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April 10, 2011

Times of India: Pak Sufis become victim of West's great expectations

by Sameer Arshad
The Times of India

When two young men blew themselves up at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Punjab province last Sunday, killing 42, it was yet another assault on Islam's most vulnerable, allegedly least threatening strand — Sufism.

But this form of spiritualism, which centres on the mystical connection between the individual and the divine, is a victim of its own renaissance.

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