May 2014
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“our prayers were answered when the French came”
Selects striking lines from young people, including Pakistani girls and a child in Mali, on girls’ education, extremist violence and the French intervention in Timbuktu, with the poster’s bracketed comments.
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Geopolitics
Boko Haramis and their ilk
A reworked piece written for Viewpoint, placing Boko Haram’s demand for ‘pure Islam’ in northern Nigeria’s history of Islamicate states, especially the Sokoto Caliphate and its British-era afterlife, and the…
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Society
How to crush a woman (use a woman-rock)
Angrily introduces a reproduced piece on how columnist Maureen Dowd, in the poster’s reading, helped destroy Monica Lewinsky’s reputation in 1998 and later benefited from the story, asking how a…
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Politics
America ka matlab kya? (Christians are #1)
The poster, long an admirer of America’s church-state separation, argues that a recent Supreme Court ruling on official prayers favours Christianity and puts other faiths, including Hindu Americans, in a…
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Society
“I reached the village everything was finished”
On the killing of 36 people, mostly women and children, in Assam, the poster says the Bodoland People’s Front, allied with the Congress government, is accused by victims, and that…
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The 51st state
Reacting to an FBI agent’s presence in Pakistan without a government invitation, the poster jokes that Pakistan is America’s 51st state and argues that Washington should explain, with possible reasons…
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Rashid Rahman Khan
A Dawn report that human rights lawyer Rashid Rehman Khan, who defended a blasphemy accused, was shot dead in Multan. The poster says even defending such a client now seems…
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Boko Haram burns down Gamboru Ngala
A report that Boko Haram razed the Nigerian border town of Gamboru Ngala, killing hundreds. The poster says it is unclear what can be done and expects any foreign intervention…
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Geopolitics
The knife attacks in (Chinese) Kashmir
The poster links knife attacks in China to Uyghur militancy, arguing that Beijing now expects Pakistan to restrain jihadists, a nearly impossible task, since Islamists see no difference between Kashmir…
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Politics
Patience Jonathan is (only a lesser) evil
The poster condemns Nigeria’s first lady, Patience Jonathan, who reportedly shouted down women protesting the Chibok kidnappings and ordered arrests of protest leaders, which her office denied. It argues elites…
