Dr Sohail Ansari

 liberal political discourse often employs terms with strongly positive connotations when presenting liberal institutions or historical projects. Examples include: liberty, freedom, democracy, rule of law, human rights, representative government. Historically, there are indeed examples where imperial powers described their own actions using such language—for example, references to the "civilizing mission" or "bringing liberty" while simultaneously exercising colonial rule. That observation is part of a substantial scholarly literature, especially in postcolonial studies. However, one should still distinguish between: how particular historical actors justified their actions , and the meanings of the concepts themselves . The fact that a government invokes "freedom" does not by itself establish that the concept of freedom is merely propaganda.

 Suppose a nineteenth-century writer argued: Manifest Destiny spread liberty and the rule of law. A discourse analyst would ask: Whose liberty? Rule of law for whom? Did indigenous peoples experience the same "rule of law"? How did those affected describe these events? Those are precisely the kinds of questions CDA encourages.

  Deceptive reasoning by Dr Sohail Ansari   (I LAUGH BUT BELATEDLY part 6)   N umbers are deceptive People justify the spate of recent violence in USA against black by saying different things. They quote number of white people being killed by black and say that ‘black kill many white people, but no one says anything’. ‘I can personally attest that  there is plenty of anti-White racism in the USA .  Not only did I experience it myself (I lived in Washington, DC from 1986-1991), but it has been amply documented by people like Colin Flaherty whose books “ White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It ”   We must understand that numbers are deceptive; giving an impression different from the true one; thus misleading . Prof. Boddington  has defined statistics  as: “The science of estimate and probabilities.” This science is to be drawn for analyzing numerical data for the purpose of inferring p...

" ولقد کرمنا بنی آدم وحملناهم فی البر و البحر و رزقناهم من الطيباب وفضلناهم علی کثير ممن خلقنا تفضيلا " "Certainly we gave dignity the Children of Adam, and carried them over land and sea, and provided them with all the good things, and given them an advantage over many of those We have created with a complete preference. (Q.17:70) (I LAUGH BUT BELATEDLY part 5) ‘Then there is what Solzhenitsyn called the “decline of courage” in the West: the vast majority US politicians have basically lost the ability to criticize Blacks, even when it is quite obvious that many of the current problems of the Black population of the USA are created by Blacks themselves: I think of the truly vulgar, obscene and overall disgusting “rap culture” with which most Black youth are now “educated” in since early childhood or how many Black youth have been brainwashed into considering gang members and street prostitutes as the measure of what “looking cool” looks like in terms of clothes, ...

But We have certainly tried those before them, and Allah will surely make evident those who are truthful, and He will surely make evident the liars. [Quran, 29:3] Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. King James Bible  (I LAUGH BUT BELATEDLY part 4)  ‘ The systemic collapse of the US society has begun   I have lived in the United States for a total of 24 years and I have witnessed many crises over this long period, but what is taking place today is truly unique and much more serious than any previous crisis I can recall.  And to explain my point, I would like to begin by saying what I believe the riots we are seeing taking place in hundreds of US cities are not about.  They are  not  about: 1. Racism or “White privilege” 2. Police violence 3. Social alienation and despair 4. Poverty 5. Trump 6. The liberals pouring fuel on social fires 7. The infighting of the US elites/deep state T...

“The unjust shall not have any compassionate friend nor any intercessor who should be obeyed.” Qur'an, 40:18. “Learn to do good; seek  justice , correct  oppression ; bring  justice  to the fatherless, and please the widow's cause,” (Isaiah 1:17). (I LAUGH BUT BELATEDLY part 3) Citation can never be for the sake of it. “Citing” refers to giving an example of some subject for substantiating oneself. Examples are given and books or sites are cited to develop claims or to counter any reasoning. A responder states: ‘problem is that the left likes to scream all the time, and that’s what we end up hearing’ Left misguides   through screaming (that black suffers otherwise reality is otherwise) is what a responder suggests, therefore,   to put us in the right perspective a responder should have cited some conservative and right-wing media, but he refers to https://thesaker.is/the-systemic-collapse-of-the-us-society-has-begun/ that claims to be the ...