Anwar Shaikh

Mohammad Anwar Shaikh (born June 1, 1928 as Haji Mohammad - November 25, 2006) was an Punjabi-born Pakistani author residing in Cardiff"The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West" by Daniel Pipes, Pg. 283] . He was born into an Islamic Sunni family of Kashmiri ancestry in Gujrat, Punjab. His mother could recite a large part of the Qur'an from memory. During the violent days of the Partition of India in 1947 he, then filled with nationalist fervor, killed on one day two Sikhs, a father and his son. In his youth, Shaikh was a young ardent believer. ["The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, Page", Pg. 157] He later killed another Sikh. But when he reached the age of 25, he began doubting Islam and later became its ardent critic, and memories of his crime have haunted him ever since. Thereafter he immigrated into U.K., married a Welsh woman, and became a successful businessman.

Shaikh was living in Cardiff when a fatwa was issued against him from his homeland Pakistan in 1995, where at least fourteen clerics issued death sentences against him for renouncing and criticising Islam. "The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West" by Daniel Pipes, Pg. 283]

Works

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*Islam and Human Rights ( [http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1091 book available online] )
*This is Jihad
* ( [http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=790 book available online] )
*Eternity
*Faith and Deception
*Taxation and Liberty

ee also

*Apostasy in Islam
*Criticism of Islam
*List of former Muslims
*Religious conversion
*Islamic extremist terrorism

References

External links

* [http://www.hvk.org/articles/0805/82.html 1996 interview by Chandigarh Times, India] ( [http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=789 same interview] )
* [http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=790 Arab Imperialism, by Anwar Shaikh] - Book available online
** [http://www.freeman.org/m_online/feb99/shaikh.htm Review of above book, at www.freeman.org]
** [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/808 Review of this book by Daniel Pipes]
** [http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/AnwarShaikh.html review by Koen Raadelst]
** [http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/articles/AnwarShaikh.html Islam and Terrorism, 2004.] Review by Koenraad Elst
* [http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may98/shaikh.htm Islam and the People of the Book] - article by Anwar Sheikh
* [http://www.islam-watch.org/AnwarSheikh/index.html Various articles from Anwar Shaikh]
* [http://www.internationalopinion.com/view-listing-details.asp?id=lilofedrpilocomw&str=853102&yrid=2006&bk=lilohyjucerxcomw&nx=lilohyjubhnbcomw Dr. Anwar Shaikh : A Great Soul, A Great Fighter for Truth] - International Opinion