In her book, “ Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas,” Sylviane A. Diouf notes: Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, by Sylviane A. Diouf, award-winning historian. Scattered across every region of the …..who interrogated him one day in june 1731.
Forty years after Congress increased statutory restrictions on Presidential war power authority we live in a world of secret prisons and drone strikes. And six years after US voters elected a Black Democrat as a rejection of the imperialist foreign policy of the White Republican Commander in Chief, Brown and Black Bodies around the world, including in these United States, in these DEBATES, still face the threat of extinction. And yet CEDA/NDT Debate continues to operate under the naïve assumption that rigid adherence to narrow role-playing frameworks is the only way to educate ourselves and change our world.
As Black men whose very lives are at stake every day, we can’t afford to ignore history like that. Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.189-90) GUANTÁNAMO IS STILL OPEN. ……s and unresolved dilemmas of the U.S. state.
When the voters who selected this year’s Resolution rejected the passive voice option, Muslim debaters and ancestors of Slavery were once again ‘indefinitely detained’ within the paradox of Empire- forced to choose between being surveilled as a potential Terrorist or subjugated as a ‘colonized Uncle Tom’ Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94) As the post-9/ 11 climate has …….sharpening the possibilities of the Muslim International.
How can adherents of the Prophet or descendants of African Slaves participate in this debate space? Where is our ground? We agree with increased restrictions on Presidential war powers authority, we reject the indefinite detention and targeted killings of our brothers and sisters around the world. And yet our attempt to engage these debates is denied because we cannot in good conscience ‘role play’ as our Oppressor. The epistemic architecture of contemporary debate as practiced by those who demand rigid adherence to narrow interpretations of the Topic restricts us but leaves the Status Quo intact. Shallow denunciations of Islamophobia are not sufficient – Voting AFF is the practice necessary to counter this epistemic racism
Given the FBI's pattern of using ….. even "radical" or heretical ideas.
We have an obligation to counter anti-Islamic knowledge productions like the topic formation within educational spaces like these debate rounds Zaal 12 (Mayida Zaal is an assistant professor at Montclair State University, “Islamophobia in Classrooms, Media, and Politics”, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 55(6), March, doi:10.1002/JAAL00066)
In previously conducted research, ….. critical readers of their world.
Our affirmation of Black Islamic Radicalism is a rejection of Racist Imperialism practiced abroad and here in our debates as an active embracing of political agency that can effectively challenge power formations? Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94) The Muslim International, …… sites toward power's undoing.
10/9/13
1AC Pitt RR Round 5
Tournament: Pitt RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wake LW | Judge: Warden Dr. Nawa ‘12
Nazreen, The Women of Hizb Ut Tahrir Present-Islam as the only ideology capable of liberating Women.,THE WOMAN'S CRY FOR KHILAFAH, women.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/.../Booklet20-20What20Future20for...?
Muslim women have become the terrorised victims of colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ……. of Iraqi women. As Black men whose very lives are at stake every day, we can’t afford to ignore history like this... Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.189-90) GUANTÁNAMO IS STILL OPEN. Drones keep flying, and more threats loom. Though there was a tremendous euphoria around the election of Barack Obama and a utopian belief that this was, ……..the post-9/ 11 era, as questions around race, U.S. empire, and internationalism continue to be the recurrent concerns and unresolved dilemmas of the U.S. state.
The “repressed Muslim woman” - docile, lacking in political agency, and unable to challenge her oppressors - became a familiar trope leading up to America’s War on Terror and depicted since in media coverage of authoritarian regimes throughout the Muslim world Dr. Lamrabet ‘12 From the Introduction of “The Quran and Women Liberation” By Asma Lamrabet What kind of liberation are we talking about? http://karamah.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Article-by-Asma-Lamrabet1.pdf
Dr. Lamrabet has been engaged in reflecting on and studying women’s issues in Islam. She has served as the President of the International Group of Studies and Reflection on women and Islam, based in Barcelona,Spain. The question of women in Islam has long been seen from within the framework of one of two extreme viewpoints: the ……., the Muslim woman ultimately remains captive, despite herself, of a discourse that, in both cases, casts aside her being, her aspirations and her will. Between a fossilised Islamic thought fiercely safeguarding the perimeters surrounding the woman question and a strand of Western ideology that revels in denigrating
And in a perverse irony, war powers authority is warranted by invoking the need to protect Muslim women, when it actually justifies military domination and colonial expansion. Dr. Nawa ‘12
The Women of Hizb Ut Tahrir Present-Islam as the only ideology capable of liberating Women.,THE WOMAN'S CRY FOR KHILAFAH, women.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/.../Booklet20-20What20Future20for...?
