Archive for the 'The Common Moral' Category

29 Oct 2010

2010 Election: Referendum on Reality, Racism, and Revisionist History

By Bill Noxid It’s an all but unfathomable situation President Obama has placed the American people in.  In a mere two years he has managed to squander the momentum and enthusiasm of the clear majority of this country, systematically discredit and disregard the voluminous grievances of the American People, continuously cede the moral and factual [...]

03 Oct 2010

Hypocrisy Anyone?

By Anwaar Hussain Someone needed to say this, so there. We huff and puff, in a self-righteous rage, over the refusal of a few in the US of A to allow the building of a mosque near ground zero. For the bigots on either side especially, the issue has become so consuming that its is [...]

29 Aug 2010

Bloodied be thy name

By Nadeem F. Paracha It was horrifying: the beating to death and then the upside down hanging of the two young brothers in Sialkot. Accused of theft, the teenagers were brutally beaten with sticks and kicks by at least four men — an event that was watched in silence by a couple of cops and [...]

26 Aug 2010

The limits of tolerance

By Irfan Husain The ongoing furore over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque shows no sign of abating after weeks of noisy controversy. In a sense, it has become a litmus test of America’s cherished freedom of worship, as well as its tolerance of other people and other faiths. But to put things in perspective, I [...]

25 Aug 2010

Putting a brave face on standing tall

A heartfelt thanks to the young American servicemen and women who are helping our people caught in the devastating floods. They are operating in a country that is considered hostile to America by pollsters. May the Almighty keep them in His care and return them to their loved ones safely. By Kamran Shafi There is [...]

26 Feb 2010

The Misery on our Faces

By Ayaz Amir Times may be hard but why add to the sum of national misery? Some of our afflictions, like the economic downturn and the war raging along the Afghan frontier, may be beyond anyone’s control. But some are entirely self-created. We are not a police state in the political sense of the term. [...]

11 Feb 2010

Of Surfers and Sufferers

A Truth Spring exclusive By Pervaiz Alam* The other day I was driving on one of Islamabad’s roads when I saw a black Mercedes slightly bumping into a car moving ahead. Four young men alighted from that car, rushed to the Mercedes, dragged out the young driver and started beating him, calling him a drunkard. [...]

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