My first History Thread - hope to post a lot on ancient history in the future
The Third Crusade (1189 – 1192 A.D.) was just one of a series of religious wars fought between Muslims in the Middle East and European Christians to take control of the Holy City of Jerusalem. This Third...
I find it ridiculous that a former Union minister of India can be so closet minded and is calling for a state along the lines of Israel.
I would want the Indians' opinion on this above article and I wonder how many of them think along the same bigoted lines too?
Israel: Halt Home Demolitions
Compensate Scores of People Displaced in West Bank Communities
June 21, 2011
(Jerusalem) - Israel should end discriminatory policies that have forcibly displaced hundreds of West Bank Palestinian residents from their homes, Human Rights Watch said today. In...
Ref: Time for the minorities to wake up – The Express Tribune Blog
If what Zia Khan is right, do the minorities in Pakistan have enough of a voice to put forward in the state assembly without fear of resentment?
If yes, I would ask the forum's Pakistanis what they can do and how...
Ref: "Imposing Modernity:" Cultural Genocide in Tibet
The recent Crackdown on Tibetan writers who just documented what happened in 2008 is plain sad.
I invite the broadminded Chinese (who would not troll) to explain why the state imposes such hardline policies when it comes to Tibetans...
This question is to my Israeli folks in the forum. To me Aliyah comes across a political Zionist agenda which clearly looks at increasing the population of "true Jews" in Israel.
Whether you like it or not, the book of Deutoronomy had a lot of contradictory stuff and if you are unbiased you...
Can someone recommend to me any new good ghazal artists from Pakistan? Actually old, unfamiliar one (the ones not in list below) will also do.
I already have a collection consisting of these artists which I got from wiki:
* Roshan Ara Begum
* Abida Parveen
* Ahmed Rushdi
*...