Tag: government
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Musings on Iran, Hijab, and the Western Muslim
Recently, deadly protests have broken out across Iran after authorities supposedly detained a woman, Mahsa Amini, and eventually killed her for violating Iranian laws regarding the Hijab. The killing of this woman and the brutal nature of Iranian authorities is surely horrifying and detestable — if it indeed happened as they say. Initial reports stated…
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India’s Hijab Ban, Part II: Defining Islamic Identity
In the previous section we explored a general trend in contemporary thinkers who — while recognizing the flaws in the existing democratic-constitutional-secular-liberal regime (the ideal in international politics) — locate these flaws in something external to the regime as a kind of consequence of history. Legal scholar Faizan Mustafa and historian Irfan Habib are two…
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Islamophobia and the Hijab Ban in India: Q&A with Afreen Fatima
Q&A with Afreen Fatima about the rising injustices against Muslims in India and the hijab ban protests in Karnataka.
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Islam in a Post-Secular Age
Post-secular theory counters the secularization thesis, which taught that religion would wither away as modernity gets older. A post-secular awareness acknowledges the perseverance of religion in modernity. The post-secular refers to a change in consciousness attributed primarily to three phenomena: citizens’ awareness of their secularity within the global horizon, an awareness of religious influences both…