By Dr Majid khan Hindutva is on the rise globally, especially since 2014, when Modi came into power in India. Subsequently, after this, we have seen Hindutva is one of India’s largest export to the entire world by the Modi regime. During the last few weeks, people in United Kingdom have seen Hindutva’s fruits (brutality)...
New York (DW): Author Salman Rushdie, who has lived under death threats due to his writing, has reportedly been attacked on stage during an event in New York. A man was arrested after allegedly rushing the stage and attacking him, according to witnesses at the event. Images shared by attendees appeared to show Rushdie being...
By Dr Majid Khan Nathan Roger argues in his book Image Warfare in War on Terror that the mass media system has been shifted to a rhizomatic (grows horizontally under the ground) media system. That system relates to deterritorialized (take the control of) circulations and weaponization of images and this has resulted the paradigm shift...
By Dr Majid Khan Since the West started colonization the other regions of the world, literary work from Western writers also came out however, in such books the people of the East were depicted as downgraded or subhuman. Edward Said, a Palestinian intellectual, literary theorist, and historian of the colonial narrative – said explained how...
By Dr Majid Khan Dr Mughees Sheikh writes in his doctoral thesis, “After the end of the Cold War, Islam will be an eminent ‘threat candidate’ for the US media”. Mughees Sheikh’s findings in 1992 did predict the inception of a socio-political and media discourse that we now call Islamophobia. But Islamophobia comes into the...
Cairo (By Special correspondent): In a webinar organised by Islamic Research Complex, Cairo (Egypt) different scholars from the Muslim world expressed grave concern about converting poor African Muslims to Christianity. Scholars argued that its alarming for the whole Muslim nation that such practice is being done. Leading scholars of the Muslim world including, Dr Yasser...