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The Killing Field of Quetta

Ali Gokal | Posted 11.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Killing, Shia, Balochistan, Hazara, Muslim, Quetta, Pakistan, Genocide, UK Universities & Education News
Ali Gokal

In Quetta, western Pakistan, it matters a great deal what your beliefs are. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say it is a matter of life and death. For to be a Shia Muslim in this arid region, you are living in a perpetual state of peril.

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Hazara Massacres

Lord Avebury | Posted 27.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Nick Clegg, India, Islam, Salmaan Taseer, Pakistan, Terrorism, Sunni, Terrorist, Quetta, UK Religion, Balochistan, Saudi Arabia, Lib Dems, Hazara, Kashmir, UK Politics News
Lord Avebury

A meeting in the House of Lords today will consider the latest in a series of massacres of the Hazara people in the Pakistan province of Balochistan, and its connection with the wider sectarian attacks on Shi'as throughout Pakistan.

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Breivik, Afghanistan and What Academics Are For

Llewelyn Morgan | Posted 22.03.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Shia, Islam, Muslim, Shi'A, Bamiyan, Islamophobia, Ibn Battuta, Hindu Kush, Counter-Jihad, Hazara, Buddhism, Anders Behring Breivik, Bamian, Bamyan, UK Universities & Education News
Llewelyn Morgan

My book was about the Buddhas of Bamiyan, two gigantic statues carved from a cliff face in central Afghanistan, demolished by the Taliban in 2001. I was reading Breivik, among other reasons, because he's very interested in the Hindu Kush, the band of mountains that sweeps across Afghanistan from the North-East to the West: Bamiyan sits in a valley in the heart of those mountains.

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Timbuktu: What It Really Tells Us

Llewelyn Morgan | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Shia, Wahhabi, Bamiyan, Ansar Dine, Mali, Hazara, Timbuktu, Sufi, Ansar Al-Din, Salafist, Buddhas of Bamiyan, Religion, Islam, UK Impact, UK News
Llewelyn Morgan

In reality, what is happening in Timbuktu is one group within the broad spectrum of Islam violently imposing its blinkered ideology on another tradition in Islam with which it disagrees.

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