Subject: September 11th. attacks roots and consequence
Date: Thursday 11th Sept. , 19:00
Presented by: Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, Mona Tajali, Roksana Bahramitash
Place: Cafe Culturel SABA, 5124 Sherbrook Ouest, Montreal, QC
Metro: Vendome
Bus: 24 directly from Down town
17 Décarie, 37 Jolicoeur, 90 Saint-Jacques,102 Somerled, 104 Cavendish, 105 Sherbrooke, 124 Victoria
This session 9/11 we will talk about the 11th September attacks of 2001 , its roots and consequences.
We try to cover most of the aspects of this attacks by several talks (Eaxh around 10-20 min.) and a movie.
Kianoosh Hashemzadeh, will start the session.Her talk will include an overview of the chain-of-events of 9/11,
followed by a brief summary of "conspiracy" theories which offer different ides of how this event "actually" happened.
Mona Tajali, will talk about the terrorism in the Middle East and looked at the causes that the youth joins such fundamentalist groups, and their links to the Wahhabi School of thought, and the fact that most members are born and raised in the West.
Roksana Bahramitash,PhD ,will talk about the consequences of this attacks.She is going to be discussing her paper:
The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers,"Critique: Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.14, No 2, 223-237, Summer 2005. Her paper focuses on how, due (in part) to the environment created post-9/11, Muslim women have been portrayed in problematic ways. She looks at two American bestsellers: Reading Lolita in Tehran and Nine Parts of Desire.
At the end we will watch a short Movie about 9/11 and coninue the session with discussions.
2 comments:
Although in the aftermath of September 11 attacks, linkages were made between the Islamic concept of Jihad and terrorism, when one analyzes classical Islamic discourse, much emphasis is placed on "struggle in the way of God, to establish justice, without exceeding the limits of justice". It was not until the eighteenth century when puritan radicals rose as a response to colonialism and corruptness, that violence in Islam was born (Wahabbism). Such extremist groups exist until today, which recruit fanatical westernized Muslim youths, to return to the "pure" Islam that is threatened from Globalization and US hegemony.
Sources: Theology of Power: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer221/221_abu_el_fadl.html and
Oliver Roy: http://www.isim.nl/files/Review_15/Review_15-6.pdf
Question: As Muslims or Middle Easterners living in the West, what is our role in combating fundamentalism in Islam?
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