tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67428502026-09-11T07:36:09.180-07:00iFaqeer's Blog<a href="http://blog.ifaqeer.com/p/about-me.html">Taking the guise of the poor, the dervishes, we, O <i>Ghalib</i>,<br>
Watch the spectacle of the blessed; of power and pelf<br></a>iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.comBlogger631125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-38163021933445014632016-06-08T15:31:00.000-07:002016-06-21T16:59:52.027-07:00Chronicles of the Camps: 2017
It's been a while since I put out an update on writing. It's been a bit tough the last free years and a challenge figuring out what I want to do next. One idea is to actually write in a more formal and structured way. And it seems Medium.com is a platform worth looking at.
So. With so much in the air about minorities, Muslims, deportations, a lot of our minds turn to internment--or, to use iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-63328097133734566142015-09-23T17:46:00.002-07:002015-09-23T17:51:28.628-07:00Ben Carson, a Muslim President, Sharia Law and the US Consitution
Wrote the following on a thread where a retired, very religious tech writer friend (a Christian that has problems with the Trinity, btw) had tagged me for a response:
On the question raised by Ben Carson, the correct answer remains that given by Colin Powell (a Republican, it should be pointed out) or the one given by a Founding Father (that I am still looking for an exact reference for; iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-77721314239376669752015-09-10T14:18:00.002-07:002015-09-10T14:18:23.346-07:00Syrian Refugees and the "Wealthy Gulf State" Question(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Really, people? You want the rich monarchies and The Establishment of Western countries to be the ones to helpiFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-5380029845042972522015-07-29T15:16:00.000-07:002015-07-29T15:16:07.697-07:00It takes an African
Federal Government College, Sokoto student
c.1983
Been reconnecting with school chums from back in Nigeria. And I have to say; it's been gratifying and, well, completing in a way. I will say more about the experience, but something came up in discussions around alumni networking that I am surprised I don't seem to have said on this blog before. And part of the experience overlaps with the iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-46742627342068616192015-07-17T17:00:00.000-07:002015-07-17T17:00:11.392-07:00Inclusive Eid
The rainbow has belonged in our affairs all along
I posted this on a couple of progressive and radical Muslim groups on social media, and thought it belonged here, too:To all our fellow Muslims feeling like they don't have a congregation, a community that really owns them on a day like this: THIS is your congregation; THIS is your community ; THIS is your ummah. You are our community; you areiFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-68429177426408137642015-07-17T12:07:00.001-07:002015-07-17T12:36:34.051-07:00Eid ul Fitr 2015(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));"Haza Eiduna"—"This is our festival." Taqabbalallâhu minnâ wa minkum. &iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-26288086049942391502015-05-28T14:27:00.000-07:002015-05-28T18:29:13.731-07:00Hope—vs The Lack Thereof
This bears capturing:
@mkatju @beenasarwar @latimes I am not swayed by your hopelessness. I am moved by my beliefs. Thank you for sharing your thoughts though
— Jibran Nasir (@MJibranNasir) May 28, 2015
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-9661534229404091352015-05-04T10:48:00.000-07:002015-05-28T14:27:32.223-07:00Respect what others adore—even the Flying Spaghetti Monster(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));As a Muslim, I have always considered myself under clear directives from The Prophet himself not to diss iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-50392098514798679022015-04-21T12:49:00.001-07:002015-04-21T13:45:03.174-07:00An Emigrant's Reasons
Rangers (Pakistan's paramilitary
Border Security Force) warn
Karachiites to carry
computerised ID cards at all times
Immigrants from the #ThirdWorld and those "at home" often agonize about why we left. People from Karachi, we often observe in Silicon Valley and other places, often do not move back home--even less so than, say Lahorewallas. See, for example the poem"Jo thha kya thhora iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-32710640913353533672015-04-08T12:04:00.000-07:002015-04-08T12:04:35.893-07:00ISI Has LUMS Balochistan Panel Cancelled[View the story "ISI Has LUMS Balochistan Panel Cancelled" on Storify]iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-68526196295416061332014-12-26T14:35:00.003-08:002014-12-26T14:35:59.239-08:00@Khawer_Khan on #Peshawar, #Oakland, and Beyond
History IS the haunting of our nightmares. Lets not forget who created these monsters. Various imperialist powers representing global Capital and the comprador Pakistani state. These monsters are not some organic expression of our people struggling in some distorted way for freedom. This is literally a Frankenstein's monster gone amok. Arms from the Pakistani state, a heart and brain from iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-59816672680237362172014-12-23T12:11:00.001-08:002014-12-23T12:11:01.702-08:00@ARRrafiq on Fighting Back in Pakistan
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Post by Abdulrahman Rafiq.
