On Jihadi Jane
Tabish Khair’s new book like Jihadi Jane is a tale of disaffected second generation immigrants finding solace in radical Islam. It is a book that traces the radicalization of young women who willingly go to fight for ISIS and becoming jihadi brides. The two friends, Jamilla and Ameena are daughters of Pakistani migrants who moved to Britain. They were as different as they could be – Jamilla, the hijab wearing religious one, Ameena – the regular British teenager fooling aroun…
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Waiting for Justice
“After spending 23 years in jail, I was just like a living corpse. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t sleep. It was only on seeing my old mother and hugging her I could believe that I was still alive…” saying this Nisar Uddin Ahmed broke down in an interview given to NDTV’s Ravish Kumar. Nisar Ahmed is one of the many Muslim youths who have been acquitted in some serious cases after a long drawn legal battle. Along with some others he was booked for bomb blasts in trains carried ou…
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Time to Break the Collective Silence
In an era where extreme binaries proliferate, we are often presented with polarised positions. A moderate strand is conspicuously absent in public discourse. The perception of Islamophobes is that Islam is inherently a violent religion incapable of peace, which cannot co-exist with modernity. To justify this stand, the Islamophobes point out that for fundamentalists the Quran and Shari’a is their guiding source. Whereas the truth is that a significant number of Muslims clai…
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This blog is authored by Parvin Sultana. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Pramathesh Barua College, Assam, India. She regularly writes on contemporary socio-political issues.
