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• There Is No Such Thing as a Plain Reading of the Bible
  27 July 2020, by siawi3

  By definition, all sacred texts are interpreted and reinterpreted throughout history.

• Algérie-France : La prise de position d’un fils de harki en faveur de la reconnaissance du passé colonial et de la panthéonisation de Gisèle Halimi
  21 septembre 2022, par siawi3

  Je suis fils de harki, et j’appelle toutes les filles et fils de harkis à se joindre à moi afin que nous lancions les bases d’un dialogue avec l’Algérie, pays de nos ancêtres millénaires, afin de recréer ou de retrouver les liens familiaux déchirés par 132 ans de colonisation et 50 ans d’exil.

• India: Nehruvian Secularism: A Critical Appraisal
  14 December 2021, by siawi3

  Despite a chequered legacy, Nehru’s secularism must be remembered and celebrated and defended in times when his name is being served to become an anathema for the average Indian. But in doing so the secular-progressive forces must keep in mind that the time has come to graduate from a Nehruvian minimalist to a maximalist notion of secularism in India.

• The Aura of Bhagat Singh
  26 March 2022, by siawi3

  Without a shadow of doubt, Bhagat Singh occupies a special place in the pantheon of British era revolutionaries who were not enthused by Mahatma Gandhi. Innumerable young revolutionaries suffered death, brutal torture and long years of imprisonment.

• The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
  6 January 2022, by siawi3

  The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society.

• India: Bhagat Singh: An Unsung Hero of Political Journalism
  26 March 2022, by siawi3

  Despite being a widely celebrated figure in India’s protracted freedom struggle, Bhagat Singh’s role as a fearless and pioneering journalist at the time is often overlooked.

• USA: Where Will This Political Violence Lead? Look to the 1850s.
  7 November 2022, by siawi3

  If history is a guidepost, we are on the precipice of dangerous future in which politics devolves into a contest of force rather than ideas. That’s a future everyone should want to avoid.

• Africa: History class
  2 December 2020, by siawi3

  What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa? “There is a real tension between the importance of addressing the pain that comes from the history people of African descent have faced of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and addressing issues of inequality across time and space. This tension can be a source of fruitful exploration. The histories of enslavement, colonization, and racism are not “out there” but right here; one cannot understand the United States or France any more than Nigeria or South Africa without a focus on these subjects.”

• India: Bhagat Singh and Savarkar, Two Petitions that Tell Us the Difference Between Hind and Hindutva
  26 March 2022, by siawi3

  “We wanted to point out that according to the verdict of your court we had waged war and were therefore war prisoners. And we claim to be treated as such, i.e., we claim to be shot dead instead of to be hanged.”

• Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For
  7 November 2022, by siawi3

  This hatred and distrust of anything foreign, repression of creative impulses, punishing of free speculation, celebration of authoritarian force, denigration of women, denigration of foreigners, denigration of anyone queer or other, fear of any cultural trends that didn’t occur within a very narrow swathe of white western modern Christianity – this is not my church.

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