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Max Farrar

Max Farrar

radical citizen, sociologist, grandfather

Five global challenges: how might Hizmet respond?

By Max Farrar on August 12, 2016

Hizmet, the social movement inspired by the neo-Sufi thinker Fetullah Gülen, is currently being dismembered by the autocratic president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He accuses Gülen of ordering a coup attempt on 15th July 2016, saying it was was led by Hizmet members in the army. This is strenuously denied by Gülen and Hizmet, […]

Posted in blog, engagement, public sociology, Public talks | Tagged climate change, Fetullah Gülen, Hizmet, migration, social movements, social solidarity, violence, wealth income inequality | Leave a response

Opposing terrorism

By Max Farrar on December 9, 2015

I wrote this article with Dr Rumana Hashem, prompted both by the death threats issued against Rumana, a Bangladeshi-born Muslim academic at a British University, and the disagreement I had earlier (supported by Rumana and other feminists) with British academics who support the organisation called Cage. It forms part of my ongoing investigations into Islamism, […]

Posted in blog, journalism and media, writing | Tagged Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, terrorism | Leave a response

UeL Academic on Jihadi Hit List

By Max Farrar on October 4, 2015

This is so important that I’m uploading a PDF of the article in the Independent on Sunday last week explaining the abominable actions of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). The ABT have already murdered several people simply for their rationalist, secularist views.  These violent Islamists have now issued a list of people they intend to kill, including […]

Posted in blog | Tagged Islamism, jihadis, terrorism, violence | Leave a response

Reflections on the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995

By Max Farrar on July 13, 2015

Qari Asim MBE, the Chief Imam of Makkah Mosque in Leeds, asked me to contribute to the community Iftar on 12th July 2015 which was dedicated to remembering the murder of 8,000 or so Muslim men and boys in Bosnia twenty years ago. I was given five minutes so I didn’t read the text I’d written […]

Posted in blog, public sociology, writing | Tagged equality, genocide, Holocaust, Islam, love, massacre, Muslims, peace, Rwanda, social justice, Srebrenica | Leave a response

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