Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Qanta Ahmed http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Mon, 20 May 2013 15:22:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Israel’s jihad is mine http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-jihad-is-mine/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-jihad-is-mine/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:35:10 +0000 Qanta Ahmed http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=93732 As Israel considers building a new fence to contain the Syrian conflict to the north, which fences can keep out Hamas’s even more lethal ideologies? While Gaza and the Muslim Arab world continue to claim victory in the recent Israel-Hamas conflict, for the sane observers among us, there is only ever defeat – the defeat of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-jihad-is-mine/feed/ 233 Intimidating freedom: The Muslim imperative to oppose Islamists http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/intimidating-freedom-the-muslim-imperative-to-oppose-islamists/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/intimidating-freedom-the-muslim-imperative-to-oppose-islamists/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:53:21 +0000 Qanta Ahmed http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=66950 Recent events reveal how readily Muslim rage can be manipulated for political expediency. Protesting “Islamic blasphemy” has become as a new weapon of mass destruction, one targeting and paralyzing both Western and pluralistic Muslim interests. In a closely coordinated series of events, an efficient terrorist attack eliminating American diplomats was launched in Benghazi and executed [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/intimidating-freedom-the-muslim-imperative-to-oppose-islamists/feed/ 45 Pakistan and blasphemy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-and-blasphemy/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-and-blasphemy/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:28:55 +0000 Qanta Ahmed http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=62520 Eleven-year-old Rimsha Masih, a Christian Pakistani girl with Down’s Syndrome, remains incarcerated, due to an accusation of blasphemy filed against her by a mendacious cleric who is now on remand for framing the child with planted evidence. The child has been confirmed by physicians to be both a minor and mentally disadvantaged — despite Pakistan [...]

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