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Fear and Loathing
Merryl Wyn Davies explores what we fear, AbdelWahab El-Affendi tackles Islamophobia and Orientalism in the age of liberal paranoia, Arun Kundnani charts the rise of the English Defence League and the far right in Europe, Vinay Lal is perplexed by Hindus who love Hitler, Gordon Steffey joins Christian fundamentalists at ‘Liberty University’, Fanar Haddad is appalled by sectarian ...
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What We Fear by Merryl Wyn Davies
Old aphorisms never die, they simply fade with over-use, suffering a fate common enough with sacred text: oft repeated words of high sentence, seldom reasoned with, or mined for fresh meaning. To become a rhetorical flourish is not necessarily to remain a burst of illumination. Take, for example, Franklin D Roosevelt’s clarion call: ‘We have nothing to fear but fear ...
Neocon Orientalists by AbdelWahab El-Affendi
Barely six weeks after the 9/11 attacks in America, a prominent New Yorker and ‘liberal’ intellectual, Paul Berman, published ...
Hindutva's Sacred Cows by Vinay Lal
The lynching of five dalits – Virender, Dayanand, Kailash, Raju Gupta and Tota Ram – in Jhajjar (Haryana), reportedly by a frenzied ...
Taking Liberty by Gordon Blaine Steffey
‘When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is ...
Twenty-First-Century Crusaders by Arun Kundnani
In September 2009, as the organisation was preparing for a major demonstration in Manchester the following month, the English Defence ...
Top 10 Please-God Gadgets
Thanks to the wonders of technology, delivered courtesy of Western civilisation, Muslims can now fulfill their religious duties with ...