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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here - Karima Bennoune

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here

Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

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Buch | Hardcover
416 Seiten
2013
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-08158-9 (ISBN)
CHF 39,95 inkl. MwSt
Eye-opening accounts of heroic resistance to religious extremism.
In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a “dark corner” by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cissé produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls. In Algeria, publisher Omar Belhouchet and his journalists struggled to put out their paper, El Watan (The Nation), the same night that a 1996 jihadist bombing devastated their offices and killed eighteen of their colleagues. In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abdirizak Bihi organized a Ramadan basketball tournament among Somali refugees to counter the influence of Al Shabaab. From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and beyond, these trailblazers often risked death to combat the rising tide of fundamentalism within their own countries. But this global community of writers, artists, doctors, musicians, museum curators, lawyers, activists, and educators of Muslim heritage remains largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other.

A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.

Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California–Davis School of Law. She grew up in Algeria and the United States and now lives in northern California.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.10.2013
Zusatzinfo 20 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 244 mm
Gewicht 739 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-393-08158-3 / 0393081583
ISBN-13 978-0-393-08158-9 / 9780393081589
Zustand Neuware
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