Discussions of the polarization and Islamization of Turkey under the AK Party rule – especially under Erdoğan – are quite popular in recent years: how Turkey has never been this deeply polarized, how it was fuelled by Erdoğan’s “divisive speeches” and agenda, and how this Islamization and polarization have now become so dangerous that we need to change the government or at least get rid of Erdoğan…
DetailsSometimes it is difficult to find words, even in the face of an obvious injustice. You open your mouth to speak, but there is no language to be found. It is not that you do not care, because you do. But sometimes what is before you is overshadowed by something else. Sometimes the distribution of power is so overwhelmingly fractured that it also splinters the tongue.
DetailsRecalling the Caliphate is not a history or a think tank report or a manifesto, it is a decolonial investigation into the way in which the appearance of a Muslim political identity impacts on the existing world order. Recalling the Caliphate is not a book about Turkey or Iran, let alone interstitial warlords in territories of collapsed states.
DetailsA tone – setting summer school conference is being held this week by the University of Johannesburg in central Cape Town on the topic, ‘Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies’. The conference comes in the wake of the decolonising education struggles associated with #FeesMustFall, that we have been witnessing on university campuses. Decolonisation calls for awareness of complex contradictions in our country, and directs our attention to the demands of the poor for dignified living.
DetailsA year has passed since six were killed and nineteen other Muslims injured in a shooting by Alexandre Bissonnette at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec in Sainte Foy. The event was shocking for its unexpectedly explicit violence against Muslims.
DetailsThe global radical Left needs a dose of its own therapy. It needs to dig into its medicine bag of critical theory and do some psychoanalysis on its own popular consciousness before pointing the finger at anyone else, and especially Muslims. The global radical Left’s hegemonic historiography of the Bolshevik Revolution and following Soviet project must be revisited critically, and away from the saintly hagiography that videos like this continue to put forward 100 years later.
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