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"The Assassins" of Angels & Daemons

Posted on 18 May 2009. Tags: Agha Khanis, Assassins, Islam, Ismailis

Dan Brown has a knack for taking history, and using the mysteries of symbols to create fabulous thrillers. His magnificent book “The Da Vinci Code” was based on factual books by Michael Baigent Ms. Alaine Pagels etc. While the “Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction Baegent’s “The Jesus Papers” is not fiction. Pagels and others have shed light on the Gnostic Bibles and the other possibilities for the death of Jesus and the possibility that he may have survived the Crucifixion. All this would have remained conjecture–but then a few decades ago The Naag Hamidi texts and the Red Sea Scrolls began to appear on the scene. Though Israel has hid many of the papers, the authenticity of the doucments sheds light on Christianity as never before.

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Was Musa Ibn Maymun the great Arab Scholar a Jew or was Moses Maimonides a Muslim?

Posted on 04 January 2009. Tags: Interfaith, Islam, Judaism, Moses Maimonides, Musa Ibn Maymun

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Mohandas Gandhi attempt to resusitate the crumbling British empire failed

Posted on 14 June 2008. Tags: Bharat, British Empire, Gandhi, India, Pat Buchanan

Gandhi’s feeble attempt to resuscitate life into the British Empire failed dramatically and the empire crumbled by Moin Ansari Pat Buchanan has written a fascinating new book titled “Churchill, Hitler, and the Uncecessary War-How Britain Lost its Empire and the West Lost the World.” The title itself is self explanatory. In a profound analysis investigating [...]

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Book Reveiw: The Last Days of the American Rupublic

Posted on 31 January 2008. Tags: 1947, A Q Khan, AAJ, Adnkronos International, Akhand Bharat, Aliph, America, American Aid, Arabs, ARY One World, ARY TV, ARYOneWorld, Asif Zardari, Asrar Ahmad, Atomic Bomb, Azhar, Bad History, Benazir, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto, Bible, Bilawal Bhutto, Brahmin, Britain CA, Cabinet Mission Plan, Carnage, Chaudhry Shujaat, Chottu Ram, CIA, Communication skills, Dawn, Democracy, Domestic Violence, Dr. Ghamdi, Dr. Shahid Mahmud, Election Commission of Pakistan, Elections in Pakistan, England, English, Failed State, Faiza Dawood, Fatima Bhutto, Ferghana Valley, Gandhi, GEO, Geo TV, Geog. 2 Nation Theory, Guru Nanak, Hamid Mir, Hamilton, Hindi, History of Pakistan, History of Urdu, House of Lords, Hussain Haqqani, Imarn Khan, Imran Khan, IMU, Independence, India, Indian, ISI, Islam, Islamist Islamism, Islamphobia, Jang, Javed Iqbal, Jefferson, John, Juma Namangani, Kama Sutra, Kamran Khan, Karamchand, Kashif Abbasi, Kashmir, Killed, Koran, Lahore, Language skills, Letters, Liaqat Ali Khan, Liaqat bagh, Locke, Lord nazir, Lover, Machiavelli, Madison, Mahatma, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Mano, Marina Khan, Mashriq, Media, Mohandas, Moin Ansari, Mr. 10%, Ms. Faiza Dawood, Ms. Shaista Wahidi, Muhammad, Musharraf, Muslim Leag, Muslims, Nadia Khan, Naqai e Waqt, National Assembly, National Assembly of Pakistan, National Language Authority, Nawaz Sharif, Nehru, Neocons, Newspaper, Nuclear, Nuclear proliferation, Occidental Urban Legands, Oriental Myths, Paine, Pakistan, Pakistan Election Commission, Pakistan Ideology, Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistan National Language Authority, Pakistan Television, Pakistani Britishers, Pakistani elections, Pakistani Nukes, Pakistanis refuse to call is "partition". It was a sepa, Panja Sahib, Patel, Penury, Pervez Ilahi, PIA, PML (N), PNAC, Poli Sci, Politics, PPP, Prime Minister, Prince, PTV, Punjab, Punjabi, Pverty, Qadri Tahir Yaldeshiv, Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quotes of Z.A.Bhutto, Quran, Rawalpindi, Riots, SAARC, Sanam Bhutto, Seductress, Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mi, Senate, Senate of Pakistan, Seven Sisters, Sex, SEX LIFE OF MRS INDIRA GANDHI, Sexual perversion, Shaharyar Azhar, Shahbaz Sharif, Sikhs, Sind, Sindh, Sindh | Tagged: 1947, slept with his niece, Subcontinent, Sweet land of liberty, talat Husain, Talat Hussain, Television, Terror, Terrorist, The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, The real scoop, Tubelight, UK Empire, Unitarianism and Islam, Urban Myths, Urdu, Urdu Newspapers, Urdu proficiency of Pakistani Politicians. Urdu, USA, USA. Islam, Uzbekistan, War on Terror, Were the American Founding Fathers Muslim? Deism, Why is India Poor?, Wrong History, Zamindara League, Zardari, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr., Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Junior

Mr. Chalmers Johnson’, is “The Last Days of the American Republic is the third in a trilogy (Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire”). He is the president of the Japan Policy Research Institute. A contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Nation, among others, he appears in the [...]

