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Wahi: The
Supernatural Basis of Islam
Part I
- The Yogic View of the Quranic Trance
Dr. Koenraad ELST
In discussing Islam, most non-Muslims tend
to focus on the negative achievements of Islam, such as Islamic
mistreatment of women and unbelievers. However, we should realize that
in its essence, Islam is a belief system, a truth claim. The Islamic
religion stands or falls with the truth or untruth of two assertions:
(1) there is no God but Allah, the Creator of the universe; and (2)
Mohammed is the final spokesman of Allah, who through him passed on to
mankind a series of messages assembled in the Quran........More... Suicidal
Restraint
Subodh
Atal, Ph. D.
Since 1999, a wide variety of initiatives
have been taken by the Government of India to bring about an end to the
violence in its Jammu and Kashmir state. In spring of that year, PM
Vajpayee traveled to Lahore and met with then Pakistani leader Nawaz
Sharif. That summit was sabotaged before it even got under way, with
then Chief of Army Staff Musharraf orchestrating an invasion of the
Kargil heights in India. The Kargil war followed, with India sticking to
a self-imposed restraint regarding crossing the LOC.......More...
Indianness and Islam
Vinod
Kumar
A Karachi based
Pakistani social scientist while visiting India recently, coming across
a large hoarding advertising a new serial Draupadi, asked an Indian
friend, "Who Draupadi was?" In a column in Dawn (9 Sept 2002), he wrote
the Indian friend was "shocked" by his question. "Hai Rama, what kind of
South Asian are you?" she cried in disbelief......More...
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