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Are You Happy To See Me Or Is That A Minaret In Your Lederhosen?
The decision is stupid, disgraceful and racist. I have expressed my views on it in an earlier post called Welcome To The Islamic Republic of Switzerland Or Do You Want Your Burqa In Black Or Blue? Tod… more →
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Are You Happy To See Me Or Is That A Minaret In Your Lederhosen?
arafiqui wrote 1 week ago: The decision is stupid, disgraceful and racist. I have expressed my views on it in an earlier post c … more →
'Going Muslim' At Fort Hood Or How Rabid Simplicities Masquerading As Insight Just Sell More Magazines
arafiqui wrote 2 weeks ago: UPDATE: A recent article in The Boston Review, titled God, The Army & PTSD by Tara McKelvey rais … more →
Saying 'Fuck Off' In Muslim And Why I Say It So Often!
arafiqui wrote 3 weeks ago: I was days away from penning a piece about how we should neither ask or give ‘collectivist … more →
Who Was That Busker You Gave 50c To? The Same I Paid $100 To See The Night Before!
arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL … more →
Where The Head Spun: November 13th 2009
arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: A wide range of issues came across recently and though I would love to wax lyrical about all of them … more →
Offering Silence To The Oppressed Or How Photography Can Become A Weapon Of Repression
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arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: An exhibition called ‘Beware The Cost Of War’ recently opened in London. Reading about i … more →
Pakistan In A Nutshell Or Examples in Failures Of The Imagination
arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Pakistan Receives First of 18 Lockheed F-18C Fighter/Bombers for which it paid nearly $2,000,000,000 … more →
Photo Projects I Like: Jörg Brüggemann's "Same Same But Different"
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arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: Backpackers are mildly delusional. I mean that in the most serious way. They travel to some of the m … more →
The Hindus Live In Small And Dark Homes Or Educating Our Child Soldiers
arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: The minds of children are usually shut inside prison houses, so that they become incapable of unders … more →
The New India? Or How It Became Just Like Everyone Else!
arafiqui wrote 2 months ago: I came across this piece in the recent issue of Granta and it made for depressing reading. Capital G … more →
Losing My Religion To Tomorrow's Headlines
arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: Via Sepia Mutiny: This is RizMC … more →
Realities, Myths, Fantasies & Paranoias: The Muslims - Get To Know Them Series
arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: Professor Yoginder Sikand recently posted an extensive review of Abdelwahab El-Affendi’s Who N … more →
Great Moments In Film History: The Bat Mitzvah Singer, Starsky & Hutch
arafiqui wrote 5 months ago: The singer is Dan Finnerty, and the scene is from the otherwise lame movie re-make of the tv series … more →
A Kinda/Sorta Conversation With Magnum's Peter Marlow
arafiqui wrote 6 months ago: No I have actually never had a conversation with the great Peter Marlow. I have never even met him. … more →
How The Israeli Arms Industry Learned To Dance With Bollywood.
arafiqui wrote 9 months ago: Rafael is an Israeli arms manufacturer and here is their attempt to convince ‘feminine’ … more →
An Unnecessary Education
arafiqui wrote 9 months ago: One of first things my father exclaimed when I returned from the USA with an engineering degree in h … more →
Dialogue Between Bigots: Part VI of VI
arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is the final installment of the interview, part VI, of ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ ED … more →
Dialogue Between Bigots: Part V of VI
arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is part V of the interview ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ AR: I think you are being very … more →
Dialogue Between Bigots; Part IV of VI
arafiqui wrote 12 months ago: This is Part IV of the interview ‘Dialogue Between Bigots’ EDITOR: Whereas I agree with … more →
