It's hard for many to understand the difference between Islam and Islamism. Traditional Muslim scholars don't agree with the term Islamism. They argue that Islam should be the only version of Muslims. The critics of Islam, however, consider the whole body of Islam as Islamism and Muslims as Islamists.

As Pakistan is a hub and battlefield for Islamic ideas and extremism, its geopolitics and mode of governance have been a concern for rest of the world.

Apart from this fact, there is another reason to keep eyes on the nation's political scenario due to the presence of large Pakistani...

The Boston Bombing mystery is unfolding in another tragedy of a police officer being killed by Boston Marathon Bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarmaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The media reports reveal that one of the bombing suspects robbed a convenience store on Thursday night in the suburbs of Boston. Then followed...

Should Canada not worry about acts of terrorism by Canadians occurring in different parts of the world, or hostile sentiments against Canadian armed forces? The debate revolves around the new proposed member bill tabled by Conservative MP Devinder Shory in the Parliament Hill.

MP Devinder Shory's Bill...

Why is it in the interest of Muslims in Canada to recognize Israel's rights to exist? This was the question posed by a speaker in a seminar in Mississauga a couple days ago arranged by the Canadian Thinkers' Forum.

Muslim Committee against anti-Semitism under the umbrella of Canadian Thinkers'...

Pakistan didn't stage any memorial service on second anniversary of assassinated minority minister Shahbaz Bhatti but a Canadian group, International Christian Voice did.

Prime Minister Canada Stephen Harper took about five minutes in his speech to paying tribute to late Bhatti last month in Vaughan Ont, while announcing the Office...

The claim of Toronto base group "Canadians against Bloodshed" that Zionist plots are behind recent massacre of Hazara community Shias in Balochistan province of Pakistan is bizarre and shocking.

The poster of this protest clearly reads "Long live Shia Sunny Unity -- Down with Zionist plots." The organizers and speakers...

The debate as to who speaks for Muslims in the West has festered among the minds of the western intelleigentsia and politicians since Islamists have capitalised on this question.

There are hundreds of Islamic organizations in North America and each one wants to take ownership of it. Is it all...

"Canada will burn, praise Allah," someone wrote on the walls of the Victory Peace memorial in Toronto. We do know for sure that two Afghan-Canadian ladies, Suraia Sahar and Laila Rashidie, were holding a banner in the anti-war protest outside the Remembrance Day ceremony which took...

Thank you Madonna for beating the drum for Malala Yousafzai. You have delivered a strong message to all celebrities across the world that they have to come out of their cozy lives and needed to be well informed as you are. Thank you Madonna for saying the words, "Support education!...

The whole world is witnessing the clash of civilization riots these days in the wake of Innocence of Muslims movie trailer. A Muslim has tweeted the situation as "There was no movie about #Muhammad(SAW), it was just a trailer. The protests Muslims are holding are the movie."

It's said that a majority of Muslims have been hijacked by a tiny percentage of Islamic extremists. But it's also true that many Muslims consider the incidents of September 11, 2001, to have been staged by the Bush administration, the CIA, Jews, etc.

The question arises as to why a...

The arrest of 11-year-or-so-old Christian girl, Rimsha Masih, in Pakistan in connection with the blasphemy charges has shocked the world but not Pakistan and majority Pakistanis.

For instance, a Pakistani Canadian from Mississauga, Ontario Canada wrote on the Internet in the wake of this senseless...

I cannot understand why people shy away from saying Merry Christmas to each other these days. It was not like that a couple of years ago. It seems as if people in the malls and public places are avoiding Christmas greetings out of fear that someone may be offended.

In...

Is wearing a burka in Canada a matter of religious obligation, cultural tradition, religious freedom and women rights, or an exhibition of political Islam? This question is afresh again because of the recent announcement by Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenny that veiled woman are required to remove niqabs or burkas...