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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Contributor(s): Bennoune, Karima (Author)
ISBN: 0393081583     ISBN-13: 9780393081589
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $25.16  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Human Rights
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- Religion | Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
Dewey: 297.090
LCCN: 2013009639
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.65 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
 
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In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a "dark corner" by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cissé produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls. In Algeria, publisher Omar Belhouchet and his journalists struggled to put out their paper, El Watan (The Nation), the same night that a 1996 jihadist bombing devastated their offices and killed eighteen of their colleagues. In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abdirizak Bihi organized a Ramadan basketball tournament among Somali refugees to counter the influence of Al Shabaab. From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and beyond, these trailblazers often risked death to combat the rising tide of fundamentalism within their own countries.

But this global community of writers, artists, doctors, musicians, museum curators, lawyers, activists, and educators of Muslim heritage remains largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other.

A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.


Contributor Bio(s): Bennoune, Karima: - Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California-Davis School of Law. She grew up in Algeria and the United States and now lives in northern California.