Aki Nawaz (born Haq Nawaz Qureshi) also known as Aki-Stani and Propa-Gandhi, is a British-Pakistani producer and musician.He is the front man of Band Fun-da-mental, a group that fuses left-wing politics, Sufi Islam, anti-racism and hip hop. His works can be purchased here.
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As a student of history of relations between Muslims and Christians, the headlines have made grim readings for me personally, as I genuinely feel that there is a connection between both traditions of the Followers of the Books of Abraham.
56 killed in a Baghdad church and continuous attacks on Christian neighbourhoods of Iraq, Iraq’s Christian [...]
Champions of orthodoxy might scorn the theological purity (or lack there of) of Sufi Movement but the original purpose of ‘Sufi Kirk (Church)’ also known as ‘Dutch Sufis’ was to bring different (and often opposing) theological and cultural traditions together through realisation that the basis of all the religions is the ‘common good’ preached by [...]
“Men of Conviction” tells the fascinating tale of three desperate and disparate young men, released from prison on the same day. They are Hussein, the Islamist preacher of Jihad, Wayne the burglar and Dovid the religious Jew and ‘one offence fraudster’. “Men of Conviction” is their story over the ensuing ten years. Hussein, predictably, builds [...]
A Muslim man has gone to the High Court in Ireland demanding that he be allowed bring in his second wife to Ireland.The native of Lebanon, where polygamy is allowed, says his polygamous marriage must be recognized.
Liam Egan, a member of the Muslim Public Affairs Congress, told the Irish Sunday Times the man was being [...]
With an Ivy League education, a quiet charm, and two acclaimed novels that expertly explore the dissonance of a global world, Mohsin Hamid is the face of a literary flowering in Pakistan. The 38-year-old writer — an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard Law School — chucked a job with consulting firm McKinsey in London to [...]
Forgive an outsider and staunch atheist like myself who, on reading the recent French press comments relating to Ilhem Moussaid the hijab-wearing NPA candidate in Avignon, gets the impression that something is rotten in French political culture. Let’s take the debate at face-value. A young Muslim woman joins the NPA [New Anti-Capitalist Party]. She obviously [...]
With an Ivy League education, a quiet charm, and two acclaimed novels that expertly explore the dissonance of a global world, Mohsin Hamid is the face of a literary flowering in Pakistan. The 38-year-old writer — an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard Law School — chucked a job with consulting firm McKinsey in London to [...]
Most Pakistani immigrants I talked to were honest and forthright. They all admitted that they had entered Greece illegally and are struggling hard. The story of young Waqas Ahmed, who hails from a small village of Gujrat, is typical. He had paid Rs 700,000 to the agent in Gujrat to get to Unaan
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In order to understand the development of Islamic theocracy in Pakistan, we have to understand the different political forces present in pre partition North West India. It is prudent to restrict the analysis to right wing Muslim parties as, regardless of their stance on independent Pakistan; in post partition political spectrum ring wing became the [...]
