Fundamentalism(s): Resources
for concerned citizens everywhere
An ongoing compilation
about use of religion, culture, ethnicity, nationalism and nativism by fundamentalists
and those on the far right
[contains material both in English and French]
Last updated on February 7, 2005 | Maintained by the
South Asia Counter
Information Project
Religious right fights science for the heart of
America
-- Suzanne Goldenberg (February 7, 2005)
Pakistan: Obscurant prescriptions
-- Editorial, Dawn (5 February 2005)
Pakistan: MMA . . . seeks law against music, women's photos in ads
-- Waseem Ahmed (4 February 2005)
Where is Malaysia's 'moderate Islam' project going?
-- Farish A Noor (29 January 2005)
Fundamental union
When it comes to defining family values, conservative Christians and Muslims are united against liberal secularists, writes Brian Whitaker (January 25, 2005)
How US fundamentalism survived (January 19, 2004)
Bangladesh fatwa over women's swimming (December 2, 2004)
Secularists Be Warned
Christlike Kerry Roams Spiritual Universe
--Lenni Brenner (November 1, 2004)
The Fight Over Gay Rights
--James Graff (October 24, 2004)
Follow the Money
--Esther Kaplan (October 14, 2004)
The Crusade Against Evolution
--Evan Ratliff (October 2004)
Peddling the veil
--Razi Azmi (September 16, 2004)
Leaning to the right
July 07 2004
UK: Find faith in diversity
Religion and education don't mix. Denominational schools are simply indoctrinating kids
--David Aaronovitch (June 13, 2004)
'Hinduness' with vengeance: Schools offer Indians way out of poverty, lessons in religious bias
--Jehangir Pocha (April 16, 2004)
Bangladesh: When secular forces pave the fundamentalists' way
-- Shahid Alam (April 13, 2004)
Contre la révision de la loi de 1905
-- Henri Pena-Ruiz (article paru dans Regards sur l'actualite No. 208, fevrier 2004)
Communal Darkness in Shining India
-- Asghar Ali Engineer (Feb 28, 2004)
Pakistan: Ministry of Education-II
--Dr Farrukh Saleem (December 21, 2003)
Pakistan: Ministry of Education-I
--Dr Farrukh Saleem (December 14, 2003)
Art, Music Provoke Islamists on Pakistan Campuses
--Amir Zia (Dec 1, 2003)
Telling the Truth, Facing the Whip
-- Mansour Al Nogaidan (November 28, 2003)
Devoiler Tariq Ramadan
--Benamar Médiène (November 27, 2003)
Economic Distress and Religious Intensity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis
--Daniel L. Chen (November 21, 2003)
The great divide
In NWFP a lot of women are suffering due to an unreasonable ban put by Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) - restricting male doctors and technicians from carrying out ultrasound examinations and using electrocardiographs (ECG) on female patients
-- Mohammed Shehzad (November 11, 2003)
Une altermondialisation égalitaire, féministe et laïque est-elle possible avec Tariq Ramadan ?
-- Collectif féministe pour une altermondialisation laïque (November 2003)
Playing God
--Suzanne Goldenberg (November 4, 2003)
[Loi du 9 décembre 1905 - Loi concernant la séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat
France: Le texte de la loi de 1905]
Sporting Heroic Bodies In a Christian Nation-at-War
--Claudia Schippert (Fall 2003)
Entretien avec Chahdortt Djavann
--Par Ilana Moryoussef (24 Oct. 2003)
Pakistan: Focus on renewed debate over faith-based laws
--irinnews.org (23 Oct. 2003)
The Evolution of 'Jihad' in Islamist Political Discourse
--Farish A. Noor
Islamic plan unveiled for Malaysia
-- BBC News (12 November, 2003)
Text of 'The Islamic State Document' by the Islamic Party of Malaysia (13 November 2003)
Dress-code gangs beat women
--news report on Zanzibar (October, 2003)
Religious Revival and the Rise of the New Right
--John Horvath (August 16, 2003)
A trap for Muslim women in Europe
--Bruce Bawer (June 27, 2003)
Quetta and Surplus Jihadis
-- Dr Farrukh Saleem (July 2003)
Rape and torture empties the villages [in Bangladesh]
-- John Vidal (July 21, 2003)
Evangelicals have become this century's witch burners
--Giles Fraser July 14 2003
Professors fight to keep Swift on syllabus as Pakistan's Islamists target 'vulgar' classics
--Rory McCarthy (July 10 2003)
Une France plurielle... ou éclatée ?