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-80940225693232435352014-12-23T11:19:00.000-08:002014-12-23T11:19:01.187-08:00Ideology of #Pakistan in Four Quotations
"Democracy is not just a new thing we are learning," said Jinnah Saahab to American journalist Margaret Bourke-White, "[o]ur Islamic ideas have been based on democracy and social justice since the thirteenth century."
"... we have proved it to the world more than once. We established Pakistan because of our passion for what we call the Islamic way of life. This is no narrow sectarian, or iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-21849675985451088122014-12-20T13:16:00.002-08:002014-12-20T13:21:44.486-08:00#Christmas Carols in #Karachi for #PeshawarThis is the Pakistan we all want; it takes a tragedy to bring it together. But don't be fooled it exists and has existed all along in our hearts.
#Christmas Carols by 300 children of Archdiocese of #karachi #Pakistan Carnival of Carols 2014 dedicated to #Peshawar pic.twitter.com/L0z1XNqRI1
— norbalm ɯןɐqɹou ™ (@norbalm) December 20, 2014
Here's the video:
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[View the story "#Pakistan Fights Back: The People Must Act" on Storify]
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-70941091923401775272014-12-19T12:25:00.002-08:002014-12-19T12:25:49.887-08:00#PeshawarAttack: @CAIRNational, @ISNAhq, @ICNA Round-Up[View the story "#PeshawarAttack: @CAIR, @ISNAhq, @ICNA Roundup" on Storify]iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-62420208889566369482014-12-16T13:09:00.000-08:002014-12-16T13:09:14.690-08:00#2016: @JebBush Just Announced—on Facebook
[View the story "#2016: @JebBush Just Announced—on Facebook" on Storify]
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-30356138013636454152014-12-16T10:45:00.002-08:002014-12-16T10:45:46.825-08:00#PeshawarAttack: Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Delhi's Khudai Khidmatgar (Storify)
[View the story "Imran Khan on #PeshawarAttack" on Storify]
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-58079110405537489862014-11-18T17:00:00.000-08:002014-11-18T19:07:12.277-08:00Qadri and Imran--A Match That Just Could Not Be?
Graphic from Saach.tv
The headlines say
"Tahirul Qadri ends alliance with Imran Khan's party"
and
Qadri parts ways with Imran Khan
and he might have said this more strongly this time, saying things like
“Those who are part of status quo and involved in corruption could not become our allies”.
But despite the "cousinly" coordination they might have had—maybe encouraged by the Third UmpiresiFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-15592412611071344082014-11-17T12:58:00.002-08:002014-11-18T19:13:19.012-08:00Haroon Moghul (@hsmoghul) on the Islamic State and the 7th Century Canard:
Haroon Moghul; Twitter
Profile Photo
Whenever anyone takes the line that neo-purist fanatics of any ilk are "taking us back to the 7th--or 13th--century", I would like them to read this rather intellectual piece from Haroon Moghul. It's from back in June 2014, when the IS declared itself a Caliphate, but it's a good introduction.
There is a new declared Islamic State–and Caliph–what does iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-25868220983383556172014-11-14T20:34:00.000-08:002014-11-15T09:03:33.655-08:00"The Means of Information": Freedom of the Press and Control of Social
Media
Freedom is guaranteed only tothose who own a (Word)Press?
One of the most relevant--and trenchant--things I have heard on this topic is the quote:
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
That quote is from an older age, and I feel that in this day, age, and point in our technological evolution, you should read that with "media" instead of the first "press" andiFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-21953088807703881032014-11-14T14:09:00.000-08:002014-11-14T14:09:02.270-08:00Friday, Juma, Prayers at the Washington National Cathedral (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
Post by Sabahat Ashraf.
iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-38142061244884004222014-07-10T18:41:00.001-07:002014-07-12T12:11:40.041-07:00APEX Express Radio Report on Taking on the Pakistan Taliban: Context and Prospects
Filed a radio report recently for APEX Express, a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders that airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM in the San Francisco Bay Area. Starts about exactly 23 minutes into this (with a pashto song):
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/104388
Here's a direct link to the audio file for the iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-55402478767630677592014-06-30T16:04:00.001-07:002014-07-01T16:47:13.766-07:00Mr Modi, Let's End Colonialism in India—and Elsewhere
For SF Pride this year, Trikone (www.trikone.org), the oldest South Asian LGBTQ organization in the world, and ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, a San Francisco Bay Area group working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities, have teamed up to put out a press release calling on India's new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi of the BJP, to "End 377"iFaqeerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11739713117247515590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742850.post-84642851330407737962014-06-27T14:44:00.002-07:002014-06-27T14:44:38.152-07:00Why "dan Boko"?
Several friends have asked why my Facebook name currently says "Dan Boko" (and my Twitter name is "S. danBoko Ashraf". Here's the original Facebook status that I put up when I switched:
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