nov 11th, 2010
SIR – As a “Muslimerican” I was embarrassed to note a fact in the Transparency International report. The top five most populated Muslim countries, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt, fell under the miserable range of 2.0 to 3.9 and only four out of the 48 Muslim-majority countries made it above 50.
As the Muslim world implements strict laws to ban alcoholism, adultery, or even free speech, one wonders: where are the laws against corruption? The leaders of these countries could learn a thing or two about curtailing corruption from Denmark, New Zealand, or Singapore, which all...
Muslims for Peace (NY Daily News)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Nov 3rd, 2010
Baltimore: As a “Muslimerican,” I find the news of yet another terrorist attack aimed at America repulsive. What is refreshing, though, is the awareness that, as the radicals were planning to attack us, we were mobilizing our youth in the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA to take the banner of “Muslims for Peace” to Jon Stewart‘s Rally to Restore...
Moderate Islam under threat (The Independent)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Oct 26th, 2010
Being an Ahmadi Muslim from America, I was deeply disturbed to read your report “Hardliners call for deaths of Surrey Muslims” (21 October). This is too much change since my last visit to London in April.
Over the past six months, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has launched a bus campaign with our slogan “Love for all, hatred for none” in London. The same bus campaign then took to the streets of New York, Wisconsin and Houston in the USA. Our youth went door-knocking with “Muslims for Peace” leaflets. In the USA, we have reached out to over 25 million people with...
‘The great debate over Islam’ (Dawn.com)
Posted in Letters to Editors, Print on Oct 15th, 2010
THIS is apropos of Irfan Husain’s article ‘The great debate over Islam’ (Oct 13).
Mr Husain is spot on in his analysis of Islam in the West. As a US Muslim of Pakistani descent, I have tried to promote the peaceful teachings of Islam through media interviews, newspaper articles and giving non-credit courses in community colleges.
But our peaceful voices are drowned by Muslim leaders when they remain silent on issues like loyalty to one’s country of residence, punishment for apostasy, and separation of church and state.
Case in point: During my last course at the community college a Caucasian...
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