Tag: Liberalism
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Representation Culture: Negotiating the TV Muslim
The narrative journeys of Muslims in fiction are shoehorned into a pendulum of tradition versus modernity, Western versus strange. Stories illustrating the journey to reconcile the two necessarily entails subsuming Islam under discount Netflix theology with the sirens of self-as-god.
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La muerte de la comunidad y el auge del individualismo
Mientras generalmente somos conscientes que vivimos en una época “moderna”, a diferencia de época “medieval” o “antigua,” con mejor tecnología y diferentes normas sociales, sin embargo, nos quedamos ajenas y desconocidos a los aspectos más grandes, totalizadores, y omnipresentes de nuestro mundo.
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Religious Symbols, Liberalism, and Laïcité in Quebec
In December 2021, a Muslim woman in Quebec, Canada lost her teaching position because she refused to remove her hijab in the classroom. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite his personal disagreement with the law that cost her a job, would not intervene in this “touchy subject,” as the bill under discussion was voted in democratically.…
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Preaching, Morality, and Salvation
One of the most common replies that anyone who expresses a call to Islamic morality receives is “you can’t impose your beliefs on others!” This accusation is way off base for a number of reasons.
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¿Pueden los musulmanes europeos resistirse a la asimilación?
Cualquier respuesta musulmana a la situación debe preguntarse primero cómo puede un Estado tolerar el pluralismo sin sentirse fundamentalmente amenazado. Para ello, una incursión en la historia global puede resultar valiosa…
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Can European Muslims Resist Assimilation?
The Charter of Principles of French Islam declares the religion to be compatible with France’s particular brand of secularism, laïcité, and its attendant values; in other words, it represents the subjugated and heavily privatised form of the religion that President Macron wishes to see. In January, a close advisor to Macron warned that Muslim organizations…
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A Book Review of Mona Eltahawy’s “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution”
The most worrying problem with Eltahawy is that she will not accept an Islam that isn’t chastened by secular liberalism.
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Biden and the Uncivil War That Divides America
President Joe Biden in his inaugural address promised to heal the country and defeat ‘white supremacy,’ yet nativism remains a potent force that can still destabilize the republic
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Paranoia of Islam in Literary Orientalism
As Islamophobia pervades the world, invading minds and infecting intellect, Muslims have arisen as a target for collective crucifixion and condemnation. It’s a tradition of hate with a hoary past, the complexities of which can be navigated through a sustained investment in critical thinking. Amidst the tumult of the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution,…
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Reimagining Politics Amidst the Global Pandemic
As someone allergic to what government authorities have to say, I felt an unexpected change of heart during my three dedicated years of life in studying Public Policy and Management at university. Much to my surprise, I found widespread apolitical behavior in the presumably political environment of the faculty of Social and Political Sciences at…