Debates and Discussions
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Counter Currents – Generational Trauma & Toxic Families
I A sincere question stands before us: How do we live after inheriting wounds we did not choose, parents at war with themselves, with each other and with us, homes that taught fear before trust, patterns that seem to pass like blood from one generation to the next? We are told to “heal,” to “set boundaries,” to “break cycles,” and many try; yet the attempt often collapses into exhaustion. People ask, almost whispering, what if we fail again? What if what they did to us is already deciding what we will do to our children? How are we do come out of this circle of “trauma”? While we face these…
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Tolerance as Treason: How Liberal Muslims Betray Truth
I – The Burial of Truth When a civilisation buries Truth, its ‘tolerance’ is a polite nihilism. Allah declares, ‘Truth has arrived and falsehood has vanished; surely falsehood is ever bound to perish’ (17:81). The modern call for tolerance is not rooted in truth, but in exhaustion from conflict. It is not a principled virtue but a negotiated peace imposed by secular elites in a world where meaning has decayed. Yet true tolerance, in the Qur’anic and Prophetic tradition, is not born of relativism, it is born of reverence, reverence for truth, and thus for the human capacity to seek it. Without such a shared metaphysical ground, the language of…
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Counter-Narrative | Response to “Empty Houses, Aging Parents: Kashmir’s Wealth Illusion”
The lament of empty houses in Kashmir, while deeply evocative, is not just a social observation – it is a cultural indictment, a misdiagnosed ailment offered with the wrong medicine. What masquerades in this piece as financial wisdom is, in fact, the latest iteration of Western secular epistemology dressed up as parental care and economic prudence. The article’s message – “live for yourself, not your children; invest in savings, not structures; be financially independent, not emotionally entangled” – is a eulogy for the death of a civilization’s metaphysical backbone: the family. The core ideological assumption of the article is secular liberalism, wrapped in the soft cloak of economic rationality. The…
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Counter Narrative | A Culture that Silences Men or Men with a Culture Silenced?
An article, appearing in Kashmir Observer, laments Kashmiri men’s silence as a cultural flaw, failing to realize that this very critique is shaped by Western therapeutic individualism. It sees emotional restraint not as a form of self-discipline (a classical virtue) but as repressive pathology. This betrays its underlying ideological commitments—secular humanism, psychologism, and gender-neutral egalitarianism—which define the human being as a bundle of expressive needs rather than a moral actor bound by higher purpose. But traditional Kashmiri culture, steeped in religion and spirituality, never denied emotional reality. It simply ordered emotions hierarchically: grief in prayer, pain in sabr, joy in shukr. The Prophet Muhammad (saw) wept, yes—but in balance, in…
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Counter Narrative | Soft Feminism, Hardcore Destruction
A reflection on a post that came to my knowledge Someone posted on facebook, in a noble and thoroughly confused moment, that feminism is a “theory for women to produce” but for men, it’s about cultivating kindness and empathy—so they may eventually be disarmed of their inner colonizer. To the casual scroll-through eye, it reads like an Instagrammable revolution. But when you slow it down, pour yourself a cup of strong qahwa, and think—really think—you start to feel the full gravity of what this line of thought entails. Spoiler alert: it isn’t gender justice. It’s civilizational evaporation. Let us begin with the smuggled premise: that man, by practicing “traditional manhood,”…