Honi Soit
FIRST PRINTED 1929
WEEK 4, SEM. 1, 2019
6-7: ANALYSIS
11-13: FEATURE
How we are grieving: reflections on Christchurch
The conservative agenda in Australia’s secondary education
Dates, olives, pomegranates and figs: these are the fruits of jannah, of paradise, as revealed to us in the Quran. Lush, green and opulent. An orchard of comforts. It is this kind of divine imagery a Muslim thinks of, when nauseated at the murder of over 50 of our brothers and sisters in Christchurch. Our hearts still ache as we have watched the body count rise, not knowing a face or a name but still know-
At university, it is quite easy for us to think our politics developed and, in some cases, began in the halls of the Camperdown campus. After all, for most of us, high school was a fundamentally apolitical space. There were no political parties recruiting, no autonomous collectives, and the SRC was for over-achievers looking to organise a fundraiser rather than a vicious fighting ground for zealous
ing that each and every one of the deceased was our kin. In the tenth verse of Surat Al Hujarat, it is said that the relationship between believers is that of brotherhood, the same as two hands washing each other. This is akin to the way that mosques are not only houses of worship but community centres.
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students. When compared to university, then, high school really does seem like a ‘simpler time of yesteryear,’ unsullied by the political battles we face today. However, a closer inspection of high school classrooms across the country suggests our rosetinted glasses may, in fact, have misled us.
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