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February 5, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Black History Month & Dismantling Whiteness in ‘the Shining City Upon a Hill’
A ‘shining city upon a hill’ is one of the most enduring metaphors for America’s self-constructed image of itself in the world, pillar in identify formation and the crafting of larger than life purpose religiously laden with inescapable inferences. In a Farewell Address delivered on January 11th, 1989, the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan framed…
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February 1, 2015 | Daily Sabah
A racial moment: Reflections on race, racism and resistance
February is the start of another Black History Month; an annual occurrence started first by historian Carter G. Woodson in 1926 as a one week celebration of African American contributions to the U.S., which then grew in 1976 to a full month. Symbolically appropriate, February is the shortest month of the years. What started in…
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January 28, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
‘Interfaith’ Under Occupation is Normalization, Not Solidarity!
Recently a firestorm has taken the US based Palestine solidarity movement because of the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative(MLI), as a second group of young American Muslim participants finished a two week fully sponsored visit to participate in an ‘interfaith’ program. The controversy is connected to Palestinian’s civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and…
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January 26, 2015 |
Interview | The Souls of Muslim Folk: Islam and Decolonial Futures
An interview with Vitamin D focusing on the Souls of Muslim Folk and examining militarism, colonial and embedded intellectuals at the university and double consciousness etc. The Souls of Muslim Folk: Islam and Decolonial Futures by Vitamin_D on Mixcloud
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January 26, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Constructive chaos and diplomacy by other means!
Hundred years removed from World War I and alleged plans to birth a peaceful world, we are back where we started. As death, destruction and massive destabilization is witnessed in the Arab and Muslim worlds and managed by major powers past and present with handpicked local allies. At World War I’s end the remnants of…
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January 25, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
“No-Go Zones” & No-Intelligence, An Islamophobia Prerequisite
The recent Islamophobic absurdity comes to us courtesy of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who claimed in a London speech delivered at the Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank, that Muslims establish “no-go zones” outside civic control such as the case in Birmingham. Actually, Jindal’s Islamophobic ignorant statements are not original. Steven Emerson was the…
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January 22, 2015 | Daily Sabah
Ahmed Merabet and Charlie Hebdo’s new cover: at whom are we poking fun?
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo murders, Ahmed Merabet’s brother Malek correctly declared: “My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. … Islam is a religion of peace and love. As far as my brother’s death is concerned, it was a waste. He was very proud of…
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January 19, 2015 | Daily Sabah
‘What’s the matter boss, we sick?’
The title of this piece is taken directly from Malcolm X’s speech, “The Race Problem,” which he delivered at Michigan State University in East Lansing on Jan. 23, 1963. In the speech, he drew a distinction between the terms “house negro” and “field negro” as they relate to the problem of race and the internalization…
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January 18, 2015 | Turkey Agenda
Europe, Immigration and the Post-Colonial South
We are all in agreement that large sections in Africa, Asia and the Muslim world are in total collapse with many failed or about to fail states in these regions. Take your pick of a country to include in this category: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Nigeria, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Liberia, the Congo, and the Central…
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January 16, 2015 |
Interview | Race, Racism and Islamophobia in Europe
Race, Racism and Islamophobia in Europe, a 30 minute interview with Dr. Hatem Bazian on UpFront morning program on KPFA https://kpfa.org/episode/110344/
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