Contention Two: Responding to the Call Due to the importance of educational curriculum, this debate is a critical space from which to interrogate how representations of Muslim Women are crucial to war powers employed against Islamic nations. Muslim Women have been front and center in the US War on Terror since its inception. Supporting her husband’s efforts to exercise his war powers authority, First-Lady Laura Bush took the public stage to speak for Muslim Women, stating,” ''Civilized people throughout the world are speaking out in horror…our hearts break for the women.” Justifying continued deference to his war powers authority in protest of Congressional calls to withdraw from Afghanistan, Bush 43 warned “I believe that if that were to happen, women would suffer again.” The Taliban is a militant group the US had funded and trained during the 1970s and 80s, and whom Ronald Regan once likened to “the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.” Yet, when their assassination attempt on Hakeem’s Muslim sister, Malala Yousazai failed, Yousafzai became a celebrity for Western political leaders now focused on demonizing the “terrorist” group they had once supported and exploited during the Cold War. The scene of white men in expensive suits applauding in ecstasy at Malala Yousafzai’s speech before the UN General Assembly reveals the strategic rhetorical construction and political exploitation of Muslim women in the War on Terror. Malik 13 Anila Malik, Muslim political activist, Five Pillarz, “Malala Yousafzai don’t be fooled by the UN”http:www.5pillarz.com/2013/07/18/malala-yousafzai-dont-be-fooled-by-the-un/ Malala Yousafzai was recently given a standing ovation when she addressed the UN Youth Assembly and called for reforms in global education. The following lines were splashed across western mainstream media: “Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution.” Whilst I believe that our sister’s sincerity should not be questioned, I would like to pose the question – who do you turn to for help? Whose pens, teachers, books and curriculum do you ask for? ……. They want to use you to pave the way for the secular and liberal powers to go in and do what they do best, colonise the minds of the women, through their western educational curriculums. Our affirmation restricts Status Quo war powers authority by rejecting American instrumentalization of Muslim women for the War on Terror - Genuine respect and consideration for the political advocacy of Muslim Women is the superior alternative to the dangerous superficiality of the Status Quo Lamrabet ‘12
Indeed, today many Muslim female intellectuals, living both in Muslim societies and in Western countries, through their academic, social and theological research, but above all in the name of their faith, are challenging a vast array of prejudices on this issue. …….. Islamic female identity with its fully-fledged rights and responsibilities. It will also promote the right of the Muslim woman to establish herself as an active partner in the process of reform and religious re-interpretation that is currently under way in the Muslim world.
The 1AC is not about “speaking for others,” but rather recognizing the obligation Muslim Men have to play in supporting Islamic Feminism Lamrabet ‘12 From the Introduction of “The Quran and Women Liberation” By Asma Lamrabet What kind of liberation are we talking about? http://karamah.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Article-by-Asma-Lamrabet1.pdf This is obviously not about a movement that due to its feminine perspective will pit all women against men according to a confrontational paradigm…….., refusing to endorse subjugation, which Muslim women are the victims of, is an act of devoutness, piety and faithfulness to the Creator.
Asma ‘12 Here, however, it is a matter of distancing oneself from the feminine trend emerging from muslim women who are calling for changes but from outside any religious frame of …… They have been described by some as the “female dissidents from within”.
