OT: Mahmood Mamdani
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The Monitor (Kampala)
OPINION
September 2, 2004
Posted to the web September 2, 2004
Solomon Bareebe Rukuuka
Kampala
Prof. Mahmood Mamdani in his book, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: An African
Perspective, disagrees with those who argue that the causes of
terrorism are cultural and he argues that the causes of terrorism
worldwide are political other than religious.
"I want to suggest that we turn the cultural theory of politics on its
head. Rather than see this politics as the outcome of an archaic
culture, I suggest we see neither the culture not the politics as
archaic, but both as very contemporary outcomes of equally
contemporary conditions, relations and conflicts. Instead of
dismissing history and politics as does culture talk, I suggest we
place cultural debates in historical and political contexts. Terrorism
is not a cultural residue in modern politics. Rather, terrorism is a
modern construction."
Mahmood Mamdani
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