--Un débat entre Elisabeth Badinter et Alain Touraine (June, 19 2003)
Overlooked Danger: The Security and Rights Implications of Hindu Nationalism in India
-- Smita Narula
Pakistan is losing the fight against fundamentalism
-- Isabel Hilton (May 2003)
Religious Violence, Extremism and Fundamentalisms
-- Tape Transcript of Panel at Harvard Divinity Scohool (May 2, 2003)
Hindu and Muslim anger at Valentine's
Religious activists in India and Pakistan protest at Valentine's Day celebrations, saying they are an affront to Hinduism and Islam.
( February 11, 2003)
The Other Face of Fanaticism
--by Pankaj Mishra (2003)
The Political Culture of Fascism
--Jairus Banaji (Sept. 2002)
Fascism
--Roger Griffin
Hate Speech in Rwanda: The Road to Genocide
--William A. Schabas
British debate deepens on faith-based schools
--Barry James (2002)
An unholy alliance? Racism, religion and communalism
--Arun Kundnani (30 July 2002)
Freedom to hate, freedom to harm
-- Julian Borger (May 29, 2002)
The "Talibanization" of Bangladesh
-- Ruth Baldwin, USA (May 18, 2002)
Religion keeps couples apart
-- Harit Mehta (May 05, 2002)
Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood
--Salman Rushdie (March 9, 2002)
'Fascism': An ex-paradigm
-- Roger Griffin
Xenophobia: A Catalyst of Hate Speech in Slovakia and Slovenia
-- Andrej S kolkay
"introduction" in: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
-- Mahmood Mamdani (2001)
Cover up or else, Kashmir women told
-- CNN( August 29, 2001)
Between God, Ethnicity, And Country: An Approach To The Study Of Transnational Religion
--Peggy Levitt (July 2001)
Outrage at Taleban's Hindu dress code
-- BBC News (May 2001)
How ethnic is 'ethnic cleansing'?
-- Jack Goody (NLR, January - February 2001)
Money, Sex And God: The Erotic Logic of Religious Nationalism?
--Roger Friedland (2001)
The threat of fascism in Austria'
--Rick Kuhn, Monthly Review 52 (2) June 2000 pp. 21-35
Liberal Face, Hot Heads
The Hindu fundamentalist threat to India is growing
--Sanjay Kapoor (March 2000)
Wide-ranging Implications of the Growing Power of Religious Orthodoxy in Israel
-- Dr. Edna Homa Hunt
Italyís post-fascists bid for respectability
--Paolo Raffone (1998)
Secularism and the construction of Muslimness: a personal account from Algeria
--Mahl (1996)
Birth, nationalism and war
--Stasa Zajovic (1995)
Secularism, Judaism and the Zionist dilemma
--Nira Yuval-Davis. (1992)
Traditionalist' Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs
--Barbara Metcalf
Postmodern Obscurantism and 'The Muslim Question'
--Aziz al Azmeh
"Terror in the Name of the Lord"
-- Fredrick Clarkson in Ms Magazine.
The Fundamentalism Project
--Contents of the five volumes of The Fundamentalism Project.
Fascinating Fascism
--Susan Sontag (1975)
Challenging fundamentalist politics (& liberal
ideas of accomodation and inclusiveness that give space to fundamentalists)
MANIFESTE
LAìQUE, FEMINISTE ET REPUBLICAIN (12 janvier
2005)
Communiqué (17.12.03) par Fédération des associations de Culture
Berbère de France
A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat
A report by the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat (December 10, 2003)
Missive missile at Saraswati vandana
(November, 2003)
The dirty D-word
by Kenan Malik
(October 29 2003)
Religious Leader Who Recommend Wife-Beating Sued
Spanish women's groups, concerned about violence against immigrant women, press charges
against a Saudi-born imam who wrote a book that they charge condones violence against
women. by Jerome Socolovsky (September 2003)
IHEU
Opposes Sharia in Pakistan's NWFP
(4 June 2003)
Pour une loi interdisant
le port de signes religieux
ou de discrimination à l'école publique
par Catherine Kintzler, Pierre-André
Taguieff et. al. (May 2003)
L'APPEL DE MAI 2003
Appel aux citoyens musulmans de France épris de paix, de justice, de liberté
et de laïcité par Mouvement des musulmans
laïques de France (May 2003)
We
Must Rely on Ourselves, Fight for Abortion Rights, & Stop the Anti-Women Thugs! by Refuse & Resist! (leaflet in PDF)
'Creationism' in schools attacked
Religious fundamentalism should not be allowed to damage science teaching, says the
Liberal Democrat education spokesman.
