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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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Osama Rawal August 20, 2025 India counterterrorism, Indian Mujahideen, Indian terrorism history, Islamic radicalization India, Islamist movements in India, Islamist radicalism South Asia, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Safdar Nagori, Shahid Badar Falahi, SIMI and jihad, SIMI and Lashkar comparison, SIMI banned organization, SIMI evolution, SIMI exclusive interviews, SIMI India, SIMI intelligence infiltration, SIMI Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, SIMI underground network, SIMI vs Indian Mujahideen, Students Islamic Movement of India

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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Osama Rawal August 7, 2025August 29, 2025 2012 hate speech, AIMIM, akbaruddin owaisi, asaduddin owaisi, communal propaganda, communal rhetoric, communal violence India, Communalism, freedom of speech, hate speech in India, hate speech laws India, Hindu right-wing, Hindu-Muslim relations, hindutva, Indian democracy, Indian elections, Indian media bias, indian muslims, indian politics, Islam in India, minority politics, Muslim politicians, Owaisi brothers controversy, political hypocrisy, political polarization India, religious tensions India, sectarianism in India, South Asian politics, symbolic resistance, Telangana politics

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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OPINION: Is Muslim Leadership in India Just a Reactive Force?

Only then will Muslims cease to be ruled in the name of fear—and start living as full citizens of a

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Osama Rawal June 26, 2025July 21, 2025 anti-zionism vs antisemitism, Gaza crisis, global solidarity movements, humanitarian crisis Gaza, islam vs universalism, islamist narratives, islamization of palestinian cause, Israel Hamas war, justice beyond religion, Middle East politics, moral hypocrisy, muslim confusion palestine, muslim jewish relations, muslim solidarity, neturei karta, palestine conflict, pan-islamism, religious identity politics, selective empathy, universal justice

OPINION: Gaza Vs. Israel—The Double Standards of Islamist Outrage

True commitment to justice means standing with all oppressed people, regardless of faith—not just those who resemble us. The Palestinian