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Identity: Islamophobia

A collection of 10 posts

Identity: Islamophobia

Academics Finally Take Note of Islamophobia

[http://www.qern.org/en/academics-finally-take-note-of-islamophobia/islamophobia-journal-spring2012/] For a number of years, we have been taking academics to task for not doing enough to tackle rising Islamophobia. Academic research makes it way into public policy sooner or later, and a certain paralysis had descended upon the academic community after the

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Anti-Muslim News Corp Comeuppance

From the archive (2011): News Corp’s hacking scandal after years of anti-Muslim output — institutions are checked only by comparable institutional power.

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Muddled Cameron Swerves Hard Right

From the archive (2011): Cameron’s ‘muscular liberalism’ — values rhetoric as exclusion, answered since less by argument than by civic capability.

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Denmark's obsession with Muslims

Cumhuriyet yesterday [21 November 2006] reported that Denmark, which started a crisis when one of its newspapers printed cartoons of Prophet Mohammed(PBUH), has included the phrase “All terrorists are Muslims” in primary school textbooks. Cumhuriyet claimed the textbooks used in Denmark’s schools teach about Islam under chapters titled

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Denmark Incident: the sinister conclusions

From the archive (2006): the cartoons affair and the selective breaking of taboos — an asymmetry now running at machine speed, answerable only institutionally.

US accused of plans to loot Iraq antiques

From the archive (2003): the warning about Iraq’s antiquities, published days before the looting — given in time, not acted on.

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Documentary: Mulla Umer, Amir-ul-Momineen

From the archive (2002): watching an ARY documentary on Mullah Omar critically — the seed of what, institutionalised, becomes media literacy.

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Bush is beaten at his own game

From the archive (2001): a polemic on ‘greatness’ as practised in 2001 — kept as a register of the moment, with the sober answer worked out since.

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Questions that beg answers

From the archive (2001): the questions of the weeks after 9/11, kept unedited — the discipline of public questioning, worth keeping and teaching.

Archive: Afghanistan

As feared, U.S. attacks on Afghanistan appear to become more aimless

From the archive (2001): a real-time assessment that the Afghan campaign was drifting — outside-the-consensus analysis written while events were still deniable.