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Are lynchings apolitical?
Lynchings destroy the notion of community. Each act of violence renders the subsequent act of violence inevitable and more heinous. We should be worried about these events, and not relegate them to ‘apolitical’ acts of disciplinary violence aimed at ‘alleged criminals’. Lynchings are predominantly discipline and punish projects, directed at policing the other.
Proudly speaking out on behalf of “terrorists” – Or the Forever War and its silences
As hundreds of thousands of Pushtun speak out and march against the violence of the Pakistani state, and that of its imperial backers, some pieces I wrote earlier against the brutalization and demonization of the Pushtuns, and against the indiscriminate and brutal wars we have inflicted upon them.