Author: Arshia Malik

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Demonisation as a tool of disinformation

As India celebrates its 74th Republic Day, the disinformation campaign in the asymmetric warfare against the Republic of India also turns a few decades old now. Disinformation refers to false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive people. The purpose of disinformation is often to influence public opinion, or to disrupt the normal […]

Kashmir’s geopolitical reality of dependence

September 2014 proved how much the Valley depends on aid for recurring natural and man-made environmental disasters and how much it needs to see where its future lies

The Four Elements of Ideological Recruitment

Maajid Nawaz describes the four elements of ideological recruitment as grievance narrative, identity crisis, charismatic recruitment and ideological dogma

What is holding Indian Muslim community back

The opportunist intellectuals within the Indian Muslim community are holding them back

Monotheism’s fear of educated women

Monotheistic cultures can’t handle educated women or literate women who eventually start thinking independently and making their own decisions, living lives on their own terms.

Is Islamic exceptionalism a reality Indians need to keep in mind?

Is the American/Indian press downplaying the seditious threat of homegrown Islamist radicalism and the influence of Islamists' propaganda arm on their/our governmental policies?

Islamic values & Muslim women in politics of India

The statement of the Shahi Imam of Ahmadabad’s Jama Masjid Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui in Gujarat has exposed the general religious attitude of the ummah towards Muslim women in the political sphere. The usual suspects can be expected to come up with apologia or maintain a strategic silence since this controversial statement doesn’t correspond with the […]

Denial hurts Muslims too

Denial is at the core of human behaviour. In the psychology of human behaviour, denialism is a person’s choice to deny reality to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Uncomfortable truths can be very hard to face and especially to be held responsible for such uncomfortable truths by virtue of belonging to that community can be […]

Bringing Up Muslim Sons

I heard Dr Rizwan Ahmed, a lawyer and TV debater as his Twitter bio says, suggesting on a talk show that Hindu girls/women need to be told to keep away from Muslim boys because Muslim boys are dangerous. I disagree with this statement because I don’t think this is a piece of realistic or practical […]

How Freethinking In Islam Is Suppressed: Part 2

The artificial doctrines belted from the pulpits every week are sweeping away the legacy of Islam’s freethinkers, especially at a time when it is needed the most with sectarian warfare within Islam getting bloodier by the year.

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