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Third Annual QeRN Muslim Identity Award – 2012

From the archive (2013): the third QeRN award, to Loonwatch — recognising patient documentation over viral outrage; method survives.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Guess who is Progressive on Women? Vatican or Al-Azhar?

From the archive (2013): Al-Azhar versus the Vatican on women’s rights — checking institutions against their reputations, empirically.

Identity: Islamophobia

Academics Finally Take Note of Islamophobia

[http://www.qern.org/en/academics-finally-take-note-of-islamophobia/islamophobia-journal-spring2012/] For a number of years, we have been taking academics to task for not doing enough to tackle rising Islamophobia. Academic research makes it way into public policy sooner or later, and a certain paralysis had descended upon the academic community after the

Theology: Comparative Religion

Muslims: Treat Christmas with Due Respect

From the archive (2012): treating Christmas with due respect, grounded in the Quran’s regard for Jesus — counsel that needs only confidence, not updating.

Institutions: Civil Society

Reprieve, Yunus Rahmatullah, and Habeas Corpus

From the archive (2012): Reprieve on Yunus Rahmatullah and habeas corpus — the institutional bedrock that a person held must be produced before a court.

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Veil & Islam

From the archive (2012): a future Chief Justice tests a compulsory-veil resolution against text and law — institutional rigour where slogans were offered.

Archive: Iraq

The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah

From the archive (2012): Fallujah’s under-examined health legacy — the stories that outlast attention, and the institutions needed to follow them.

Archive: Pakistan

Feminism is the Feeling of Being Safe - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

From the archive (2012): Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar — a case study in what a society gains when it owns the means of telling its own stories.

Identity: Diaspora

What Happened to Canada?

From the archive (2012): Chris Hedges asks what happened to Canada — a change that was not a mood but policy moving through institutions.

Identity: Diaspora

Muslim Identity in Britain: Sadiq Khan MP on British Museum Hajj Exhibition

adapted from London Evening Standard, January 26, 2012 While the capital is home to an estimated 40 per cent of the UK’s Muslim population, there are still many mysteries surrounding the faith that I follow. For I was born and raised a London Muslim. I attended mosques and madrassas

Identity: Community

Second Annual QeRN Muslim Identity Award - 2011

From the archive (2012): QeRN’s second Muslim Identity Award — an early instinct to recognise builders over talkers, now this site’s whole programme.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Robert Fisk: Bankers are the dictators of the West

Robert Fisk, Saturday, 10 December 2011 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-bankers-are-the-dictators-of-the-west-6275084.html# Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so

Archive: Pakistan

Pakistan Turns the Corner without War or Revolution

From the archive (2011): Pakistan changing course through elections and courts — a data point for the thesis that working institutions are the whole story.

Archive: Palestine

Obama on the Wrong Side of History on Palestine

From the archive (2011): the Palestine UN bid and the veto — multilateral institutions seen from the Global South, and the case for building standing in them.

Institutions: Governance

Lying Culture Disgraces US Empire

From the archive (2011): credibility and solvency decay together — and the remedy is boring: accounts, audits, accountability.

Knowledge: Media Literacy

The Stream on Aljazeera English

From the archive (2011): QeRN on Al Jazeera’s The Stream — the discipline of showing up wherever the conversation is held.

Identity: Islamophobia

Anti-Muslim News Corp Comeuppance

From the archive (2011): News Corp’s hacking scandal after years of anti-Muslim output — institutions are checked only by comparable institutional power.

Identity: Dialogue

Exploring the True Unity of Islam in a Global World

From the archive (2011): Islam’s unity as lived practice, not slogan — an argument that now needs shared institutions to become operational.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Lessons from Greek Financial Woes

From the archive (2011): Greece’s lessons — debt is sovereignty on a schedule; institutions that can’t collect can’t protect. True for communities too.

Theology: Eschatology

Summary of Common Narratives

From the archive (2011): comparative eschatology across the Abrahamic traditions — patient, source-based work of the kind the AI era needs more of.

Archive: Pakistan

Jamaat Islami's Welcome Statement

From the archive (2011): judging a religious-political party by fiscal substance, not slogans — a habit worth generalising.

Archive: Pakistan

Rapidly Changing Al-Qaeda Endgame in Pakistan

From the archive (2011): on the killing of Saleem Shahzad — what reporting cost in Pakistan, and why journalism survives only where institutions protect it.

Archive: Pakistan

Pakistan Tug-of-War: For-sale Liberals vs Myopic Fanatics

From the archive (2011): Pakistan between for-sale liberals and myopic fanatics — both read as symptoms of missing institutions.

Theology: Quran & Hadith

Takfeer - the Saturated Business Model

Also published on Chowk [http://www.chowk.com/Religion/Islam/Takfeer-The-Saturated-Business-Model] by Akber Choudhry As Irish bombs are in the media today, instead of AlQaeda bombs, and Muslims are not on the defensive for one whole day, maybe we can sneak in the opportunity about the biggest problem that ails

Archive: Pakistan

Reality Check about Christians in Pakistan

From the archive (2011): a reality check on Christians in Pakistan — against caricature in both directions, the harder kind of honesty.