Category: Politics and Islam
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The Illusion of Control
The very definition of war has changed over the course of history. Today, many wars are unmanned with no foreign element on your soil. There is an intense digital component to today’s warfare—the speedy spread of information, the even faster propagation of misinformation, the real keyboard warriors versus the bots. People of past wars would…
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Chosen for Bigger Things
The idea of philosophy didn’t make sense to me growing up, why would someone’s profession simply of thinking about things. With age, more concrete aspects of philosophy came into view—logic, for instance. My mathematical mind could make peace with that. But the notion of being a thinker, as a vocation, still felt elusive. Until, without…
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Empire’s Desperate Chokehold
People don’t become zealous without good reason. Fanaticism is born of years of deprivation, years of rights being systematically trampled, and years of watching others live comfortable lives while being indoctrinated to believe they are lesser beings. The colonial projects spanning centuries across the world have been demonstrations of unadulterated raw power concentrated in the…
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Challenging Divine Sovereignty
To commit murder is calamitous, regardless of the reason. I assume it would kill a part of you simultaneously. Your heart probably. Maybe your conscience. It begins to darken your soul. When you get used to it, God forbid, the stabs at your heart punctures with less force each time. The dying of your conscience…
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Climbing with Conscience
Man-made systems are inherently flawed. They rely on the insight of flawed beings. So questioning non-divine rules is not only acceptable, but in my opinion the right course of action in many cases. The state of global politics and warfare today have proven that so many systems that the world has comfortably relied upon for…
Farheen Anwar 