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@Enigmatic
Dark times indeed... 🤔🤔🤔
@Shamsusayed
The Education Minister has resigned.
Do you think this solves the problem, or is it just the beginning of real education reform? 👀
@Shamsusayed
One resignation made headlines.
But will students actually see a better examination system, or will this be forgotten in a few months?
What’s your take?
@kulz
How to identify someone brave who pays attention to what is happening in the world?
@Nauman08
Finally..
DP has resigned.. what next? Or let me ask who's next😬
Cabinet members be like "Darr ka mahaul hai"
@AusafAhmed
Slowly but steadily I'm turning into Senator John Kennedy 😆😅 pray for me please 🙏🏼
@mds13
<CUSTOM_BOLD>#CJP #IdentityPolitics #FramingTheory #PoliticalNarratives</CUSTOM_BOLD>
🟩 Part 02: Why Identity Matters Even in a Secular Movement?
Fair question. Alright, let it not matter for us.
But does that guarantee that those authoritarian forces determined to discredit the movement will also ignore identity? Certainly not.
Every movement struggles when attention shifts from the issue itself to the identity of those participating in it. That's not a weakness; it is a political reality.
Snow & Benford's Framing Theory explains that movements do not merely struggle over issues; they also struggle over how those issues are understood by stakeholders.
Put simply, every protest has two battlefields.
The first is the street. The second is the frame.
The street belongs to the protesters.
The frame belongs to whoever succeeds in defining the dominant narrative.
Now ask yourself honestly...
Do you buy the argument that these very authoritarian forces are not hell-bent on redefining movements through labels rather than arguments?
Pakistani agents. Terrorist sympathisers. Urban Naxals. Khalistanis. Tukde-Tukde Gang.
If such framing has become predictable, then recognising it isn't paranoia. It's political literacy.
This is precisely why some of us argue that loud Muslim visibility should not inadvertently offer an opportunity for the movement's frame to shift from the issue of being protested to the identity of those protesting.
Are We Gatekeeping the Ummah?
I don’t think so.
The suggestion against occupying stage, hold mic, lend news bite to media or be present in camera visuals, in short, occupying the limelight is actually a sincere word of caution.
If you wish to participate, participate.
If you wish to remain anonymous in the crowd wearing your favourite Marvel character's mask, do that.
Every individual must ultimately decide according to their own understanding and risk appetite.
But please don't participate merely to prove your activism.
Past experience has repeatedly demonstrated that no amount of performative patriotism permanently satisfies those already determined to question your belonging.
Participate because your conscience demands it. The rest is noise.
How I Choose to Observe This Movement Going Forward
Movements are judged not only by moments of mobilisation, but by the consistency of civic engagement once the headlines fade.
The energy of Gen Z is refreshing. It has expanded the democratic space for opposition.
But I have a fe things in my bucket to observe:
<CUSTOM_BOLD>Will this solidarity continue when tomorrow’s injustice concerns someone less politically convenient?
Will these voices remain equally vocal when issues like Umar Khalid, Jauhar University continue demanding attention?
Will they remain equally committed when the news cycle moves on, or they wd get swayed by the next Man Ki Baat?
Only time will answer.
For now, I choose cautious optimism over unquestioning romanticism.
Where Should We Tire Ourselves Out?
Quality education reaching the grassroots.
Greater representation in public institutions.
Community financing structures.
Accountable Waqf governance.
Preparing roadmaps on our strategic interests.
Spiritual upliftment.
Works of Dawah.
Interfaith dialogue.
Social and inter-community outreach.
Our own prominent media house.
Livelihood and khairkhwahi must go hand in hand.
Politics must remain strategic, while our understanding of strategy continues to evolve.
Alas! Communities are not remembered for the noise they make in moments of crisis, but for the institutions they build, the wisdom they preserve, and the generations they prepare...✍️
Feel free to comment what are the actionable points from your perspective? 🤔👀
@mds13
<CUSTOM_BOLD>#CJP #NotWhetherButHow #AsymmetricRisk #Strategy #MJGA</CUSTOM_BOLD>
🟩 Part 01: Visibility is Not the Only Currency of Activism
How I have been understanding the developments unfolding around the CJP protests, and more so the fine contours of social solidarity, identity and strategy.