Hammer 13 (Juliane, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, “Center Stage”, Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance, p. 109- 110)
How then is Islamophobia gendered? There are several angles to this question that can be explored. Islamophobia is gendered in the way described above, in that gender is inherently part of social construction; thus, there have to be elements of Islamophobia that can be described as gendered. Furthermore, as Krista Riley pointed out above, the genderedness of Islamophobia can productively be explored through a nuanced study of ………………. No other factors or influences can be explored or considered in such a neatly organized scenario.
1/26/14
2AC Notes v OU Linger Upon Death K
Tournament: Shirley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: "The K is the politics of illusion. America targets white people first. Black islamic radicalism is key to solve the K and undo formations"
"You don’t solve-the alternative doesn’t solve anti-black muslim violence"
"Black Muslims are seen as cancerous cells. No neutrality, best conception of death"
"The philosophical establishment conceals racism."
"Baudrillard is apolitical. Derails radical black islam. They want us to linger on the death of the 1AC."
"They have a secular understanding that devalues all life-Making death and pain purely manipulation."
"Otherness is the status quo-Discussing it as something that will happen in the future is another mechanism of denial."
"They don’t talk about their social location, just more white philosophy."
11/16/13
2ac ndt round 5
Tournament: ndt | Round: 5 | Opponent: ou lm | Judge: koslow, allsup, loghry The our conjuring up of Malcolm X- was a counter-hegemonic excerise that ruptures both orientalism and white supremacy- that’s the 1ac Dabashai evidence.
Grosfoguel ’12 Ramon, PhD – Prof of Chicano/Latino Studies @ Berkeley, “The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia,” Islamophobia Studies Journal, Spring pp9-33 Epistemic racism and epistemic sexism are the most hidden forms of racism and sexism in the global system we all inhabit, the "Westernized/Christianized modern/colonial capitalist/patriarchal world-system" (see Grosfoguel 2008). Social, political, and economic racisms and sexisms are much more visible and recognized today than epistemological racism/sexism.
NEG interp perpetuates epistemic racism. Extend 1AC Craun evidence – privileging White Western definitions of war and authority is the logic destroying all life on the planet. Epistemic racism is an education net benefit independently warranting AFF ballot Grosfoguel ’12 Ramon, PhD – Prof of Chicano/Latino Studies @ Berkeley, “The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia,” Islamophobia Studies Journal, Spring pp9-33 ISLAMOPHOBIA AS EPISTEMIC RACISM The myth about the Western males capacity to produce a knowledge that is Universal beyond time and space was fundamental to imperial/global designs.
You should prioritize our knowledge claims based on personal experience of injustice in our own communities- their obscurantist academic theory won’t save us from “the fishy stare on the bus.”
Dalton 95 (Harlon, The Clouded Prism: Minority Critique of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, ed. Kimberle Crenshaw, p. 80-81)
The black, brown, red, and yellow folks who have circled around CLS's door in fluctuating numbers for the last ten years are always invited in for tea, but rarely invited to stay for supper, lest we use the wrong intellectual fork
3/29/14
GSU Disclosure
Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Opening: Islamic Inspired Slave Rebellion from Roots.
In her book, "Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas," Sylviane A. Diouf notes:
Diouf, 98 Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, by Sylviane A. Diouf, award-winning historian. Scattered across ….. day in june 1731.
The international western power structure has its origins in the enslavement of millions of blacks. In the process the religion of the slaves was demonized after all the first Muslims in America were enslaved blacks. This is the starting point of Islamophobia. But more than that, the scholarship neglecting the religion of the slave Islam is not accidental. This secular approach is an attempt to mitigate the greatest threat to white supremacy-Islam. The African Holocaust Society notes:
African Holocaust Society, 2011 www.islamandafrica.com, African Holocaust is a non-profit civil society dedicated to the progressive study of African history and culture. The society is composed of African scholars and writers, who share the desire to represent and restore an authentic, reflexive, honest, plural and balanced study of the African experience, past and present. For the last ….., West Africans and Arabs.
