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Posts Tagged ‘Farhat Hashmi’

Muharram, a holiday? Living as a Shia in today’s Pakistan


Muharram, a holiday? Living as a Shia in today’s Pakistan

The ever increasing silent Saudi-ization (or Wahhabi-ization) of moderate Muslims in Pakistan, India and elsewhere has had an adverse effect on the culture of plurality, mutual respect and tolerance within the world of Islam. Thanks to the Saudi-Salafi funded preachers(e.g., Zakir Naik, Farhat Hashmi, Taqi Usmani, late Dr. Israr Ahmed, Islam [...]

Saudi-funded TV channels continue to radicalize Muslim youth


Saudi-funded TV channels continue to radicalize Muslim youth

With billions of petro dollars to fund their global clout, the Saudi lobbies have simply brought off opposition to their continued efforts to spread Wahabism worldwide.  In failing to confront Wahabism, North America and Europe remain paralysed by a combination of political correctness and a racism of lower expectations while in muslim majority [...]

This is not a carrot – by Nadeem F. Paracha


This is not a carrot – by Nadeem F. Paracha

Are ‘soft’ Islamic evangelical organisations playing an unwitting role in the radicalisation of urban youth?   Storm after storm After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991), the Pakistani society was flushed with the idea (duly propagated by the military-establishment) that it were the [...]

Female suicide bombers: A Farhat Hashmi production


Female suicide bombers: A Farhat Hashmi production

Related article: Dr Farhat Hashmi: Cultivating Al Qaeda in Muslim women کیا اب خواتین، خودکش حملے کریں گی؟ رحیم اللہ یوسف زئی پاکستان کے قبائلی علاقوں مہمند اور باجوڑ میں عسکریت پسندوں کے حملوں کی نئی لہر، جس میں [...]

Daughters of Al Huda – by Khaled Ahmed


Daughters of Al Huda – by Khaled Ahmed

We are wrong to look for terrorist tracts in the madrassa. The suicide bomber is not made through syllabi but through isolation from society. When we wish to produce a normal citizen we begin by socialising the child. Anyone withdrawing from society by rejecting its norms is ripe for the plucking by the terrorists. The residential madrassa [...]

Dr Farhat Hashmi: Cultivating Al Qaeda in Muslim women


Dr Farhat Hashmi: Cultivating Al Qaeda in Muslim women

Biography Dr Farhat Hashmi, daughter of the (late) scholar Abdur Rehman Hashmi, is a mother of four, and comes from the Indo-pak subcontinent. She received her Ph.D. in Hadith Sciences from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Al-Huda International Welfare Foundation, established in 1994, is the brainchild of Dr Farhat and her husband, Dr [...]

Three female suicide bombers in Lahore attack: Brainwashed by Farhat Hasmi


Three female suicide bombers in Lahore attack: Brainwashed by Farhat Hasmi

Dr Farhat Hashmi is a notorious, hate-spreading Wahhabi preacher, who has successfully brainwashed hundred of innocent girls and women in Pakistan and abroad by bringing them into (more...)

The Saudi-isation of Pakistan – By Pervez Hoodbhoy


The Saudi-isation of Pakistan – By Pervez Hoodbhoy

The Saudi-isation of PakistanA stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.By Pervez HoodbhoyThe common belief in Pakistan is that Islamic radicalism is a problem only in FATA, and that madrassas are the only institutions serving as jihad factories. This is a serious misconception. Extremism [...]