I recall Harsh Mander addressing a group of Ulama behind closed doors in Kolkata, during the CAA-NRC protests in 2019. Before his public address, he asked them:
"Tomorrow, when the issues are not particularly Muslim-centric, will you still hit the streets with the same zeal and energy as you are doing today? Can I have that assurance?
The room responded in unison, "Labbaik. We shall definitely be present."
Looking back, I think many of us underestimated that <CUSTOM_BOLD>a community living under asymmetric vulnerability should never confuse visibility with contribution.</CUSTOM_BOLD> Ad-hoc commitments often create expectations while overlooking unequal political realities.
What’s the problem with visibility?
Political theorists may debate the terminology, but every minority instinctively understands asymmetrical risk, and more so under a facist regime. Two citizens may shout the same slogan.
One walks away after a lathi charge. The other may face bulldozer justice.
One gets bail, other may not even get the oppurtunity to seek bail or may face prolonged incarceration.
So, strategy begins where equality of consequence ends.
What exactly is being suggested? As I understand it)
Question is not whether we participate? But how ?
So as to amplify demands while understanding that we bear disproportionate risk.
Nobody is asking Muslims to dilute the cause. The suggestion seems to be something much narrower to not inadvertently become the symbol of the cause.
There is a difference.
<CUSTOM_BOLD>Courage without strategy can become sacrifice.
Strategy without courage become silence.</CUSTOM_BOLD>
The challenge is to preserve both.
People seem to resent this suggestion because visibility has somehow become the only recognised currency of activism. To me, that is a false binary. Gene Sharp explained that resistance has hundreds of methods. Somewhere along the way, we have reduced all of them to standing in front of a camera holding a placard — Hum le ke rahenge Aazadi
A movement is much bigger than that. It needs:
Writers shaping public opinion.
Journalists documenting events.
Lawyers filing petitions.
Doctors treating the injured.
Researchers. Fact-checkers. Fundraisers. Social media handlers.
All of them are as important as negotiators and frontline protesters.
Resource Mobilization Theory explains that successful movements are not built because everyone performs the same role. They succeed because different people contribute according to different capacities and constraints.
We are not saying we won’t play.
We are simply saying we will choose our squares this time and henceforth based on our shared experiences and political realities.
We don’t want to be the pawn that always moves first, clearing the way for others while bearing the earliest and disproportionate sacrifices.
So, we will observe. Decipher. Contribute where we are most effective.
Not because we have become less courageou or that its about whataboutism.
But because we have become more strategic.
Now, if the issue is secular, why bring identity into it at all? Please read post 02...✍️
@omarsitto
"Allah has promised those of you who believe and do good that He will certainly make them successors in the land, as He did with those before them; and will surely establish for them their faith which He has chosen for them; and will indeed change their fear into security—˹provided that˺ they worship Me, associating nothing with Me. But whoever disbelieves after this ˹promise˺, it is they who will be the rebellious. "
- -Quran 24:55
Change happens from within and from the bottom - up. Meaning you want the Muslims to be victorious over the non believers and have authority on earth, then worship Allah swt, establish prayer, give in charity, embody islam to the best of your ability.
If you change and get closer to Allah, and your neighbor does the same, before long the community as a whole and the leaders who rule over them will also act righteously and defend Islam and the believers and all oppressed people.
However if you aren't even praying 5 times a day or even 1 out of the 5, how can you expect change in the Muslim oppressed condition of the ummah in current times. Follow Quran and Sunnah, do better. Otherwise dont complain about the ummah when you arent even doing the basic tasks Islam and Allah swt commands. Yet you except justice from corrupt leaders , political parties, and governments.
Quran and Sunnah is the answer to the corruption on earth.