Op-Eds

Three Interlinked Problematics

By | 2010-05-19T06:32:00-04:00 May 19th, 2010|Op-Eds|

1]   Identity: On August 13, 1947, the Muslim Indian who went to bed resolved to remain in India woke up on August 14, 1947 still an Indian. But Muslim Indians who chose to leave India and join the new entity, Pakistan, slept as Indians and woke up the next morning having dropped the word Indian from their name and replaced it with a new appellation derived from the word ‘Pakistan’.

UK Catholic High School Forces Female Students to dress as muslims

By | 2010-05-16T13:37:00-04:00 May 16th, 2010|Op-Eds|

Female students at the Ellesmere Port Catholic High School in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire were ordered to dress like (not mandated by the Qur'an) muslim women by wearing trousers, long sleeve shirts or blouses and headscarves on a compulsory school field trip to a local mosque. Students who refused to Islamicise their outfit were punished by being branded a truant and their permanent school record marked with an unauthorized absence.