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Maryam Sakeenah: April 2015
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Sunday, April 5, 2015. On Vogue's #MyChoice Video. A MATTER OF CHOICE. The question really is of individual choices and individual freedoms to make those choices. The idea of choice in the video is overweeningly individualistic- a choice of one’s own that refuses to take into consideration any factor outside of the self and its interest; a self-centred choice; a selfish choice. This message is disconcerting for reasons beyond the gender debate which the video is about. 8216;Pairs symbolize sharing, unity...
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Maryam Sakeenah: On Vogue's #MyChoice Video
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Sunday, April 5, 2015. On Vogue's #MyChoice Video. A MATTER OF CHOICE. The question really is of individual choices and individual freedoms to make those choices. The idea of choice in the video is overweeningly individualistic- a choice of one’s own that refuses to take into consideration any factor outside of the self and its interest; a self-centred choice; a selfish choice. This message is disconcerting for reasons beyond the gender debate which the video is about. 8216;Pairs symbolize sharing, unity...
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Maryam Sakeenah: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. On the Legalization of Homosexual Marriage in the United States. RAINBOW TINTED LENSES AND BLACK N WHITE UNIVERSES. Pakistan’s vibrant social media also reflected these divergent trends with a furious melee between those sporting rainbow coloured profiles and those invoking the wrath of God over the supporters of the new law. This presumption of moral superiority by the secular liberals at home and abroad is based on the idea that the conservative dissenters merely hold on with bl...
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Maryam Sakeenah: May 2014
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Friday, May 2, 2014. HAPPY MUSLIMS': to be or not to be. A CLASH OF FRENETIC HAPPINESSES. It all signifies the contradictions, polarities, sensitivities and contentions rife in the Muslim world- like a bubbling, gurgling, steaming cauldron. Live in dark times! Has not yet received. What times are these, in which. A conversation about trees is almost a crime. For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing! The prospect of declining life and time and the impending oblivion of death, and t...
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Maryam Sakeenah: Attacks on Churches and Mob Violence in Lahore
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Thursday, March 19, 2015. Attacks on Churches and Mob Violence in Lahore. TRANSCENDING THE US VERSUS THEM PARADIGM. My parents chose to send me to a Christian missionary school- a decision I have always been grateful to them for. The Convent’s ‘Character Building’ programme instilled in me values which, owing to the essential kinship of the Abrahamic faiths, facilitated my appreciation and practice of my own faith as a Muslim later in life. Said my illiterate Christian kitchen helper- (translation my own).
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Maryam Sakeenah: March 2015
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Thursday, March 19, 2015. Attacks on Churches and Mob Violence in Lahore. TRANSCENDING THE US VERSUS THEM PARADIGM. My parents chose to send me to a Christian missionary school- a decision I have always been grateful to them for. The Convent’s ‘Character Building’ programme instilled in me values which, owing to the essential kinship of the Abrahamic faiths, facilitated my appreciation and practice of my own faith as a Muslim later in life. Said my illiterate Christian kitchen helper- (translation my own).
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Maryam Sakeenah: August 2013
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Still, I Rise: Reflections on the Massacres in Egypt. In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the sky containing great stars. And by the Promised Day. And [by] the witness and what is witnessed, Woe to the makers of the pit (of fire)! Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things. Those who believe and do good works, theirs will be Gardens underneath which rivers flow. That is the Great Success. Hope is a stubbor...
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Maryam Sakeenah: June 2014
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Saturday, June 14, 2014. THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. THE SHARIAH’S LOST SOUL. And yet, crazy as this sounds, the demand for Shariah is not just understandable and legitimate but also an aspiration shared by an overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide. The PEW Research Centre’s 2013 survey. Invoking religion and using religious rhetoric gives a religious colour to the violent, attention-seeking tactics used by these groups. Hence Islam is perceived as either intrinsically violent or...
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Maryam Sakeenah: April 2014
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Friday, April 25, 2014. Too soon gone,. While I, my puerile human self. Dreamt of a welcome. Strewing rosebuds along your untrodden path. A Fall before Springtime. And I could not say goodbye. Helpless, my hands tied. I saw you taken away;. Bereft, I saw you. Ripped from my sore, bleeding flesh. And I learnt of my crippling helplessness,. A mortal weakness I could not surmount-. And yet, not quite. For I feel the Indissoluble Bond. Decreed by an Immortal Word: 'Be! We mourn but the rotting flesh. 1 Intro...
