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Murtaza Hussain: Journalism Can Dispel Myths, Fight Bigotry

October 20, 2016 By Dr. Milena Rampoldi 1 Comment

The following is my interview with Murtaza Hussain, journalist and political commentator at The Intercept. His work focuses on human rights, foreign policy, and cultural affairs. Murtaza’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Salon, and elsewhere. I would like to thank Murtaza for his time and challenging answers to my questions.

Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik: How should we work as journalists today to help people understand what is Islam and what is nihilism and Islamophobic propaganda?

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Media & Culture Tagged With: Daesh, Islam, Islamophobia, journalism, media, Press Freedom

An Ode To Zaynab: Learning History & Combating Terror

December 9, 2015 By Professor A.L.I. 1 Comment

When my high school history teacher Jeff Ustick first posed the question of what the purpose of history was, to me, I had little idea then that later in life I too would become a historian like him. At the time, there were several quotes he shared with us including the cliché, “those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it,” in an effort to spark a classroom discussion.

I forget the ensuing conversation, but in the time since, in which I majored in history at UC Berkeley and went on to become a history teacher, I believe I found my own reason for why history should be studied, and it is a nuanced perspective on the cliché I re-quoted above. I believe that history is filled with familiar patterns of human behavior. Once we recognize the catalysts to these behaviors we can begin to predict how humans might behave. This knowledge is therefore vital, if put to use to prevent wars and conflict—however and predictably so, human greed not knowledge tends to drive the actions of these political actors upon humanity’s drama.

Take for example the role we, i.e. the West have played in the Middle East for the past one hundred years. Not unlike our ongoing relationship with the African continent, or throughout Asia, the Caribbean and also Latin America, we have engaged in the process of raw resource extraction for our profit. We have treated the Middle East as a place to deplete.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Daesh, ISIS, Islam, Music, terrorism, Wahhabism

ISIS: The Caliphate — What’s In A Name?

December 8, 2015 By David Seaton Leave a Comment

One of the principal difficulties in trying to analyze Daesh is that we concentrate our attention almost exclusively upon their identity as terrorists and we don’t pay sufficient attention to their identity as a political movement with clear objectives: objectives which they pursue in a patient, methodical and even “sophisticated” manner.

Experience shows that a subversive movement with a social base, even a small one, can resist decades of intense pressure, both political and military. Groups without such a base, such as Italy’s Red Brigades or Germany’s Baader Meinhof are quickly extinguished, but organizations with a social base such as Peru’s Shining Path or Spain’s ETA can go on for decades.

An example from a modern, European country:

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Daesh, ISIS, Muslims, propaganda, terrorism

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