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Parallels between an ailing IBM and an ailing Islam

Excerpt from Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis Gerstner, the CEO who saved IBM. Read Watson, insert Muhammad. Read dress code, think hijab (in terms of hijab being a tool for modesty). Read codify, think Quran an…
I am because you are

(and my September 11th) It's been a good day - Major Purcell gave an entertaining explanation as to why why the Lt Cols in the cohort may refer to him by a call sign, I got commissioned to interview Professor Vali Nasr,…
High value excerpts from Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat

Not all that's said in this book is an intelligent narrative or concept, there is some stupidity, such as this gem, '"Son, when a Muslim grows up in India and he sees a man living in a big mansion high on a hill, he say…
Pakistan's intelligence agency and army are on the Taliban's side

Reading Ahmed Rashid's 'Descent into Chaos' and on the ground reports from Pakistan like the one below, it appears that Pakistan's army and intelligence agency, the ISI, are playing a double game, spending more effort in…
Al Qaeda won

According to this narrative, not an uncommon one, al Qaeda succeeded in precipitating the economic meltdown and changing the world order by attacking the World Trade Center: 'The [current economic] crisis was slow in co…
Endogeneity/Reflexivity/Circularity/Self-prophesising

We affect our circumstances more than we appreciate. Women do it in their affection for men, speculators affect market fundamentals (no shit!) and name callers affect those who they call names, as well as themselves, act…
Translating our multiple selves

'And so there lay my political dilemma: a clash of cultures. Being a good Pakistani son, while remaining an accepted and integrated citizen in the angraiz culture, is like engineering peace between Hitler's Germany and C…
A man who understands

the anger of young ethnic men. 'We were always playing on the white man's court, Ray had told me, by the white man's rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher, or Kurt, wanted to spit in your face, he could, b…
Excerpts from Karen Armstrong's The Bible - The Biography

'In a study of modern Jewish movements, the eminent scholar Haym Soloveitchik argues that the transition from an oral tradition to written texts can lead to religious stridency by giving the reader an unrealistic certain…
The British DID integrate in India (before the 1780s)

‘Over the centuries, many powers have defeated Indian armies; but none has ever proved immune to this capacity of the subcontinent to somehow reverse the current of colonisation, and to mould those who attempt to subjuga…

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