The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror discussion

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Add to My Calendar Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:00am

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CCR is proud to co-sponsor an important discussion with Arun Kundnani organized by Asian American Writers Workshop about his new book The Muslims are Coming!

The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy.” Undercover officers and informants have spied on 30 mosques in New York alone, and counter-terrorism agents have a file on every Moroccan taxi driver in the city. Based on several years of research and reportage from Texas and New York to Yorkshire, The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani is the first comprehensive critique of counter-radicalization strategies, examining how these debates have been transformed by the embrace of a narrowly configured and ill-conceived anti-extremism.

Arun Kundnani writes about race, Islamophobia, political violence, and surveillance. Born and bred in London, he moved to New York in 2010 on a fellowship with the Open Society  Foundations and now lives in Harlem. He is the author of The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain, which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year in 2007. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University, holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University, and teaches at New York University.

Seats are limited! Reserve yours here.

What: No Freedom for the Enemy discussion of The Muslims are Coming! by Arun Kundnani
When: Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 7:00pm
Where: Asian American Writers' Workshop, 112 W 27th Street, 6th floor

Co-sponsored by Center for Constitutional Rights, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)

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March 13, 2014