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24-Years After India Banned SIMI: A Prisoner Speaks From the Shadows

When asked what finally broke the camel’s back, he explained that tensions within SIMI had been simmering… The interviewee is

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Osama Rawal October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 empathy in conflict, extremism and ideology, Gaza conflict context, Hamas history, Hamas ideology critique, human rights in Palestine, Israeli Palestinian conflict, Israeli security policies, Middle East book recommendations, Middle East memoir analysis, moral complexity in war, Mosab Hassan Yousef, occupation and resistance analysis, Oslo Accords failure, Palestine ceasefire reflections, Palestinian Israeli peace debate, Palestinian lived experience, peace process challenges, political violence roots, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Shin Bet informant, Son of Hamas review, terrorism root causes

Beyond Good vs Evil: A Reader’s Take on “Son of Hamas” and the Cost of Conflict

The most powerful sections of Son of Hamas describe Yousef’s encounters with ordinary Israelis and Palestinians who refuse to kill….

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Osama Rawal October 18, 2025October 18, 2025 afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaqi, democracy, Deoband, Deobandi Islam, extremism, faith and fear, gender justice, human rights, india, indian muslims, Islamic seminary, political islam, radicalization, religious politics, religious reform, South Asia, taliban, theology, women’s rights

Deoband’s Hug for the Taliban: What It Says About Faith and Fear

Deoband’s embrace of the Taliban foreign minister is dangerous — but also offers an opening. Amir Khan Muttaqi, Foreign Minister

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Osama Rawal September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 anti-Hindu sentiment Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 India Pakistan, cricket and extremism, cricket and nationalism South Asia, cricket and religion Pakistan, cricket celebration controversy, cricket politics Pakistan, cross-border terrorism cricket, gun gesture with bat, India Pakistan tensions, Milli Chronicle Zahack Sir, Pahalgam massacre 2025, Pakistan cricket controversy, Pakistan cricket nationalism, Pakistan identity crisis, Pakistan supremacist ideology, provocative cricket celebrations, radical symbolism in cricket, Sahibzada Farhan gun gesture, two-nation theory cricket

When Bats Become Guns: Pakistani Cricket’s Radical Symbolism

It was interpreted, and often celebrated, as the echo of a much larger frenzy that commemorates and normalises violence against

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Osama Rawal September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 blasphemy debate India, cancel culture in India, Hindu right vs Muslim right, Indian cultural censorship, Indian Muslims and freedom of expression, Indian secularism hypocrisy, Islamic blasphemy politics, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Javed Akhtar, Kolkata Urdu Academy, left liberal silence, Mushaira controversy, Muslim clergy power, Muslim clerics censorship, Muslim intellectual freedom, selective intolerance, Taslima Nasreen precedent, Urdu literature under threat, Urdu poetry politics, Wahyahin Foundation

OPINION: Hypocrisy of the Indian Liberals — Javed Akhtar Vs. the Muslim Right-Wing

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure.

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Osama Rawal August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 Ali Mirza arrest, anti-sectarian Islam, blasphemy law debate Pakistan, clerical monopoly in Pakistan, Engineer Mohammed Ali Mirza, faith and reason in Islam, freedom of speech in Islam, Hadith-based interpretation, ideas vs mobs, Islamic clerics vs reformers, Islamic debates South Asia, Islamic reform movement, Islamic scholarship controversy, mob lynching in Pakistan, modern Islamic thought, Mufti Hanif Qureshi criticism, Mumtaz Qadri case, Muslim women and reform, Muslim youth reform, Pakistan religious intolerance, Pakistani religious reform, Qur’an and Hadith scholar, Quran-based interpretation, reformist Muslim voices, religious debates Pakistan, sectarian divisions in South Asia, silencing dissent in Pakistan, South Asian Muslim scholar, Urdu-speaking Muslim diaspora

Engineer Mirza’s Arrest: A Reformist’s Clash with Pakistan’s Mullah Mafia

What any society needs, and what Pakistan so urgently lacks, is an open environment where questions can be asked, where

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Osama Rawal August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 American foreign policy and Islam, countering extremism, Islam and peace, Islam and terrorism debate, Islam and violence misconceptions, Islam’s image crisis, Islamist extremism, Islamophobia in India, jihadist ideology, moderate muslims, moderates vs radicals in Islam, Muslim identity crisis, Muslim radicalization, Muslim silence on terrorism, Muslim world challenges, Quran misinterpretation, radical Islam, reclaiming Islamic texts, selective outrage in Islam, theological response to terrorism

OPINION: Islam’s Image Crisis—Radicals Are Vocal, Moderates Are Silent

Since the end of the Cold War, much of the Muslim world has framed terrorism carried out in Islam’s name

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SIMI Beyond the Ban: The Untold Story of India’s Islamist Student Movement

The narrative of SIMI as an omnipresent, monolithic underground force is, according to insiders, a distortion. For the first time

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OPINION: Weaponized Rhetoric in India—The Case of Akbaruddin Owaisi

Far from empowering Muslims, Akbaruddin’s rhetoric is downright foolish. In the complex and often combustible landscape of Indian politics, few

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Osama Rawal July 16, 2025July 21, 2025 communal violence India, indian muslims, intra-Muslim conflict, islamophobia, Muharram in India, Muslim ghettoisation, Muslim identity crisis, Muslim sociology, Muslim unity, sectarianism in Islam, Shia Sunni divide, subcontinental Islam, tablighi jamaat, urban Muslim migration, Wahhabis and Barelvis

OPINION: Beyond Blame—The Self-Imposed Isolation of Indian Muslims

Instead of hastily jumping to ideals of Hindu-Muslim brotherhood, perhaps we should first strive to humanize the Shia or Sunni

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