Adam Shatz reviews ‘A Norwegian Tragedy’ by Aage Borchgrevink, translated by Guy Puzey and ‘Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia’ by Sindre Bangstad · LRB 20 November 2014. Before he went on his mass killing spree in 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was a regular at the Palace Grill in Oslo West.
He looked harmless: another blond man trying to chat up women at the bar. ‘He came across as someone with a business degree,’ one woman recalled, ‘one of those West End boys in very conservative clothes.’ Indeed he had tried his hand at business, though he’d never completed a degree, or much of anything else. A Stranger on Lennox Avenue. Michael Appleton for The New York TimesPrabhjot Singh, an assistant professor of international affairs at Columbia University, at a press conference in New York on Monday.
On the evening of Sept. 21, Prabhjot Singh, an assistant professor in the International and Public Affairs program at Columbia University in New York and the co-director of a community health care program in Harlem, was walking near his house in Harlem. Mr. Singh is a Sikh man of Indian origin and wears a long flowing beard and a turban. Around 8 p.m., a group of young black men on bicycles confronted Mr. Singh on Lenox Avenue and shouted racist slurs at him, shouting, “get Osama” and “terrorist.” Some people nearby intervened and the attackers rode off. On Monday, Mr. Reviews. Elizabeth F.
Thompson. Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Neither Heroes, Nor Villains: A Conversation with Talal Asad on Egypt After Morsi. [This conversation was recorded on Thursday, 11 July 2013.
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Head to Head Last updated: 23 June 2013. Net Reviews. Is Bangladesh a country of secular Bengalis or Muslim Bangladeshis? Photograph by Michael Gumtau by Lailufar Yasmin.
Foucault-and-the-iranian-revolution-janet-afary. Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia. Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow.
The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended considerable ink and precious breath rationalizing away the possibility of cosmic forces and explaining in scientific terms why those who believe in a divine creator are, well, stupid. It appears, however, that some of those believers are stupider than others. Sam Harris, the New Atheists, and anti-Muslim animus. (updated below - Update II - Update III [Thurs.])
Two columns have been published in the past week harshly criticizing the so-called "New Atheists" such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens: this one by Nathan Lean in Salon, and this one by Murtaza Hussain in Al Jazeera. The crux of those columns is that these advocates have increasingly embraced a toxic form of anti-Muslim bigotry masquerading as rational atheism. Yesterday, I posted a tweet to Hussain's article without comment except to highlight what I called a "very revealing quote" flagged by Hussain, one in which Harris opined that "the people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists.
" Shortly after posting the tweet, I received an angry email from Harris, who claimed that Hussain's column was "garbage", and he eventually said the same thing about Lean's column in Salon. Let's first quickly dispense with some obvious strawmen. Wresting Islam from Islamists - Opinion. In a magnificent new essay, "Egypt's revolution: as it might have been; as it could be", published on the occasion of the second anniversary of the January 25, 2011, revolution, veteran journalist Hani Shukrallah muses over the course of the Egyptian revolution and in the rhetorical guise of a series of "what if's" he in fact charts the course of the unfinished revolution for Egypt.
In a key passage of this rather long but exceedingly important essay, Hani Shukrallah writes: Under somewhat different circumstances, and a relatively greater level of political and organisation experience, the Revolutionary Youth Coalition could have been transformed from the largely behind the scenes field leadership that it had been into the core formation of a national revolutionary leadership able to speak openly, clearly and forcefully on its behalf, indeed, to make of itself - to use the common phrase - the sole legitimate representative of the revolution. Political Islam in a Pakhtun village - Dr Husnul Amin. The writer is an Islamabad-based academic and an expert on Islamic social movements.
While leafing through Maududi’s Islami Riyasat (Islamic State) in 2006, as a doctoral fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, I remembered first reading it in 1991, when I was a student-activist in an organisation that subscribed to Maududi’s ideology. Conducting research on the Islamic movement, the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, its ideology, historical trajectories and the perpetual dissent it spawned over time, is not merely an academic pursuit for me. The Jamaat and its deep imprints on society are personal for me. The War on Terrorism: Is There an Alternative? · LRB 15 May 2002. This public debate took place in Logan Hall, Institute of Education, London on 15 May 2002.
