Linking nationality and IQ is wrong A study claiming people who live in countries where disease is rife have lower IQs is flawed on many levels Gavin Evans guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 July 2010 11.10 BST Article history The idea of a link between nationality and intelligence has a long pedigree – certainly as ancient as slavery and colonialism. And in its faux-scientific form, well, Darwin dabbled, Churchill embraced and Hitler implemented. The latest burst comes from Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico, who once proposed the idea that men evolved with a genetic predisposition to rape (raising the … Continue reading Linking nationality and IQ

Bin Laden, the Taliban, Zawahiri: Britain’s done business with them all Five years after the 7/7 bombings in London, the UK’s decades-long collusion with radical Islam is still going strong Mark Curtis guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 July 2010 20.30 BST Article history When the London bombers struck five years ago, many people blamed the invasion of Iraq for inspiring them. But the connection between 7/7 and British foreign policy goes much deeper. The terrorist threat to Britain is partly “blowback”, resulting from a web of British covert operations with militant Islamist groups stretching back decades. And while terrorism is held up as … Continue reading Britain’s done business with terrorists and still is!

VIEW: Extremists’ war on people’s Islam —Yasser Latif Hamdani The Deoband philosophy is a rejectionist philosophy, which rejected modernity and saw the British as the embodiment of western irreligious thought and materialism The attack on Hazrat Ali Hajvery’s shrine has struck at the root of Lahore’s religious and cultural ethos. For 1,000 years, this city has been sustained by the cultural openness and tolerance that Ali Hajvery, or as he is known to the people of Lahore, Data, gave us. Indeed, Lahore is famously called Data Ki Nagri for the Data was, in a way, the famed Afghan warrior-plunderer, Mahmud … Continue reading Mullahs Against Islam!

COMMENT: Life must go on —Dr Syed Mansoor Hussain The concept of brain death has allowed heart donations to occur in people who are no longer functionally alive but their hearts are still working. In Pakistan, this concept is now legally established but is obviously not yet publicly accepted The need to write about the horrific attack on Data Darbar (tomb of the sufi saint Ali Hajvery) in Lahore is overwhelming but I will resist the urge to do so. Not because I do not want to say anything about it but rather because there is nothing I can say … Continue reading Life must go on

VIEW: Dissecting dissent —Shahzad Chaudhry Militaries the world over do not get deployed on executive impulse alone. This is serious business meant to achieve militarily what seems impossible diplomatically. When militaries apply, they do so to win McChrystal, by all accounts, was on self-destruct while granting the privilege of proximity to an interposing journalist. Why did he do it? Was it McChrystal’s failure, or does it point to a larger institutional malady? The underlying reasons though are difficult to come by unless one can literally see below the surface at the life and times of any operational commander on his … Continue reading Dissecting dissent

dawn.com In this picture taken on August 24, 2006, Indian detective Sanjay Singh uses a pair of binoculars to keep an eye on an apartment in New Delhi. – AFP NEW DELHI: The wedding, to be celebrated in sumptuous Indian style, was due for June and everything was progressing smoothly until the groom suddenly lost interest. Suspicious of an affair, the bride did what increasing numbers of anxious lovers and nervous families are doing in India: she rang a private detective to find out why. In a country where nine out of 10 marriages are still arranged and modern social … Continue reading Private detectives: a pre-nuptial priority for some in India

By Khurram Ali Shafique This is an interactive summary of the works of the Poet-Philosopher Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), one of the most significant disciples of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) in modern times. It is a voice of hope and a call for bringing positive change. The Republic of Rumi: a Novel of Reality presents the works of Iqbal as a virtual reality: a “Garden of Poetry” which consists of five zones that come up successively. As you search for Joseph in this everchanging garden, you pass through seven stages and your role changes at each stage. The novel … Continue reading The Republic of Rumi: a Novel of Reality

telegraph.co.uk ‘Magic’ World Cup python seized in South Africa A snake used by a South African fortuneteller to “control” the progress of teams in the World Cup has been seized by animal welfare inspectors, a spokesman said Monday. Published: 12:59PM BST 05 Jul 2010 A nine-foot-long Burmese rock python was being used by a sangoma in a Cape Town township to communicate with the ancestors Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY The nine-foot-long Burmese rock python was being used by a sangoma in a Cape Town township to communicate with the ancestors, to ask them to intercede in World Cup matches, said Sarah Scarth, … Continue reading Magic Snake and The World Cup!

telegraph.co.uk Iran government issues style guide for men’s hair Ponytails are out but side-partings and Elvis quiffs are in. Not the latest fashion advice from a celebrity magazine, but a list of acceptable male hairstyles issued by the Iranian government. By Anita Singh Published: 8:09PM BST 05 Jul 2010 An official describes appropriate hairstyles for men at an official hairstyle show in Tehran Photo: REUTERS In an attempt to rid the country of “decadent Western cuts”, Iran’s culture ministry has produced a catalogue of haircuts that meet government approval. The list of banned styles includes ponytails, mullets and elaborate spikes. … Continue reading Hair must be to the Mullahs approval!

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