Knowledge: Media Literacy

Malcolm X knew Islam's History of Slavery, not Racism

An interesting article appeared in the Telegraph, titled "The conversion to Islam of Malcolm X is the wrong model for young black men [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11425643/The-conversion-to-Islam-of-Malcolm-X-is-the-wrong-model-for-young-black-men.html] ." Although the author, David Edward, cites historical events, he makes a serious error that fatally undermines

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.

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.

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.

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

Identity: Islamophobia

Muddled Cameron Swerves Hard Right

From the archive (2011): Cameron’s ‘muscular liberalism’ — values rhetoric as exclusion, answered since less by argument than by civic capability.

Theology: Eschatology

The Arrivals - Documentary or Entertainment?

From the archive (2011): ‘The Arrivals’ dissected — source criticism taught from within the community, a skill now survival-grade.

Archive: Iraq

A Shocking End to an Independent Press

From the archive (2007): the Moyers indictment of pre-war journalism — institutional failure inside the press, and the case for owning media capability.

Knowledge: Media Literacy

Call That Humiliation? Notes By a Monty Python Veteran

From the archive (2007): Terry Jones’ satire on the captured sailors affair — when comedy did the work that institutions of accountability had stopped doing.

Archive: Iraq

Ahmedinejad, irrational?

From the archive (2006): the contrarian case that Iran won the Iraq war — independent analysis against the consensus of the day, kept as a case study in thinking for oneself.

Identity: Islamophobia

Denmark Incident: the sinister conclusions

From the archive (2006): the cartoons affair and the selective breaking of taboos — an asymmetry now running at machine speed, answerable only institutionally.

Knowledge: Media Literacy

Missing: 50 million Indian girls (IHT)

Swami Agnivesh, Rama Mani and Angelika KÃ¶ster-Lossack International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2005 ROHTAK, India In recent years, the world has been shocked by the Taliban’s ruthless suppression of women in Afghanistan, the practice of female genital mutilation in parts of Africa and the abuse of female

Institutions: Governance

Illegal suppression of black vote by Bush's party in America

From the archive (2004): vote suppression as administrative friction — a recurring mechanism, answered by organisation: drives, legal funds, observers.

Archive: Iraq

Subject IQ Test on international politics

From the archive (2003): the pre-Iraq-war ‘IQ test’ — an artefact of information scarcity, from before the problem inverted into flood.

Identity: Dialogue

Open Letter in Response to Salman Rushdie

From the archive (2002): answering Rushdie with pity, not outrage — measured response as the dividend of scholarly confidence.

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

Archive: Afghanistan

Usama bin Laden's statement on Nov. 3, 2001

From the archive (2001): a primary-source translation published so readers could judge the words themselves — archival practice before it was standard.

Archive: Iraq

Can we allow the West to define Islam?

From the archive (2001): who gets to define Islam? The question has sharpened — the definers now include AI systems, and the answer is institutional presence.

Archive: Afghanistan

AlJazeera - US planes attack civilians and fleeing refugees

From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on air strikes and fleeing refugees — real-time documentation from a translation series this site ran during the Afghan war.

Archive: Afghanistan

AlJazeera - UN confirms hospital casualties - 93 more casualties

From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan — part of an early translation series documenting what larger outlets did not.

Archive: Pakistan

AlJazeera: Pakistan keeps borders closed to thousands

From the archive (2001): a translated AlJazeera dispatch on Afghan refugees at the Pakistani border — early citizen translation filling a reporting gap, years before social media.

Archive: Afghanistan

Spare Afghanistan from U.S. ''Nation-building''

From the archive (2001): against imposed nation-building in Afghanistan, written before the project began — institutions are grown from within, not installed.