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• Book Review: "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject"

  "...Mahmood sets up an antinomy of her own that erases a broad range of complex historical struggles and alliances. She obliges the reader to choose between a western liberal feminism that has always been more or less associated with imperial interventions, and a recent Islamic piety movement that, according to Mahmood herself, is uninterested in challenging, indeed supports, patriarchal forms of oppression. But are these really the only positions available to progressive leftists, as she implies?"

  tags: book review books egypt islam feminism

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/235/book-review_politics-of-piety_the-islamic-revival-and-the-feminist-subject">Book Review: "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject"</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">"...Mahmood sets up an antinomy of her own that erases a broad range of complex historical struggles and alliances. She obliges the reader to choose between a western liberal feminism that has always been more or less associated with imperial interventions, and a recent Islamic piety movement that, according to Mahmood herself, is uninterested in challenging, indeed supports, patriarchal forms of oppression. But are these really the only positions available to progressive leftists, as she implies?"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/book review">book review</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/books">books</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/egypt">egypt</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islam">islam</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/feminism">feminism</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>

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• Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire | Left Turn - Notes from the Global Intifada

  "Knowledge production, in other words, is never disinterested. It opens particular options while foreclosing others. In Pakistan’s case, journalists and analysts regularly elide the links among US foreign policy, the policies of successive Pakistani governments to use religion for political ends, and the hold of the Pakistani Army over the country. This offers only the most unsophisticated of explanations for the country’s ills—and pitiless, vulgar solutions."

  tags: pakistan media imperialism

• Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque

  The latest in this bizarre saga of the FBI spying on Muslims in Southern California and elsewhere in the US.

  tags: islamophobia

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.leftturn.org/Covering-Pakistan">Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire | Left Turn - Notes from the Global Intifada</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">"Knowledge production, in other words, is never disinterested. It opens particular options while foreclosing others. In Pakistan’s case, journalists and analysts regularly elide the links among US foreign policy, the policies of successive Pakistani governments to use religion for political ends, and the hold of the Pakistani Army over the country. This offers only the most unsophisticated of explanations for the country’s ills—and pitiless, vulgar solutions."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/pakistan">pakistan</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/media">media</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403710.html?sid=ST2010120404317">Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">The latest in this bizarre saga of the FBI spying on Muslims in Southern California and elsewhere in the US.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islamophobia">islamophobia</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>

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• Bombings Hit Atomic Experts in Iran Streets - NYTimes.com

  Latest US/Israeli aggression against Iran: assassinating scientists. Imagine the outcry if Iran sent assassins to murder American nuclear scientists. This is terrorism, pure and simple.

  tags: iran imperialism

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/world/middleeast/30tehran.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2">Bombings Hit Atomic Experts in Iran Streets - NYTimes.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Latest US/Israeli aggression against Iran: assassinating scientists. Imagine the outcry if Iran sent assassins to murder American nuclear scientists. This is terrorism, pure and simple.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/iran">iran</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>