From almost the very beginning of this incredibly insightful book into the political meanings of the hijab/niqab (condensed into a veil for ease), we are told by Dr Sahar Ghumkhor:โI refuse to answer the question.โ [p.viii] What is the question she is refusing to answer? The one that is perhaps most obviously asked a Muslim…
Throughout history, there are numerous examples of how the divide-and-conquer tactic has been used as a precursor to total destruction. We know that much of the science of anthropology was born in genocide โ to meet the need of their empires to understand a people, and ultimately to destroy them. I think this is perhaps…