1.

Inexorably intertwined
2. Immediacy
3. Dogmatically
4. Messianic
5. Charting a course
6. Bemoaned
7. Espoused
8. Stifling
9. Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
10. Hitherto
11. Inculcate
12. Abdul Karim Soroush believed that “Revealed religion is divine but the science of
religion is a thoroughly human production and construction”.
13. Epistemological Inevitability
14. Audacious
15. Maulana Wahid Uddin Khan
16. Providing a fig leaf
17. To be lost in the din of
18. Cataclysmic
19. Vanguard
20. Herald
21. Tenuous
22. Damocles
23. Parochial
24. Hours upon hours
25. Symbiotic
26. Viable
27. Writ
28. Shrivel
29. Stripped of
30. “The Law must be gender-blind. Democracy cannot work if women are subjugated,
and unable to be independent” – BB, Reconciliation
31. “From illiteracy and poverty stem hopelessness. And from hopelessness come
desperation and extremism” – BB, Reconciliation
32. “One of the most efficient ways to dent illiteracy in society is to educate mothers” –
BB, Reconciliation
33. Collaterals
34. Grameen Bank in Bangladesh
35. Thereby
36. Dismay
37. To be at the vanguard of
38. “There can be no democracy without a civil society just as there can be no democracy
without the rule of law” – BB, Reconciliation
39. Linchpin
40. All the stranger
41. Scripture
42. Clout
43. Some International Islamic Women Groups:
WOTU (Women of the Ummah)
International Federation of Women Against Fundamentalism and For Equality
American Muslim Women’s Association
United Muslim Women Association
South Asian Women’s Network
Sufi Women Organization
Federation of Muslim Women
BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights
44. Women’s Rights Groups working in Pakistan:
Learning and Caring Society
Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies
ROZAN
Pakistan Women Lawyers Association
Women Citizen Community Board
All Pakistan Women’s Association for Health and Economic Welfare
The Aurat Foundation
War Against Rape
Women-Alert
45. Sensitized
46. Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women
Jordanian Women’s Union
Istanbul Bar Association Women’s Rights Enforcement Center
Willows Foundation
National Council of Turkish Women
47. “Extremism, militancy, terrorism, and dictatorship feed off one another, thriving in
an environment poverty, hopelessness and economic disparity among social classes.
This symbiotic relationship of extremism, militancy, terrorism, dictatorship, and
poverty is a direct threat to international and national stability and a clear danger to
world peace” – BB, Reconciliation
48. “Alleviating poverty is a fundamental responsibility of all Muslims, wherever they
live, as part of the basic principles of Islam. It would be far more Islamic in its true
sense to declare a jihad on poverty, illiteracy, hunger and poor governance” – BB,
Reconciliation
49. Disquieting Pattern
50. Rupture
51. Alaska Permanent Fund
52. Earmarked
53. Government Pension Fund of Norway
54. From the outset
55. Kazakhstan National Fund
56. Proposal of Creation of Muslim Investment Fund by BB in Reconciliation
57. Spurring
58. Offset
59. Douse
60. As of 2004, the Muslim World spent 0.2 pc of GDP on R&D while western nations
spent more than 5pc of their respective GDPs on R&D
61. Rekindle
62. Hyperventilate
63. Chasm
64. Decadent
65. Self-fulfilling
66. “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. If it’s believed, it becomes self-fulfilling because
perception often shapes reality” – BB, Reconciliation
67. Twofold/ Manifold
68. Culpability
69. Nefarious
70. “Before the problem can be solved, we need to recognize that it exists” – BB,
Reconciliation
71. Distrust/Mistrust
72. Appraisement of the situation
73. When all is said and done
74. Skim
75. Pervasive
76. Rudimentary
77. Acquiescence
78. Proposal to create “Association of Democratic Nations”
79. Community of Democratic Nations
80. Opprobrium
81. Calculus
82. Analogue
83. Erratic
84. Some Human Rights Groups:
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
UNIFEM
International League for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights
International Human Rights Association
Carter Center
International Helsinki Commission for Human Rights
World Organization Against Torture
Reporters Without Borders
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Committee to Protect Journalists
Doctors Without Borders
International Committee of the Red Cross
World Health Organization
Project Hope
85. Development Groups:
Oxfam International
Africare
World Bank
IMF
86. Proposal to amalgamate these into a “Civil Society International (CSI)”
87. Pew Research Center
88. Precipitously
89. Creed
90. The Djerejian Report “Changing Minds, Winning Peace” (2003)
91. Emulated
92. “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why? .... I dream of
things that never were and ask ‘why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw
93. Proposal of Creation of Reconciliation Corps modeled after Peace Corps
94. Hot-button issue
95. Put on the back burner
96. Riyadh Declaration
97. Fester
98. Adversaries
99. Composite/Quiet Diplomacy
100. Rallying Point
101. Daunting
102. “Much of what is recommended is somewhat out of the box. But staying within the
box has poverty, ignorance, hopelessness, violence and dictatorship to far too many
Muslims around the world. Staying within the box has set Islam and the West on a
dangerous and unnecessary collision course. It is time for new ideas. It is time for
creativity. It is time for bold commitment. And it is time for honesty, both among
people and between people. This is what I have tried to do in these pages. There has
been enough pain. It is time for reconciliation” – BB, Reconciliation