What do you say when you have nothing to say? That is the dilemma suddenly thrust on political leaders and editorialists in France since three masked gunmen entered the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and massacred a dozen ...
Read More »Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech — It Was About War
By Asghar Bukhari White people don’t like to admit it, but those cartoons upheld their prejudice, their racism, their political supremacy, and cut it how you will — images like that upheld a political order built on discrimination. In less than an ...
Read More »War begets war: It’s not about Islam; it never was
It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important for many to conflate politics with religion; partly because it is convenient and self-validating. First, ...
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