The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers

Reading desire: from empathy to estrangement, from enlightenment to implication

“…My students' desire for instrumental knowledge about Iranian culture and history sprang not simply from feminist Orientalist imaginaries (Bahramitash, 2005b) and the moral panic of war, or solely from modalities of 'reading for enlightenment' latent within any reading engagement across social difference, but also from the particular anxieties and preoccupations of pre-service teachers. Teacher education programmes consistently promote knowledge as content to be mastered and taught, or as the basis 'to understand and teach children of different cultures' (class notes, September 27, 2005; see also Britzman, 1998).…”

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“…There are several articles and scholars in favour of "offensive Jihād", some discussed by Ali and Rehman who cited the arguments of Mushkat, Khadduri, and Busuttil. Khadduri 24 (discussed by Al-Dawoody) , made some important historical points when discussing Islamic 25 jurisprudence and siyar. Al-Dawoody acknowledges that according to great scholars such as Abu Hanifah and al-Shaybani, their discourse on Jihād was made on the assumption that there was a constant state of war-possibly drawing from the notion developed by Islamic jurists, of Dar al Islam and Dar al Harb, and how non-Muslim land was all referred to as 'abode of war' -a term attributed to the rest of the world, with a few exceptions.…”

“…In an essay, Nussbaum reviews the tension between what is dubbed the 'Communitarian Nietzschians' and 'Universalist Kantians', stating that the former was "based less on reason and more on communal solidarity, less on principle and more on affiliation, less on optimism for progress than on a sober acknowledgment of human finitude." This attitude is echoed in 24 McIntyre's rejection of morality and universality on the terms of separating morality less as an absolute feeling or natural ideology, but an act to justify actions or attitudes. This borderlines 25 Schmitt's ideological standpoint on seeing liberal ideology as disguised manipulation in the cover of morality.…”

Veiled Politics: Muslim Women’s Visibility and Their Use in European Countries’ Political Life

“…There is an abundant literature on the subject [8][9][10][11][12]: its authors, who, interestingly enough, are Muslim themselves, are very critical of this process and of the women who comply with the stereotype of the "poor Muslim woman" and reinforce it. The women in question are mostly authors of (pseudo)autobiographies or sensational journalism in which they use the troubles they experienced as a universal claim that Islam is irreconcilable with basic women's rights.…”