Akber Ahmed Choudhry

After I raised the issues of Asad Shah’s mental issues and how his family and community should have stepped in much earlier, the usual Qadiani Ahmadiyya suspects started commenting on it as ‘baseless’ and ‘rubbish’. Like any other cult followers, they did not venture to seek the facts, but

There is a picture with text circulating on social media that implies that the vast majority of Muslims are the same as the few terrorists. Without honouring it by reproducing it here, I attempt to re-define the three classes mentioned in it: Jihadists/Islamists/Terrorists : Those who take the theology

Yes, there are conspiracies in this world, but let us look at the three signs of a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories are usually nurtured by those who don’t understand how the world works or how it is changing. Here are three criteria I came up with: The theorist’s

The End of the Arab Spring, the Rise of ISIS and the Future of Political Islam, by Khaled Abou El Fadl A good summary of the Middle Eastern problems. An excerpt: It is no accident that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, performed the highly pretentious and very Hollywood-esque

From Enver Masud (disclaimer: I do not subscribe to his 9/11 conspiracy theories), without fact-checking: Iran probably stopped pursuing a nuclear bomb in 2003, according to the most recently published U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, the consensus of 16 intelligence agencies including the CIA. Binyamin Netanyahu's dramatic declaration to

Jim Clancy, a seasoned CNN reporter for 34 years may have been on to something when he decided to resign after denouncing what he deemed to be 'hasbara', a word associated with apologists for Israel and Zionism. Else, why would he just resign? Here is the scoop: http://www.independent.