Tag Archives: Islam

The Spotlight Of Humanity Or How We Are Told To Look Only Where They Tell Us To Look

It is probably one of the most blatant uses of photography as propaganda that I have seen in a long time. And I am glad for it because it reveals explicitly how easily images can be put to the service of an agenda of power and entrenched interests. And how easily photographs can mislead if […]

July 30, 2010 – 10:00 am | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Spotlight Of Humanity Or How We Are Told To Look Only Where They Tell Us To Look

‘Going Muslim’ At Fort Hood Or How Rabid Simplicities Masquerading As Insight Just Sell More Magazines

It did not take long for overtly racist explanations to be offered. Before facts come fantasy, and before truth comes tabloid opinions masquerading as insight. And it arrived not in some radical, fringe magazine but in the pages of the international magazine Forbes by one of their regular contributors. (I of course ignore the determined […]

December 2, 2009 – 8:55 am | By arafiqui | Posted in Musings On Confusions | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on ‘Going Muslim’ At Fort Hood Or How Rabid Simplicities Masquerading As Insight Just Sell More Magazines

The Most Dangerous Nation

The obsession with things ‘Islamic fundamentalist’ and ‘Al Qaeda” has been turned into a veritable multi-billion dollar industry and this despite the very little concrete and independently verified evidence to suppor the many claims of underground ‘Islamic/Al Qaeda’ cells and networks.

March 5, 2009 – 1:52 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in Pakistan | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Most Dangerous Nation