Youth and the issues they face today

A laudable and much needed service for our communities. For details see Muslim Youth Helpline’s website.

See another noteworthy initiative here: Children’s Islamic Library
Hope other communities can take inspiration from the above two projects. For the library project, I think a further challenge would to be incorporate general educational and recreational material, especially considering the dearth [...]

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On Rumors

Here is another interesting article from Psychology Today. This is the first time I have come across with this magazine. The articles in it seem to be of mixed quality. Especially, I have problem with how they essentialize males and females – their desires, attitudes, behavior – without giving consideration to the variations within and [...]

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Consumption as a Lifestyle

While reading the article, Today’s Consumption in Egypt by Mona Abaza, I could not help but notice again and again the parallels between the changes that have already happened in Egypt more than a decade ago and the rapid social changes happening in Pakistan today. Thanks, in part, to the neo-liberal economic reforms and opening [...]

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MATERIALISM AS ZEITGEIST

What is this ‘Matrix’, this ‘Hegemony’ (or ‘dominance without hegemony,’ if you prefer), this ‘Totalizing System’ of Materialism that I refer to in my previous posts?
The phenomenon of Materialism that I have in mind is the resultant of a particular historical development in the West, which is generally referred to as ‘Modernity‘. Materialism is one [...]

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Materialism: To Put It Simply

I wanted to share a few points about what I am referring to as ‘materialism’ in these posts. These points should clarify the basis of my arguments.
Let me start with ‘what it is not’. By materialism do I mean a school of philosophy that denies the existence of God? This is the theological sense of [...]

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