President Obama & the Muslim World - II

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ كُونُواْ قَوَّامِينَ لِلّهِ شُهَدَاء بِالْقِسْطِ وَلاَ يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَى أَلاَّ تَعْدِلُواْ اعْدِلُواْ هُوَ أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَى وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِنَّ اللّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
O YOU who have attained to faith! Be ever steadfast in your devotion to God, bearing witness to the truth in all equity; and never let hatred of any-one lead you into the sin of deviating from justice. Be just: this is closest to being God-conscious. And remain conscious of God: verily, God is aware of all that you do.
(Al-Qur’an, Chapter 5, Verse 8)

The ‘siege of Mumbai’ finally ended after nearly 3 days of pitched battles between the terrorists and Indian forces. There was a great post by Juan Cole, the President of the Global Americana Institute, tracing the origins of various Kashmiri militancy groups and their Pakistani and Afghanistani links:
http://www.juancole.com/2008/12/pakistani-reaganism-must-end-new.html

Fareed Zakaria (the editor of Newsweek International and a regular columnist for Newsweek, which also appears in Newsweek International and often The Washington Post and host of the Sunday political talk show ‘GPS’ on CNN) also had a great comment on his weekly CNN program, GPS. Click below to watch it:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/11/30/gps.open.commentary.1130.cnn
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2008/12/this_fire_needs_to_be_put_out.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/01/gps.fareed.tata.intv.cnn


He also had a great article posted on newsweek regarding these attacks:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2008/12/this_fire_needs_to_be_put_out.html