By Atle Hetland
Why did the tragedy in Norway happen? Why had not the police realised that there was something wrong with the perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik’s behaviour? How come the leaders in the multicultural Norwegian cities did not take seriously the need for more proactive approaches in their integration and diversity policies? Continue reading
Naqib Hamid
The concept of identity occupies a central place in contemporary intellectual discourse as Zygmunt Bauman, one of the leading sociologists today, shows us in Identity in the Globalising World (2000). And it would be correct to note, perhaps, that nowhere in contemporary discourse has the concept of identity been more actively involved than in discussions on religious identity, especially on the ‘reality’, peaceful or problematic, of ‘Muslim identity’ in a post-9/11 scenario. Continue reading
Mir Adnan Aziz
On May 14, 1999, Pope John Paul II bowed and kissed a copy of the Holy Quran presented to him at the Vatican. The gesture earned him the respect and admiration of Muslims the world over. On the contrary, on Sept 22, 2006, his successor Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture to university professors and students at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria. Continue reading
Ahmad Ali Khalid
The best way to deny accountability is to run towards insanity. Even the sane welcome this prospect as long as the burdens of responsibility are lifted from their shoulders. Madness negates any shred of moral responsibility, which opens up a disturbing world. Breivik’s massacre was not an act of madness. It was a cruel and vicious act of terrorism no doubt but it was brutally calculated. There was nothing indiscriminate in his mind about his attacks — he deliberately targeted people who were part of the ruling party.
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By SHABANA SYED
RUPERT Murdoch’s New York Post and The Sun newspaper had already announced that it was Islamic terrorists who attacked Norway before it was known that a right-wing Norwegian nationalist with a passion for reading anti-Muslim hating blogs such as Daniel Pipes, Jihad Watch was the person who killed over 90 innocent people.
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Naqib Hamid
On Friday, July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik shook Norway, and the world. Perhaps, Ayman al-Zawahiri now has this unexpected, unknown foe who has stolen the limelight and air time from him, at least for a while.
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Ali Abunimah
In a Washington Post op-ed last week, Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti Defamation League, likened the Continue reading
By Farooque Chowdhury
The Kill them all and come back alone massacre in Norway shatters the tranquil appearing Norwegian socio-political surface standing on a base full with unresolved contradictions. Continue reading
By Tariq Fatemi
Though our hearts go out to the Norwegians in their hour of grief and anguish, the carnage carried out by Continue reading
By Stephen M. Walt
I was in New York City the past two days and left my laptop in my bag for a change. Continue reading
