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Mahmood Mamdani on the Cold War, Political Islam, and the Roots of Terrorism (father of NYC's future mayor)
Asia Society ^

Posted on 06/25/2025 9:07:04 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Could you explain the origins of the title, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim? Is it not the case that the US - or the West generally - should be supporting moderate, secular forces within the Muslim world to counteract extremist, fundamentalist currents?

MAMDANI: Even when Bush speaks of "good" Muslims and "bad" Muslims, what he means by "good" Muslims is really pro-American Muslims and by "bad" Muslims he means anti-American Muslims. Once you recognize that, then it is no longer puzzling why good Muslims are becoming bad Muslims at such a rapid rate. You can actually begin to think through that development. If, however, you think of "good" and "bad" Muslims in cultural terms, it is mind-boggling that in one week, you can have a whole crop of "bad" Muslims - cultural changes do not usually happen with such rapidity! But if you have the aerial bombing of Falluja and the targeting of civilian populations accused of hosting "bad" Muslims, then you harvest an entire yield of bad Muslims at the end of the day, and the whole phenomenon becomes slightly less puzzling.

This is connected to my claim that political identities are not reducible to cultural identities. Political Islam, especially radical political Islam, and even more so, the terrorist wing in radical political Islam, did not emerge from conservative, religious currents, but on the contrary, from a secular intelligentsia. In other words, its preoccupation is this-worldly, it is about power in this world. To take only the most obvious example: I am not aware of anyone who thinks of bin Laden as a theologian; he is a political strategist and is conceived of in precisely such terms. Of course, part of his strategy is employing a particular language through which he addresses specific audiences.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: ericadams; hamas; hezbollah; iran; mamdani; mayor; mullahloversonfr; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; scottstringer; zohranmamdani
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To: AlaskaErik

“I can’t wait for this guy to become mayor!”

.....the New York equivalent of London mayor Sadiq Khan.


21 posted on 06/25/2025 10:28:13 AM PDT by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Once roaches get in you can’t get rid of them.


22 posted on 06/25/2025 10:32:54 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: PGR88; Ann Archy
Smells like the deep state hologram Obama, all over again.

Yeah, a real family affair.

https://asiasociety.org/john-d-rockefeller-3rd-need-mutual-understanding-and-respect-between-east-and-west"

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/327876/senator-rockefeller-endorses-barack-obama

The story within that Rockefeller/Obama connection story

https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/08/23/obama-nelson-rockefeller-1976-middle-finger-binghamton/2690043/

23 posted on 06/25/2025 10:42:47 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: Red Badger

Or to put it another way - “Demographics is destiny”.

Or to put it another way...

“You only own that which you are WILLING AND ABLE to defend using whatever means at your disposal.”

That applies to individuals as well as societies.


24 posted on 06/25/2025 10:50:23 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: VideoDoctor

There are a lot of groups in NYC that will make life hard for this Mayor wannabe.


25 posted on 06/25/2025 10:57:15 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No such thing as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ muslim, they are all evil


26 posted on 06/25/2025 11:21:31 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Straight from Columbia University where he is a professor>>> He researches colonialism but never Muslim colonialism. So he’s just another leftist grievance fraud.
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Mahmood Mamdani

Research Interests
Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism Empires, States, Sovereignties Institutions, Law, Governmentality

Biography
Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government. He was also professor and executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (2010-2022) in Kampala, where he established an inter-disciplinary doctoral program in Social Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 and specializes in the study of colonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation. His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, the history and theory of human rights, and the politics of knowledge production. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Mamdani was a professor at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania (1973–1979), Makerere University in Uganda (1980–1993), and the University of Cape Town (1996–1999).

He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being listed as one of the “Top 20 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy (US) and Prospect (UK) magazine in 2008. In 2021, he was nominated Among ‘The World’s Top 50 Thinkers’ by Prospect Magazine, UK.

His latest work, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, Harvard, 2020, was shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, 2021, and as “World History Finalist” by Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards)

From 1998 to 2002, he served as President of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa). His essays have appeared in the New Left Review and the London Review of books, among other journals.

He teaches courses on: Major Debates in the Study of Africa; the Modern State and the Colonial Subject; the Cold War and the Third World; the Theory, History, and Practice of Human Rights; and Civil Wars and the State in Africa.

Mamdani’s books include Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2009); Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror (2004); When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda (2001); Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996), which was awarded the Herskovitz Prize of the African Studies Association; Politics and Class Formation in Uganda (1976); From Citizen to Refugee(1973); and The Myth of Population Control: Family, Class and Caste in an Indian Village (1972).
https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/mahmood-mamdani


27 posted on 06/25/2025 11:56:56 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: 100%FEDUP
"Once roaches get in you can’t get rid of them."

The only way is to seal off rooms and set off a roach bomb

Hot Shot Fogger Safety at Martha Prine blog

28 posted on 06/25/2025 12:01:54 PM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Islam a reigion that bows to a desert warloard that married a 9 year old girl?.


29 posted on 06/25/2025 12:41:06 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dennisw

That ship has sailed and sank.


30 posted on 06/25/2025 1:23:51 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: Vaduz

Actually she was 6. Mo was such a gentleman he waited until she was 9 to consummate the marriage.


31 posted on 06/25/2025 2:48:49 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

So, a republican makes one misstep or misspeaks, and his career is finished, and you have this POS and democrats love him? Any more proof we can’t live with these people?


32 posted on 06/25/2025 2:52:03 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: stevio

It’s Leftist domination of culture and media that’s been going on for decades.


33 posted on 06/25/2025 2:54:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All

Political / social / economic jihad. The Quranic Concept of War - pp.115/16

Thanks to every poster. Islam awareness BUMP!


34 posted on 06/25/2025 3:05:07 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All

https://patriots.win/p/19BZbg187c


35 posted on 06/25/2025 3:23:44 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: stevio

The double standards mean any conservative entering the fray has to work harder, communicate way more, fight harder, while also treading more carefully that the slightest misstep or slip of the tongue leads to immediate social cancellation...

As Jesus said, be as wise as a snake and as harmless as a dove...


36 posted on 06/25/2025 3:27:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: allblues

“Actually she was 6. Mo was such a gentleman he waited until she was 9 to consummate the marriage.”

From her age 6-9 dirty ol bastard Mo had to be content with “thighing” Aisha. So some claim. AI denies this.
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What is “thighing”?
“Thighing” refers to a non-penetrative sexual act where the penis is placed between the thighs of another person, often mentioned in discussions about sexual relations with prepubescent girls in some fatwas and polemical literature.


37 posted on 06/25/2025 5:10:30 PM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: allblues

No wonder the have no problem with raping kids a sick lot at best.

Thanks for info


38 posted on 06/26/2025 4:59:35 AM PDT by Vaduz
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