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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:40:20 -0800 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:40:20 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43812/Interview%2Dwith%2Da%2DBritish%2DJihadist <a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6992">An interview with a British Jihadist.</a> What he believes, how he came to his beliefs. <small>An extended version of the interview from the latest issue of <a href="http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/">Prospect</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43812 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:40:20 -0800 Islam islamist jihad jihadist muslim biffa http://www.metafilter.com/43338/The%2Dnext%2Dterrorist%2Dattack%2Don%2DAmerica%2Dmay%2Dbe%2Dperpetrated%2Dby%2DEuropeans <a href="http://www.cfr.org/publication.php?id=8218">The next terrorist attack on America may be perpetrated by Europeans.</a> Radical Islam is spreading across Europe among descendants of Muslim immigrants. Disenfranchised and disillusioned by the failure of integration, some European Muslims have taken up jihad against the West. They are dangerous and committed -- and can enter the United States without a visa. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43338 Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:49:20 -0800 America Europe immigration Islam jihad Muslim Muslims Radical terrorism US war dsquid http://www.metafilter.com/41148/Good%2DMuslim%2DBad%2DMuslim <small> ...The presumption that there are 'good' Muslims readily available to be split off from 'bad' Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America’s embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam. Mamdani writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of 'good' against 'evil.' Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the 'moral equivalents' of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars has come to an end with the invasion of Iraq. And there, as in Vietnam, America will need to recognize that it is not fighting terrorism but nationalism...</small> Here is an excerpt of <a href="http://www.readersread.com/excerpts/goodmuslimbadmuslim.htm" title="Culture Talk; or, How Not to Talk About Islam and Politics - 'In post–9/11 America, Culture Talk has come to focus on Islam and Muslims who made culture only at the beginning of creation, as some extraordinary, prophetic act. After that, it seems Muslims just conformed to culture. According to some, our culture seems to have no history, no politics, and no debates, so that all Muslims are just plain bad. According to others, there is a history, a politics, even debates, and there are good Muslims and bad Muslims. In both versions, history seems to have petrified into a lifeless custom of an antique people who inhabit antique lands. Or could it be that culture here stands for habit, for some kind of instinctive activity with rules that are inscribed in early founding texts, usually religious, and mummified in early artifacts?'">Chapter 1</a> of <a href="http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Item=978038551537&Catalog=Books&N=35&Lang=en&Section=books&zxac=1" title="...The presumption that there are 'good' Muslims readily available to be split off from 'bad' Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America’s embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam. Mamdani writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of 'good' against 'evil.' Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the 'moral equivalents' of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars has come to an end with the invasion of Iraq. And there, as in Vietnam, America will need to recognize that it is not fighting terrorism but nationalism, a battle that cannot be won by occupation."><em>Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror</em></a>, and with <a href="http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/reviwiegand_mamdani.htm" title="While a slew of books have come out over the past few years to support this argument, Mahmood Mamdani's Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is one of the few to examine thoroughly the phenomenon of modern Islamic terrorism and to demonstrate how its rise is a political reaction to imperialism... The book examines the Western premise that 'bad' Muslims practice terrorism, are 'fundamentalists' and hate freedom, while 'good' Muslims are modern, secular and support US foreign policy. The underlying assumptions, of course, are that any Muslim could be a terrorist and that good Muslims should be ready and willing to prove their patriotism and loyalty.">one review</a>, <a href="http://news.spirithit.com/index/book_reviews/print/good_muslim_bad_muslim/" title="The book begins with an analysis of the ways in which the 'war on terror' has politicised religion, and in particular the pervasive association between 'Muslim' and 'terrorist' now made in the minds of many in America... Behind this assumption is the idea that fundamentalist Islam is premodern and backward, whereas moderate Islam embraces Western values, which are modern and progressive. From this, it is only a short step to begin to imagine that invading countries to bring them democracy is a form of 'liberation.' In reality, the development of religious fundamentalism, its politicization, and the demonization of particular groups on the grounds of belief need to be seen largely in the context of modern Western politics. As Mamdani points out, while the concepts of the Islamic state and popular Islamic-based political movements have been aspirations for intellectuals and activists in Egypt, India and elsewhere, the promotion of religious fundamentalism as a political entity has largely been the work of the US government. This is evident from the ways in which religious fundamentalism has become increasingly influential within the US itself; a fundamentalism that has successfully hijacked what Mamdani calls 'culture talk,' and which has promoted the idea of a 'clash of civilizations' between Islam and Christianity for its own political purposes.">two review</a>, <a href="http://mobile.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13021/" title="Perhaps the heart of this book can be found in the first chapter titled 'Culture Talk; Or How Not To Talk About Islam And Politics'. The author is able to penetrate the limits of conventional discourse on democracy and dictatorship, poverty and wealth and also succeeds in locating 'culture' within the chasm of globalisation. As he explains, unlike the culture studied by anthropologists - face-to-face, intimate, local and lived - the talk of culture is highly politicised and comes in large geo-packages. Hence linking 'terrorism' to Islam and the grossly abused term of 'Islamic terrorism' is a consequence of Culture Talk. The lucid arguments advanced by Mamdani in support of his thesis provides readers with an array of tools to probe deeper or simply to acknowledge his profound contribution. Not only does the author succeed in tracing the footprints of malevolent historians who during the era of the Cold War were responsible for stigmatising Africans as the prime examples of people not capable of modernity; he also does so with equal success in detailing how Islam has displaced Africa as 'the hard premodern core' in a rapidly globalising world.">three reviews</a> hereafter. And here is author <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/RESEARCH/bios/mm1124.html" title="Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is also the Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA.">Mahmood Mandmani </a>interviewed by <a href="http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/mamdani.cfm" title="Even when Bush speaks of 'good' Muslims and 'bad' Muslims, what he means by 'good' Muslims is really pro-American Muslims and by 'bad' Muslims he means anti-American Muslims. Once you recognize that, then it is no longer puzzling why good Muslims are becoming bad Muslims at such a rapid rate. You can actually begin to think through that development. If, however, you think of 'good' and 'bad' Muslims in cultural terms, it is mind-boggling that in one week, you can have a whole crop of 'bad' Muslims - cultural changes do not usually happen with such rapidity! ...Political Islam, especially radical political Islam, and even more so, the terrorist wing in radical political Islam, did not emerge from conservative, religious currents, but on the contrary, from a secular intelligentsia. In other words, its preoccupation is this-worldly, it is about power in this world.">AsiaSource</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41148 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:19:54 -0800 Islam Jihad Mandmani Muslim y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/14401/ <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26284">The veil:Female Form of Jihad???????</a> tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.14401 Sat, 02 Feb 2002 10:17:32 -0800 culture female jihad muslim op-ed religion veil bunnyfire