The speakers were Tariq Ali (TA), Christopher Hitchens (CH), Anatol Lieven (AL), Onora O’Neill (OON) and Jacqueline Rose (JR). Saudi preacher gets off light for raping, killing daughter. A Saudi preacher who raped his five-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay "blood money" to the mother after having served a short jail term, activists said on Saturday. Lamia al-Ghamdi was admitted to hospital on December 25, 2011 with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns, the activists said. She died last October 22. Decoding facial hair in the Arab world. 1 February 2013Last updated at 20:11 ET. Bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested in Turkey: Daily. ANKARA – Milliyet Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
AP Photo/File Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law was arrested in Ankara by Turkish security forces after Washington allegedly informed Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) about his location, daily Milliyet reported today. Deconstructing Counter-factual Populism. John R. Bowen correctly notes that there are votes to be won with anti-Muslim propaganda, and not just on the fringes of the right: "In most of Europe, as in the United States, a new far-right populism has been gaining ground, and skilful politicians of the more moderate right have sought to reclaim some of those votes by joining in condemnation of Islam and the elites who supposedly coddled it. " Islamophobia (not a term Bowen uses) has a currency and respectability that outright racism or other illiberal hatreds don't have, which is what makes it so very dangerous.
Bowen, professor for Socio-cultural Anthropology whose current research focuses on comparative social studies of Islam across the world, thus wastes no time getting to the point, beginning with the ubiquitous claims that European governments have followed multiculturalist policies that have prevented Muslims from integrating. Algeria Hostage Crisis Highlights Islamist Threat Across North Africa. Western leaders on Friday were pressing for details on a bloody operation by Algerian special forces to free hundreds of hostages from their Islamist captors at a desert natural gas field.
The Islamists said they took the hostages in retaliation for French intervention in neighboring Mali, and have threatened further attacks in the future. Letters from Oslo. April 22. Zaid Hamid – A Visual Tribute. The reviews are in: 'Zero Dark Thirty makes me hate muslims' The film Zero Dark Thirty is now showing in theaters nationwide and reactions are starting to appear on social networks. Great info-map of Sahel dynamics. In Translation: Atwan on the Gulf and the Brothers. I am Hazara. Every Friday, after the Juma prayer, people start filing into this small place at the foothills.
Zoë Heller on Joseph Anton by Salman RushdieThe New York Review of... - Hatchet Job of the Year. Torture in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. At the same time that the European Court of Human Rights has issued a historic ruling condemning the C.I.A.’s treatment of a terror suspect during the Bush years as “torture,” a Hollywood movie about the agency’s hunt for Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty”—whose creators say that they didn’t want to “judge” the interrogation program—appears headed for Oscar nominations. Can torture really be turned into morally neutral entertainment? “Zero Dark Thirty,” which opens across the country next month, is a pulse-quickening film that spends its first half hour or so depicting a fictionalized version of the Bush Administration’s secret U.S. interrogation program.
The GOP's Anti-Muslim Wing Is in Retreat. Toleration and the Future of Europe by Timothy Snyder. Will Saudi Arabia Ever Change? by Hugh Eakin. On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said. » Islam: Imagined, Practiced, and Forbidden Religion in the Early Modern Atlantic World. What a high court commission wrote about Dr Qadri. Themes... What Is Boko Haram? Zero Farce Thirty. Pakistan's almost-suicide-bombers. Absolute Power: Morsi’s Decree Stuns Egyptians. Talking to foreign media is ‘haram:’ Saudi Grand Mufti. An Indecent Proposal? Luther and the Turks (with tweets) · bintbattuta. Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam's history - Middle East - World. Philippine government, Muslim rebel group agree to peace accord.
How Sectarianism Blinds The Shia To The Horrors Of Syria. Investigation. 39 Ways to Limit Free Speech by David Cole. Rethinking the Muslim Brotherhood - By Khalil al-Anani. Written in blood. Melissa Harris-Perry: Misogyny in the Muslim world. Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? The inspiration behind the Mali Salafites. Jacqueline Rose reviews ‘Murder in the Name of Honour’ by Rana Husseini, ‘In Honour of Fadime’ by Unni Wikan, translated by Anna Paterson and ‘Honour Killing’ by Ayse Onal · LRB 5 November 2009. Soldier Who Taught 'Total War' Against Islam Threatens to Sue Top Military Officer. Osama Bin Laden And The Saudi Muslim Brotherhood - By Stéphane Lacroix.