Kirk was a controversial figure, but more than anything else, he was a useful tool to the far right, in life and now in death. His murder will be used to sanitise his deceitful ideas and more insidiously, to demand more censorship, more police powers, and more crackdowns. The only people who benefit from his murder are his own base.
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Hi I’m Mina, a librarian, a reader, an indoor plant enthusiast and now a blogger.
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor – Review
It would be unfair to suggest that the entirety of this book is awful, far from it. It just needed the author to sit with someone to discuss his views towards Muslims, and ask if they were the lingering consequence of colonialism or more recently developed ideas from the racist BJP party, currently governing India.
When Only God Can See -The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners by Walaa Quisay and Asim Qureshi – Review
At a time where more and more people are being arrested for their political beliefs, many of whom are Muslims, this book is an important illustration of what life behind bars entails. The level of psychological warfare these people have to navigate, even before being charged with any offense is bewildering. Using a prisoner’s faith as a weapon against them and the degrading, humiliating and often illegal methods that are employed to get confessions is astounding. How are we allowing these prisons and these systems to operate in spaces we call humane. How can we raise children in a world that treats humans in ways that most of us would never even think to treat an animal?
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