Eqbal ahmad quotes about life

Eqbal Ahmad (1933 – 11 May 1999) was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism.

Quotes

• I think we should begin by recognizing that Pakistani and Indian rulers are caught in medieval militaristic minds.

  They are no more modern than the Clintons and the Bushes, who see power in terms of military prowess. We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

  • Confronting Empire (2017)[2000], p.

    Eqbal ahmad quotes about life and death

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• …When people think of Islam and Muslims, they think normally of places like Iran and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and not of places like India and Indonesia. Secondly, when they think of fundamentalism, they always think of Islam and Muslims and not of other very menacing fundamentalist movements, such as the Hindu fundamentalists in India or the Christian fundamentalists in Serbia.

  So Islam is thought of in more than one distorted way… Similarly, quite frankly, if Ronald Reagan and his