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Is she a Shia woman
Is she a Sunni woman
Did I need to ask her
Who is she ?
A Womans bane
That she is a woman
In a sectarian Islam
A Muslims woman’s
Universal pain
A male dominated
A mullah dominated
Society
To which she is chained
A pain from time immemorial
Self contained
Her Hijab her vulnerability
Her protective armour
Uncomplained
On the roads
Begging life unsustained
Ya Allah
Ya Maulah mushkil kusha
laailaha [...]


Posted at: May 8th, 2007 - 4:11 am - Number of Comments » 0

I am copying an article ad verbatim from this mornings Times of India Mumbai India 21st Feb 2006 with the above title :
lucknow:Three days after an Uttar Pradesh minister announced a bounty for beheading a Danish cartoonist, an influential cleric on Monday issued a fatwa echoing a call and adding fuel to the simmering cauldron [...]


Posted at: March 5th, 2007 - 6:25 pm - Number of Comments » 0