Religious Bigotry
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A call for papers is now open for the forthcoming issue of JCA. Please submit your manuscript to jca@academicstudiespress.com. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2019. All submissions are subjected to a blind peer review... more
Scholars of postwar American Jewish history have traditionally focused on highbrow texts in charting the shifting ways that “Jews,” as a category, has been defined and characterized. Including postwar middlebrow publications in our... more
Anti-Jewishness persists because it is a simple, off-the shelf, solution to so many possible aggrievements, embedded and normalized by history across many cultures, including the cultures of the world’s two largest religions and... more
Adorno and Horkheimer, in their famous “Elements of Anti-Semitism” essay, argued that anti-Semitism has a specific economic purpose: to conceal domination in production and capitalist exploitation. Contemporary Islamophobia can be... more
The following is a response to the unvarnished bigotry and swiftly descending police state that's coming to characterize the policy, actions, and ideology of the Donald Trump administration in the United States. It is written for a... more
In the following paper, I evaluate the rise of the American Alt-Right, particularly as it's personified by Turning Point USA's Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk, in terms of the mercenary "ends justify the means" logic deployed to justify... more
ISLAMIST ZEALOTS ARE ARE AS CRIMINAL AS THE HINDUTVA ZEALOTS
https://sabrangindia.in/article/why-social-media-giants-must-identify-and-remove-zakir-naiks-hate-speech
https://sabrangindia.in/article/why-social-media-giants-must-identify-and-remove-zakir-naiks-hate-speech
It is the narration of what I went through at a TV studio where debate on the Hindu nation was taking place.
20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF BISHOP JOHN JOSEPH IN PAKISTAN: SAD THAT WE DID NOT TAKE NOTE OF HIS MANIFESTO AGAINST RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY This May 6, 2018 is the 20th martyrdom anniversary of a great fighter against religious... more
Khairallah, Assad. "Desire, Taboo, and Transgression: Mystical Hedonism in Qāsim Haddād's Akhbār Majnūn Laylā." Rivista degli studi orientali 87, no. 1/4/1 (2014): 143-152.
The enclosed essay is posted at the AAUP Academe Blog: https://academeblog.org/2017/12/18/how-the-alt-right-seeks-to-sabotage-the-university/ It is the companion piece to "Letter to My Colleagues";... more
If somebody is looking for a gurukul or university to graduate from in deceit and lies, doubtlessly, the RSS will be his or her best choice. Its mastery over this trait is unparalleled and is proved once again by its criminal disregard of... more
In this paper I respond to Linda McClain’s new book, Who’s the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law, by further clarifying the meaning and function of attributions of bigotry. In Section I, I put forth an... more
ये वे सवाल हैं जो हिन्दुत्वादी गिरोह से पूछे जाने चाहिएं जब भी मैं लोकतांत्रिक-धर्मनिरपेक्ष भारत की रक्षा में अल्पसंख्यकों, दलितों, महिलाओं और मजदूर वर्ग के उत्पीड़न के खिलाफ लिखता हूं, मेरे द्वारा उठाए गए मुद्दों और सवालों का जवाब देने... more
It is undeniable Blockbusters such as the Taken trilogy gives a lot of profits to producers and directors. However, in staging the movies' storyline, brilliant producers and directors sometimes exploit their talents to exemplify certain... more
Islamophobia is on the rise in the U.S. and in Europe, often expressed through threats and intimidation, but sometimes also by violent hate crimes and deadly attacks on Muslims. How can we stop the cycle of hate and violence? It’s simple:... more
On 73rd Martyrdom Anniversary of MK Gandhi THE IDENTITY OF THE ASSASSINS OF GANDHIJI AS DISCLOSED BY SARDAR PATEL The world is mourning the 73rd anniversary of MK Gandhi's assassination by the Hindutva terrorists on January 30, 1948. RSS,... more
When a Delhi judge sentenced the son of a Haryana-based industrialist to two years’ imprisonment on Saturday for mowing down a motorcyclist with his luxury car in 2008, he couldn’t help but observe how present-day laws provide more... more
आधुनिक विश्व इतिहास के बदतरीन तानाशाह हिटलर ने जर्मनी पर नाज़ी पार्टी का पूरी तरह शिकंजा कसे जाने के बाद गर्व से घोषणा की थी कि नाज़ी पार्टी की इस सफ़लता की सब से बड़ी वजह जर्मनी के विश्वविद्यालयों पर नाज़ियों का आधिपत्य स्थापित होना था। भारत... more
Asghar Ali Engineer lived to challenge the religious totalitarianism of Bohra Syedna and religion in general He faced persecution but not yielded to diktats.
Khairallah, Assad. "Desire, Taboo, and Transgression: Mystical Hedonism in Qāsim Haddād's Akhbār Majnūn Laylā." Rivista degli studi orientali 87, no. 1/4/1 (2014): 143-152.
This article puts forward the proposition that, in the manner that it is measured in most studies today, the current definition of political tolerance is too similar to that of our understanding o ...
What is below started as an inspiration during the Impeachment Hearings; and, the State of The Union Message by Donald Trump – how he used the February Black Month Reflection to his advantage for his 2020 Re-election. All the Stars in... more
We all are living in times of deceit. Certain developments call for serious introspection if our collective conscience as a nation still pricks us. In the words of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, if we do not change direction, we may end up... more
DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY IN PAKISTAN-BOOK PART OF BACHELORS SYLLABUS BECOMES BAD IN CIVILIAN ERA
September 2021
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23241.06242
Project: History
Agha H Amin
September 2021
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23241.06242
Project: History
Agha H Amin
This article puts forward the proposition that, in the manner that it is measured in most studies today, the current definition of political tolerance is too similar to that of our understanding of what democracy stands for. Consequently,... more
This interview of Shamsul Islam appeared in 2012 on the issue of heightened RSS activity in Kerala. But the questions and answers both touch upon issues applicable in whole of India and relevant even today. Interviewer was Mr. Reyaz and... more
"(A) CREATIVE WORK: This Doctorate of Creative Arts is based on a two-hour radio documentary/feature series entitled ‘Marrying Out’, which draws on 50 oral history interviews recorded by the candidate on the topic of family conflict and... more