Malcolm X
There’s a world -wide revolution going on.. it goes beyond Mississippi, it goes beyond Alabama, it goes beyond Harlem.. What is it revolting against? The power structure. The American power structure? No. The French power structure? No. The English power structure? No. Then what power structure? An international western power structure.
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It is precisely this reason that Islam is demonized as it is the most important site of resistance to western hegemony.
Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.173 – 175) As an "enemy within….. as "post-American."
Islam is seen as a threat to the prison-industrial-complex. Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib are all the result of efforts to contain the Muslim body.
Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.170 – 172) In many ways Al-Amin ….the Muslim International.
*Sista Muhammad*
Embrace Black Muslim Radicalism in the tradition of Malcolm X as a restriction on presidential war powers.
In this round your role as judge is to facilitate Black Muslim radicalism
In the tradition of Malcolm X . This is key in crafting powerful platforms of rhetorical rebellion against white supremacy and u.s state power.
Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.135) By conjuring the history ….in late twentieth-century America.
Black Muslim Radicalism is a threat to the prison industrial complex.
Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.185-87) Imprisoned in 2000 and …the Muslim International.
1/5/14
NDT Round 2 - 2AC
Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: UMKC AF | Judge: Love, Denny, Abukake Dabashai ‘8 Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire, Hamid Dabashi an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. If a religion at¶ its current ......shadows of its differences.
Spillers 87 (Hortense, “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”, JSTOR, Diacritics, Vol. 17, No. 2, Culture and Countermemory: The "American" Connection, Summer, p.75-6) There is an amazing thematic synonymity on this point between aspects of Douglass's Narrative and Malcolm El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz's Autobiography of Malcolm X 2Iff……. Under these arrangements, the customary lexis of sexuality, including "reproduction," "motherhood," "pleasure," and "desire" are thrown into unrelieved crisis.
Gumbs 2010 (Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD Duke University, “We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism 1968-1996,” 2010 p. 2-3) Critical Black Diaspora Theorists, I’m calling you. Queer Futurists I’m calling you. This is for those of us who live here, at the shoreline. And though critical scholars of the “…… The excellence, the fullness of our critical practice comes, I think, from our willingness to live in this meeting space. You are an audience that I want (to exist). But lest my lust for the possibility of you blind my practice, this dissertation is a space of challenge and clarification. We were never meant to survive, so what do we mean instead?
Hartman Associate Professor of English @ UC BERKLEY 1997 Saidiya V.- “SCENCES OF SUBJECTION: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America”; pp. within introduction
Rankin was not alone in his desire ..... antics and the brutish
3/28/14
NDT round 7 aff
Tournament: NDT | Round: 7 | Opponent: Michigan HK | Judge: Cram Helwich, Topp, Weil 1AC was Malcolm X
2AC T
Resolved -
American Heritage 2k ~The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/R0178700.html~~ INTRANSITIVE VERB:1. To reach a decision or make a determination
Should -
Compact Oxford English Dictionary 7 (http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/should?view=uk) should: modal verb (3rd sing. should) 1 used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness. 2 used to indicate what is probable. 3 formal expressing the conditional mood. 4 used in a clause with ’that’ after a main clause describing feelings. 5 used in a clause with ’that’ expressing purpose. 6 (in the first person) expressing a polite request or acceptance. 7 (in the first person) expressing a conjecture or hope.
Demand that we roleplay specific policy mechanisms domesticates Muslim politics within nationalist framework, prevents fundamental critique of US white power structures
Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94)
For Muslims in the United States, Malcolm’s political vision has challenged all immigrants— AND of benevolence to U.S. policy in the Muslim Third World. By embracing Malcolm’s ideas in a post-9/ 11 world, Muslims will AND more critical edge and shaping and sharpening the possibilities of the Muslim International.
