2011 - QeRN

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.

Identity: Diaspora

Muslim Engagement at the Community Level in UK

From the archive (2011): an East London lament about declining community influence — and the plain answer: influence is organised, not lamented into existence.

Identity: Diaspora

The Question of Islam and Democracy

Dr. Mohamed Elmasry's Arab Spring-era essay on Islam and democracy — reread in 2026, when the question has become whether communities can build the institutions democracy requires.

Institutions: International Order

The Myth of Moderation

The Washington Post published a poll-induced barely comprehensible laundry list of what a ‘moderate’ Muslim should be [http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2011/02/will_the_real_moderate_muslims_please_stand_up.html] . Let us pick it apart one by one. With apologies to the author of the said

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Shariah Threat to America

From the archive (2011): the ‘Shariah threat’ panic dissected — a manufactured-panic playbook since reused, and the institutional defence that transfers.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Arabia Rising

A lot has been written on the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and now Libya and Bahrain seem to be going the same way. Here at Muslim Identity, we support and promote self-determination with means and goals that are geared to the 21st century and not copied over from the

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: Jurisprudence

Murderer or Hero?

From the archive (2011): Pakistan divided over a celebrated killing — a fracture only trusted courts, schools, and scholarship can repair.

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: Palestine

Top 10 Events of the Decade Affecting Muslim Identity

From the archive (2011): the decade’s top events for Muslim identity — almost all things done to Muslims; the next list must be things Muslims built.