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‘The Kite Runner' Critiqued: New Orientalism Goes to the Big Screen by Matthew Thomas Miller

Posted on 05 January 2008. Tags: 1947, A Q Khan, AAJ, Adnkronos International, Akhand Bharat, Aliph, America, American Aid, Arabs, ARY One World, ARY TV, ARYOneWorld, Asif Zardari, Asrar Ahmad, Atomic Bomb, Azhar, Bad History, Benazir, Benazir Bhutto, Bhutto, Bible, Bilawal Bhutto, Brahmin, Britain CA, Cabinet Mission Plan, Carnage, Chaudhry Shujaat, Chottu Ram, CIA, Communication skills, Dawn, Democracy, Domestic Violence, Dr. Ghamdi, Dr. Shahid Mahmud, Election Commission of Pakistan, Elections in Pakistan, England, English, Failed State, Faiza Dawood, Fatima Bhutto, Ferghana Valley, Gandhi, GEO, Geo TV, Geog. 2 Nation Theory, Guru Nanak, Hamid Mir, Hamilton, Hindi, History of Pakistan, History of Urdu, House of Lords, Hussain Haqqani, Imarn Khan, Imran Khan, IMU, Independence, India, Indian, ISI, Islam, Islamist Islamism, Islamphobia, Jang, Javed Iqbal, Jefferson, John, Juma Namangani, Kama Sutra, Kamran Khan, Karamchand, Kashif Abbasi, Kashmir, Killed, Koran, Lahore, Language skills, Letters, Liaqat Ali Khan, Liaqat bagh, Locke, Lord nazir, Lover, Machiavelli, Madison, Mahatma, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Mano, Marina Khan, Mashriq, Media, Mohandas, Moin Ansari, Mr. 10%, Ms. Faiza Dawood, Ms. Shaista Wahidi, Muhammad, Musharraf, Muslim Leag, Muslims, Nadia Khan, Naqai e Waqt, National Assembly, National Assembly of Pakistan, National Language Authority, Nawaz Sharif, Nehru, Neocons, Newspaper, Nuclear, Nuclear proliferation, Occidental Urban Legands, Oriental Myths, Paine, Pakistan, Pakistan Election Commission, Pakistan Ideology, Pakistan International Airlines, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistan National Language Authority, Pakistan Television, Pakistani Britishers, Pakistani elections, Pakistani Nukes, Pakistanis refuse to call is "partition". It was a sepa, Panja Sahib, Patel, Penury, Pervez Ilahi, PIA, PML (N), PNAC, Poli Sci, Politics, PPP, Prime Minister, Prince, PTV, Punjab, Punjabi, Pverty, Qadri Tahir Yaldeshiv, Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quotes of Z.A.Bhutto, Quran, Rawalpindi, Riots, SAARC, Sanam Bhutto, Seductress, Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mi, Senate, Senate of Pakistan, Seven Sisters, Sex, SEX LIFE OF MRS INDIRA GANDHI, Sexual perversion, Shaharyar Azhar, Shahbaz Sharif, Sikhs, Sind, Sindh, Sindh | Tagged: 1947, slept with his niece, Subcontinent, Sweet land of liberty, talat Husain, Talat Hussain, Television, Terror, Terrorist, The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, The real scoop, Tubelight, UK Empire, Unitarianism and Islam, Urban Myths, Urdu, Urdu Newspapers, Urdu proficiency of Pakistani Politicians. Urdu, USA, USA. Islam, Uzbekistan, War on Terror, Were the American Founding Fathers Muslim? Deism, Why is India Poor?, Wrong History, Zamindara League, Zardari, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr., Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Junior

‘The Kite Runner’ Critiqued: New Orientalism Goes to the Big Screen by Matthew Thomas Miller While The Kite Runner movie is now captivating audiences throughout the country-much as the book did four years ago-with its enthralling tale of “family, forgiveness, and friendship” and the promise that indeed “there is a way to be good again,” [...]