Communalism

Articles

• South Africa: The king is dead
  12 April, by siawi3

  Ramaphosa’s comment that Zwelihtini “was a bridge-builder between cultures,” stands in harsh contrast to the xenophobic and homophobic comments that Zwelithini has made in recent years. City Press editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya wrote that the deceased king “should be remembered for what his most prominent role was in our history: a useful idiot in the hands of the apartheid government, whose willingness to lend his powerful position to the service of that regime cost tens of thousands of lives.”

• Bangladesh: Why the Full Story of Mujibur Rehman’s Killing Cannot be Told Officially
  12 April, by siawi3

  The Sheikh Hasina government has been fully committed to punishing those persons who were involved in the actual killing, but what is ultimately more important is to know who all were involved in planning the killings and in giving the go-ahead to the killers, for they would not have moved for such a shocking crime without some reassurance of their own safety and reward from higher levels.

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• ’Prey: Immigration, Islam and the Erosion of Women’s Rights’, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  15 April, by siawi3

  A very critical review of Hirsi Ali’s latest book: “Sexism is not in someone’s DNA because of a lottery of birth. The common denominator of the sexual violence pandemic is not men from Muslim-majority countries but men who commit sexual violence and the states that fail, again and again, to hold them to account.”

• Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes
  16 April, by siawi3

  Your report exemplifies what I propose to call the fourth exile of Algerian Jews: their erasure from the history of the colonization of Algeria. In 160 pages your report gives only two paragraphs about a formerly existing Jewish community in Algeria. In reality, there was not one community but multiple and diverse Berber-Jewish Arab-Jewish communities. Only through the colonial crime against humanity were they forced to become one, as a prelude to its disappearance.

• Israel’s identity crisis
  16 April, by siawi3

  To coincide with Israel’s 73^rd independence day, some surprising new data on the country’s demographics has emerged. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel’s Jewish population has dropped below 74% for the first time since its founding is significant in 1948. As of this year, Israel’s population stands at 9.3 million, but only 6,870,000 of those citizens are Jews, compared to 1,956,000 Arabs and 456,000 other.

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  18 avril, par siawi3
• Black Tunisians breaking taboos
  19 April, by siawi3

  In Tunisia, racism is a well-kept secret that the revolution partially unveiled. This society, which still thinks of itself as white and Arab, has a hard time confronting the discriminations suffered by a good portion of its population. The silence of the state on the issue of racism in Tunisia has very concrete consequences. In Tunisian society, one can be a victim of a variety of discriminations that are generally accepted as a fact of life.

• History of divisive ethnic identities shows it’s time Nigeria admits its role in enforcing them
  19 April, by siawi3

  Centuries of normalised anti-blackness have unsurprisingly resulted in skin bleaching and hair straightening practices. These are still common on the continent. There is a need to take into account the role of every sphere of Nigerian society in creation of mutually exclusive identities that deny the legitimacy and existence of the “other”. A process like this could redeem Africa from inferior standards and complexes that justify behaviour like corruption and violence. But, crucially, African countries like Nigeria must start this process by identifying and acknowledging their own complicity in coloniality. This would require a shift in the concentration of blame and faultfinding on external forces.

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