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WEBINAR: Reflecting on 20+ years of the securitisation of Islam and Muslims

What is the place of Islam in the Australian imaginary, given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?

INTERVIEW: Terrorism, Muslimness and Islamophobia – Counterterrorism’s impact on Muslim communities

  • Dr Rizwaan Sabir,

The moment I was accused of being a terrorist, my identity as a Muslim took precedence over everything else.

The managed securitisation of Malay-Muslims in Singapore

  • Julius Mok,

The state has a vision of Singapore where each ‘race’ plays its part to maintain what it sees as the nation’s fragile status.

Securitisation, nationalism and democracy: The banning of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia

  • Dr Christian Harijanto and Professor Farida Fozdar,

How HTI was constructed as an existential threat and banned using a process beyond the normal systems of democracy.

How the hyper-securitisation of Muslims in Malaysia is dividing society

  • Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Aslam Abd Jalil,

The division between Muslims and non-Muslims is widening and threatens Malaysia’s delicate form of multiculturalism.

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