Sultan Shahin
Sultan Shahin
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59 years old
Paramaribo, South America
Suriname
Last Login: 7/10/2009
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| General | Mostly reading, occasionally watching movies and listening to ghazals | | Music | Indian classical and ghazals | | Movies | Comedies, social, | | Television | BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera. | | Books | Islam, ideology and culture, Muslim politics, international relations and general current affairs |
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking | | Body type: | 5' 5" / Average | | Ethnicity: | Asian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Occupation: | Journalist |
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Stay away from yoga camps: Cut off your nose to spite your neighbour’s faith!
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Stay away from yoga camps: Cut off your nose to spite your neighbour’s faith!
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Please credit Americans with some intelligence, Mr. Kanchan Gupta!
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About me:
My name is SULTAN SHAHIN. I am a journalist, based in Paramaribo, Suriname, South America. I was born in 1949 in a village in Bihar, India. There was no school to go to, so my father, an Urdu teacher and a Maulvi (religious teacher) taught me initially. I graduated from Patna University in 1972, with English literature as my main subject, and have been mostly a Delhi-based journalist since. I spent most of 1980s in London and travelled in Europe and North America extensively. I have worked mainly as a freelance writer of opinion pieces for most Indian publications. My subject is South Asian politics, with special reference to Muslim politics, Islamic ideology and culture, India-Pakistan relations, and Hindu-Muslim relations. Indian newspapers introduce me as a specialist in Muslim politics and culture. I have been writing columns for Asia Times online,(atimes.com) a Hong Kong-based website since 1999. I can be reached at sultanshahin@yahoo.co.uk or sultanshahin@hotmail.com
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Who I'd like to meet:
No obscurantists, please! The Muslim community is at a crossroads. Has been there for some time, standing confused, not knowing which road to take. Some Muslims, of course, have no such confusion. They think they know what Islam is all about, how their lives are to be ordered, where the world is going and what is their role in it. Actually, they don't think so, they know this and believe in it. These are the people of certainly, unthinking certainty. They have a stock answer to every question: this is what the Prophet did (peace be upon him) 1400 years ago and this is what we should do today. There is no confusion in their minds over whether we even know exactly what the Prophet did, why and under precisely what circumstances. And, of course, there is no confusion in their minds over whether we can even live today in every respect the way Muslims lived 1400 years ago. Nor about whether this is what the Prophet expected of us, whether Islam does actually ordain that we remain stuck in a lifestyle of 6th century AD when the world moves on to the 21st or the 31st.
This is not my constituency. Certainty, unthinking certainty, whether in the mind of a Bush or in the mind of a bin-Laden is dangerous, leads to disastrous consequences. This page is not for the obscurantists, the unthinking dangerous know-all obscurantists, who have brought Islam and Muslims to such disrepute. I would like to attract some people who are prepared to think afresh, who have unresolved questions in their minds, who may be confused about the direction they should take, who may even be considering changing their names so that they do not sound so authentically Muslim and thus invite trouble, even though they would like to continue to remain Muslim and follow its Spirit. I would like to sit down and brainstorm with Muslims who read news stories of scientific and technological, political and economic developments and wonder what it means to be a Muslim in this day and age. People who wonder what are the practices they can continue to follow and what they can't and whether this would be in accordance with the Spirit of Islam to do so.
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