#hate preaching

I feel like this piece requires some explanation. This piece was done for an assignment called “What’s on your mind” and at the suggestion of a friend I decided to do my piece about my experience as a skeptic of religion. I want to be absolutely clear that this piece is not meant to be an insult to any religion symbolized here. In fact, it is a self-deprication of my inability to understand religion. The geometric halo represents my rigid black-and-white (true or false) way of thinking. Even as I “dissect” various belief systems, I have trouble grasping fundamental concepts, such as “faith”. I also noticed during the process of making this piece that openly skeptical views are far more likely to draw dirty looks and the like than mainstream religious views. Somehow, that makes this piece even more important to me.

America’s Hate Preachers BBC Documentary

A little bit of viewing pleasure for those who are a “fan” of Pastor Steven Anderson and his style of preaching. The BBC went out last year and put together a documentary about hate preaching in America.

  Watch it for such joyful quotes such as:

“Sinners that need saving from their liberal politics”

and

“Alot of Christians dont…

Terror, The Only Trade Afghan Taliban Have Learnt for Survival

  The carnage in Kabul on April 19 has reemphasised the costly folly of trying to coax a leopard into dropping its spots. The folly here refers to the attempts at engaging the rabid Taliban trained to kill the peace talks with the democratically-elected Afghan government. Apologists for the Taliban read in non-existent signs of their willingness to reach a peaceful settlement. But the Taliban…

LET’S TALK ABOUT PAKISTAN ; SHALL WE ? SERIES – V :LAND GRABBERS, MILITANTS REPLACE HINDUS IN THAR

LAND مافیا، عسکریت پسندوں نے تھر میں ہندوؤں کے عوض میں

پاکستان کے صوبہ سندھ میں تھرپارکر خطے آبادیاتی خصوصیات میں تبدیلی کا مشاہدہ کرنا ہے. ہندوؤں، آبادی کا 74 فیصد تھی جو – پاکستان کے سب سے بڑے حراستی – اب 45 فیصد سے بھی کم ہیں. بڑی تعداد میں عسکریت پسندوں اور مدرسے ان کو جگہ لے رہے ہیں. تھرپارکر میں ہونے والی یہ آبادیاتی خصوصیات میں تبدیلی “ناقابل تصور تناسب کے ایک انسانی تباہی کا باعث بن سکتا…

LET’S TALK ABOUT PAKISTAN ; SHALL WE ? SERIES – III….PAKISTANI’S APPEAL TO UN

SCRAP CPEC”, GILGIT-BALWARISTAN APPEALS TO THE UN In the India-Pakistan dispute over Jammu and Kashmir, the case of Gilgit-Baltistan or what its inhabitants call Balwaristan, almost always goes by default so far as the world community is concerned. It is now compelled appeal for intervention to the United Nations Secretary General.

In a communication dated 27th Feb. 2016 to Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Abdul…

Dichotomy of Crisis of the religion of Islam

The rise of ISIS and their macabre and senseless acts of terrorism, bloodshed, bigotry, and barbarism have alarmed the world, and a new wave of discourse about Islam as a faith and the Muslims as a community has begun.

It is often seen that the hypothesis “Islam promotes violence” is sited with references to the verses of the Holy Qur’an. One may argue for and against this for endless hours — and…