(March 31, 2002)
The Foreign Exchange
of Hate
(An investigation into the American funding of Hindutva)
by Sabrang Communications
and SACW
Communalism and Religious
Fundamentalism in India: A Resource File
by Harsh Kapoor [A PDF file]
Against
multiculturalism
by Kenan Malik
On
Fundamentalism
by Madalyn Murry O'Hair (1986)
Reasons
for Opposing Faith-based Schools
in the UK
Useful Links:
Catholics
For a Free Choice
http://www.cath4choice.org/
The See Change
Campaign to get the Vatican out of the UN, its a religion not a country
http://www.seechange.org/
Campaign
to to Stop Funding Hate
http://www.stopfundinghate.org
Awaaz South Asia
http://www.awaazsa.org
Women Living Under
Muslim Laws
http://www.wluml.org
No To Political Islam
http://www.ntpi.org
IHEU
http://www.iheu.org
Ni
Putes, Ni soumises
Mouvement
des Maghrebins Laïques de France
http://www.maghrebins-laiques.fr.st/
Sketch of a European Charter for the protection of secular rights
--Mouvement "Europe & Laïcité"
Excellent
website by secular feminists in France
[text in French only]
http://www.prochoix.org/
A website
on the Bangladeshi Islamist operation
http://jamatepislami.com/
Ras l'Front!
http://www.globenet.org/RLF/
An Anti
Fascist web site
http://www.anti-fascism.org/
Unite Against Fascism (UK)
Books:
With God On Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House
by Esther Kaplan
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton
Alfred A. Knopf: Random House
Due/Published April 2004, 336 pages, ISBN 1400040949 [Read Book Review by Terry Eagleton]
Preachers of Hate: The Rise of the Far Right
by Angus Roxburgh
320pp, Gibson Square [Read Book Review by David Lammy]
Citical theory of the Family
by Mark Poster
Khaki shorts and saffron flags: a critique of the Hindu right
by Tapan Basu, Et al.
Orient Longman, Hyderabad 1993
Hitler's priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan myth, and neo-Nazism.
by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
New Delhi, India; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Marianne et le Prophète: L'Islam dans la France laïque
by Soheib Bencheikh
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1998. 282 pp
Mohamed Sifaoui
La France malade de l'islamisme
Menaces terroristes sur l'Hexagone
ISBN n° 2 74910 027 5
Paris: Le cherche midi, 240 pages
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky
London: Pluto Press
Useful Readings on Fascism:
Mussolini 1933 by Diego Rivera
Mass Psychology of Fascism
by Wilhelm Reich
The Authoritarian Personality
by Theodore Adorno
Anti
Semitism and Fascist Propaganda
by Theodore Adorno
The
Development of Fascism
by Antonio Gramsci (1921)
"Fascism-What
it is and How to Fight it.?"
by Leon Trotsky (1930-32)
Forturoff Video Archive for Holocaust testimonies at Yale University
Caprotti on Reich, Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (May 2003)
Fascism and Popular Memory
by Luisa Passerini
Fascism in Spain 1923-1977
by Stanley G. Payne. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
Fascism: Theory and Practice
by Dave Renton Pluto, London 1999
The coming of Austran Fascism
by Kitchen, Martin Croom Helm, London, 1980
Pink Triangle Pages (Gay and Lesbian experience during WWII)
True catholic womanhood. Gender ideology in Franco's Spain
by Aurora G. Morcillo
Dekalb, Northern Illinois University Press, 2000
How fascism ruled women. Italy, 1922 - 1945
by Victoria De Grazia
University of California Press, 1992
Le donne nel regime fascista, Venezia, Marsilio, 1993)
Mothers in the Fatherland. Women, the family and Nazi politics
by Claudia Koonz | St. Martin Press, New York, 1986
Physical education
and sporting activity for women during the fascist era
by Gigliola Gori | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (November 2000)
Other releveant readings on fascist ideas elsewhere:
"Intellectuals and Fascism in Early Showa Japan," by Miles Fletche; and "Fascism and the History of Pre-War Japan: The Failure of a Concept" by Peter Duus and Daniel Okimoto. All are in Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, Nov. 1979).
Hindutva's Foreign Tie-Ups In The 1930's: Archival Evidence by Marzia Casolari
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