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| Mosques as Barracks, Minarets as Bayonets |
Mosques as Barracks, Minarets as Bayonets
 Kanchan Gupta
Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was being faithful to his creed when he declared, "Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a fascist Sunni imam with a huge following among those who subscribe to the Muslim Brotherhood's antediluvian worldview, was more to the point when he thundered at an event organised by London's then Labour mayor Ken Livingstone, "The West may have the at...
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| INACS to Integrate Past and Present Knowledge |
INACS to Integrate Past and Present Knowledge
From VOIF Correspondent
Seeking to formalize studies in Civilizational Knowledge System with the aim of constituting "Integral Knowledge" by redefining contemporary studies, the Indian National Academy of Civilizational Studies (INACS) held its annual conference on November 27 at Tagore Hall, Delhi University Campus, New Delhi. It was attended by many intellectuals, researchers, educationists and students in the background of civilisational studies in India, its historical evolution, an assessm...
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| Bin Laden Butchering to Educating Muslim Clerics |
Bin Laden Butchering to Educating Muslim Clerics
 Lt. Col. (Retd.) Mahendra Mathur
Osama Bin Laden is both - one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Muslim world. An immensely wealthy and private man, Bin Laden` was granted a safe haven by the then Afghanistan's ruling Taliban Movement in the nineties. During his time in hiding, he called for a holy war against the US, and for the killing of Americans and Jews. He also set up Islamic training centres to prepare Taliban soldiers to fight.His power is founded on a...
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| Editorial: Swiss Referendum Bans Minarets |
Editorial: Swiss Referendum Bans Minarets
The Editorial Team
In an unexpected development Swiss people imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, voting overwhelmingly in a referendum. The referendum was passed with a clear majority of 57.5 percent of the voters in 22 of Switzerland's 26 cantons. Out of a population of 7.5 million there are about 4, 00,000 Muslims in Switzerland who have some 150 mosques or prayer rooms. A very aggressive campaign was launched in support of ban with posters de...
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| Everybody Loves a Good Riot | Everybody Loves a Good Riot
Vinay Sitapati
If the Liberhan Commission's recommendations on religion and politics read like a Miss World speech, so does the hurriedly prepared Action Taken Report. The ATR, tabled in Parliament by the Central government on Tuesday, is couched in general terms. The one concrete proposal refers to the "Communal Violence Bill," languishing in Parliament since 2005. The reference is meant to reassure. For, when confronted with the complex web of systems that failed on December 6, 1992...
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