The deadly attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego did not happen in a vacuum. It is the outcome of years of fearmongering, scapegoating, and dehumanization targeting an entire religious community.
Unions’ reluctance to engage with workers’ social identities—such as race, ethnicity, and faith—has hindered efforts to build a strong, multiracial labor movement.
Bahareh Hedayati, an Iranian women’s rights and human rights activist who has been arrested and imprisoned several times, was last arrested on October 11 amid the protests that started after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police
Iran's Women-Life-Freedom is a movement that has changed the political culture of defiance and expressions of dissent. Its radical creativity and imaginative forms of collective action, has opened the possibility of thinking of politics anew.
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, while in the custody of Iranian morals police, has sparked a new wave of street demands for democracy. Iranian rulers are targeting the population they are most scared of: Women.
With Islamophobia rife in Europe and the Western hemisphere and with France’s center and far-right parties weaponizing laicity and scapegoating refugees, it’s time for engaged readers to reacquaint themselves with Rodinson’s classic study.
Juan Cole; and an Interview with Joey Lawrence
Informed Comment
Turkey’s incursion into Syria has roiled the Middle East and NATO countries, demonstrating one key polarizing divide on both sides of the Mediterranean. As far as I can tell, that divide is between supporters of political Islam and its opponents.
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