Pakistan — embracing liberal arts on November 12, 2017A little while ago, while surfing the net I happened upon a television show that featured a Pakistani religious scholar. The gentleman in question is described as coming from the modernist tradition; as having a contemporary and transparent understanding of Islam. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he lives in self-exile today. During this particular broadcast, the scholar happened […]
Institutional discrimination in the US a pandemic on October 10, 2017The shocking images of a bloodied 69-year-old Vietnamese-American doctor being forcefully dragged off a domestic US flight, as the flight was reportedly overbooked, were still fresh in memory when I stumbled upon the video of a woman forcefully being dragged off a plane. I saw police pulling the woman from her seat and drag her […]
Institutional discrimination in the US a pandemic on October 10, 2017The shocking images of a bloodied 69-year-old Vietnamese-American doctor being forcefully dragged off a domestic US flight, as the flight was reportedly overbooked, were still fresh in memory when I stumbled upon the video of a woman forcefully being dragged off a plane. I saw police pulling the woman from her seat and drag her […]
Negotiating equal peace for Palestine on August 30, 2017On July 14 2017, two Israeli soldiers were killed by Arab Israeli attackers near the Al-Aqsa mosque.The Israeli government responded by setting up increased security measures which included cameras, metal detectors and banning young men from praying inside the mosque. This has led to violent clashes between the Israeli state and Palestinians in the past […]
Taking concrete steps for Kashmir on July 12, 2017 Farooq Dar was walking along a road on his way home when Indian military personnel surrounded him and later tied him up to the front of a military jeep. He was used as a human shield for a whole day as the military convoy went from village to village. Javiad Ahmad Ahanger, a young […]