Making an interjection at the 18 ASEM Seminar on Human Rights and Prevention of Violent Extremism, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2018.
Delivering Keynote Critique & Islam at the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) Annual Conference on Postcolonial Unreason, organized by Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, India
Sharing a moment with sociologist Zygmunt Bauman at the conference “Philosophers bridge the Bosphorus” Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
Speaking to SkyTV, Australia, in May 2015 about the “Reclaim Australia” Rally by the Christian Nationalists
Proposing that we hold inter-political dialogue before interfaith dialogue, at the UNDP Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, Oslo, 2016.
Making an interjection at the 18 ASEM Seminar on“Human Rights and Prevention of Violent Extremism, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2018.
Delivering Keynote Critique & Islam at the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) Annual Conference on “Postcolonial Unreason,” organized by Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, India
Sharing a moment with sociologist Zygmunt Bauman at the conference “Philosophers bridge the Bosphorus” Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
Speaking to SkyTV, Australia, in May 2015 about the “Reclaim Australia” Rally by the Christian Nationalists
Proposing that we hold inter-political dialogue before interfaith dialogue, at the UNDP Conference on Preventing Violent Extremism, Oslo, 2016.
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Note this exception in latest take by Ashutosh Varsheny, earlier a votary of #RSS - #BJP vision. How he befools us & himself arguing
that 2014 #election was “not” about Hindu nationalism. He “critiques”#Hindutva while remaining enslaved to its language.
https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/podcast-india-might-be-entering-the-stage-of-pogroms-now/amp
To understand the current moment in India, it is important to not exceptionalize it.
Islamophobia might have been stretched to its limits by the @BJP4India but it was always part of the Indian political DNA across party lines.
@IrfanHindustan writes:
https://www.thepolisproject.com/read/combat-concepts-in-indian-politics-understanding-democracy-as-politics-of-enmity/
That bulldozers have cropped up in #India and #Israel as a chilling symbol of state repression is no coincidence. In both India and Israel, the far-right regimes in power share vision of an ethnic-majoritarian apartheid state. #Hindutva #Zionism #Islam
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/india-israel-bulldozer-demolitions/
How to say ‘Eid Greetings amidst cheers 4 d state bulldozing Muslims’ homes, boycotting their business & open calls by #Hindus for anti-Muslim violence? #Hindutva is dominant such dat #Muslims fear not only for their way of life but their very bare lives. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85580-2_5
This essay is good. 'No historian in her right mind would say“Yes, #Hitler was horrible to the #Jews , but...he built the autobahn!”... It’s not that what’s positive or negative depends on perspective but that #oppressive systems are not good 4 anyone...' https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/pros-cons-british-empire-balance-sheet-history-imperialism.html
MA #sociology partipant Batul expains the significance of studying @ibnHalduni_En or @ibnhalduni in #Istanbul #Anthropology
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