M. Ashaq Malik's Blog (10)

25 November has been designated as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by the UN General Assembly - resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This day (date) came into existence from the brutal assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic in 1960, on the orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).

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Here is an interview with Maulana Wahiduddin Khan,founder of International Centre for Peace and Spirituality, New Delhi, and noted islamic scholar and reformer who has adpated peace as mission of his life. Maulana has written more than 200 books

David Clark, The Guardian

Now that the government has disowned the idea of a war on terror, there is a chance that Western policy can be rescued from the quicksands of Iraq and provided with a strategy capable of defeating jihadism. The attempt to meet this diffuse and stateless threat primarily with weapons and concepts devised for interstate warfare has been a costly error. It has led to a massive diversion of resources from the task of dealing with those responsible for 9/1

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

- Matthew, V:9

God is not merciful to him who is not so to mankind.

- Prophet Mohammed

Here are interesting imaginative letters written to Mahatma Gandhi and Osama bin Laden by Bhikhu Parekh's, a professor of political philosophy, published on the Prospect ma

No religion has taught the violence, hatred or bloodshed but still we are watching these in immense proportions. Where the fault exactly exists? What are the reasons of this trauma?

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