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Theology: Comparative Religion

american frustration

From the archive (2002): the raw anger of the Guantanamo moment — kept as a record, alongside the lesson that patient institutional work outperformed it.

Identity: Islamophobia

Documentary: Mulla Umer, Amir-ul-Momineen

From the archive (2002): watching an ARY documentary on Mullah Omar critically — the seed of what, institutionalised, becomes media literacy.

Knowledge: Media Literacy

Some penetrating thoughts

Some thoughts: 1. Islam is about living in peace with nature and with each other but it demands maintaining peace too eg by confronting oppression since there is no universal peace till there is oppression. 2. Capitalism has no cause and no programme, communism had a cause but very corrupt

Identity: Islamophobia

Bush is beaten at his own game

From the archive (2001): a polemic on ‘greatness’ as practised in 2001 — kept as a register of the moment, with the sober answer worked out since.

Archive: Pakistan

Dollars for Muslim lives

From the archive (2001): on aid offered to Pakistan at the start of the Afghan war — the permanent question of what assistance costs, and the case for economic self-reliance.

Identity: Islamophobia

Questions that beg answers

From the archive (2001): the questions of the weeks after 9/11, kept unedited — the discipline of public questioning, worth keeping and teaching.

Archive: Pakistan

Mr Musharaf's Interview

From the archive (2001): reading a Musharraf interview between the lines — close real-time analysis of official language, a skill worth teaching at scale.