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Minor(ity) Issues
This post is for those Pakistanis who squirm just a little bit when they sign that statement on their passport forms, for those who felt even mildly saddened on May 28, 2010, for those who know an Ahmadi and on … Continue reading
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Condemn your Terrah!
Did you condemn your Moozy terror today? Muslims are [...] seen as dispensable because they can be marginalized at any time as not really part of ‘us’; they are always required to perform and thereby prove their loyalty– either by … Continue reading
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Terrifying Muslims – scraps
So, I reviewed Junaid Rana’s book Terrifying Muslims for Dawn Books and Authors. You can read the review here. Following is the writing that happened before the writing, or what didn’t make the cut. *** In everyday conversations racism is taken … Continue reading
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Reads of 2012
In no particular order: George M. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History Ashis Nandy, Exiled at Home: Comprising At the Edge of Psychology, The Intimate Enemy and Creating a Nationality. Read The Intimate Enemy here. Patrick Griffin, American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier Tram … Continue reading
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Islamophobia in the US
My review of Stephen Sheehi’s Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims was published in Dawn Books. Writer’s cut of this essay is at Chapati Mystery.
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Moslem Rageology
[Here is the link (PDF) to my review of Irfan Husain's Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West for The Sunday Guardian. A special thanks to the wise Panda for his essay "Taking the Place of Martyrs: Afghans and Arabs Under the Banner of … Continue reading
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Reading: Talal Asad on “Islam,” Europe, and the civilizational shtick
An excerpt from “Europe Against Islam” (April, 1997): “If religion is often thought of as a major danger, “Islam” is often represented as a uniquely intractable instance of active religion in the modern world. In the modern world “religion”has-or at … Continue reading
Imperialism, Theirs and Ours
Below is a conversation about imperialism, US and Pakistani, and my note about it. While it is commendable that there is an upcoming documentary (The Invisible War) to highlight the sexual abuse female US soldiers suffer >> Share on Facebook … Continue reading
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Archipelago of Injustices
Below is the writer’s cut of my review of Alia Malek’s Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice for Dawn (link). *** On March 21, 2012, Shaima Alawadi, a 32 year old … Continue reading
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Quorum
They used to visit in summer . . . boiling, hot summers. My cousin, my brother, and I would raise hell. In our quieter moments we played Ludo. Meals were served on big dastarkhwans with our families sitting around it on … Continue reading
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