Obligation to use the ballot to prevent topic from being used as tool of anti-Islamic religious discrimination – this outweighs procedural topicality impacts
Zaal 12 (Mayida Zaal is an assistant professor at Montclair State University, "Islamophobia in Classrooms, Media, and Politics", Journal of Adolescent 26 Adult Literacy 55(6), March, doi:10.1002/JAAL00066)
In previously conducted research, the Muslim youth who shared their stories with me in AND . They described feeling alienated when adults and peers promoted stereotypes about Islam. The young women who participated in my research based in New York City resisted having their identities defined in polarizing dichotomies—devout or progressive, Muslim or American, good citizen or feared neighbor. They wanted to claim all their identities—student, sister, national origin, friend, daughter, law-abiding citizen, Muslim—without compromise. We have a responsibility as educators to expand our students understanding of the world by engaging them critically in analyzing the social, political, and historical contexts in which they live. This responsibility can and should include difficult conversations about conflicts, war, discrimination, and oppression. Unlike the principal in the vignette, I do not agree that the teacher should not have conducted a lesson about the events of September 11, 2001. But teachers must be prepared with pedagogical tools and age-appropriate curricula (see Table). When approaching socially sensitive issues, it is critical to deconstruct stereotypes and create anti-oppressive classrooms that allow for difficult dialogue in a responsible way. Classrooms are not simply spaces reserved for fiction, mock debates, and role-plays. They are microcosms where global—political, social, and historical tensions are enacted and reinforced in every action and interaction. Young people must negotiate torrents of information, and as educators we need to provide counternarratives and create learning environments in which students can engage as critical readers of their world.
Demands to Roleplay as policymakers maintains oppression
Reid-Brinkley 8 ~Shanara Reid-Brinkley, Rhetoric PhD 26 Prof @ Pitt, and the most competitively successful black woman in CEDA history, THE HARSH REALITIES OF "ACTING BLACK": HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICY DEBATERS NEGOTIATE REPRESENTATION THROUGH RACIAL PERFORMANCE AND STYLE~
Mitchell observes that the stance of the policymaker in debate comes with a "sense AND of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.
2AC Cap
Identity Politics is inevitable for Black and Brown bodies – we don’t get to check our identity at the door. Eurocentric critiques of religion and culture as "identify politics" masks the more harmful identity politics of their own privilege, locking in the foundations which allow for exploitation
Grosfoguel ’12 ~Ramon, PhD – Prof of Chicano/Latino Studies @ Berkeley, "The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia," Islamophobia Studies Journal, Spring pp9-33~ Epistemic racism and epistemic sexism are the most hidden forms of racism and sexism in AND this hegemonic epistemic racism and epistemic sexism are denied and discarded as particularistic.
Perm do both endorse there alternative as a part of a broader movement against capitalism via the Muslim international.
==== Daulatzai 12==== (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94) Similar to how the Muslim Third World is composed of non-Muslims and nonbelievers AND , agency, and self-determination take root and are given shape. As such, the Muslim International is not monolithic; it even resists homogeneity and AND philosophical and juridical frameworks of the Enlightenment, modernity, and Western liberalism. Because a central part of the Muslim International is the formal political activities and state AND means after being left at the margins by the violence of neoliberalism.^4 Scott, Kelley, and Bayat present compelling portraits of these struggles, and I AND , we should see them as powerful and productive sites toward power’s undoing.
Class-analysis that attempts to eschew identity politics is just a ruse for white middle class males to paternalistically lead non-white people in the glory of the revolution. It is an invisible form of white messianism that slips identity through the back door of anti-capitalist movements.
Ross 2000 ~Marlon B., Professor, Department of English and Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, "Commentary: Pleasuring Identity, or the Delicious Politics of Belonging," New Literary History, Vol. 31, No. 4, pages 840-841~
Touting class or "economic justice" as the fundamental stance for left identity AND and their culture.cross-identifying with the folk and their culture.
====Only the Islamic alternative to Desire-Based Morality can solve capitalism.==== Rizvi ’10 ~Ali, PhD Sociology and Philosophy, lecturer in philosophy and critical thinking, University Brunei, "Islamic Environmental Ethics and the Challenge of Anthropocentrism," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 27 (3): 2010, pp. 53-78, pdf accessed online~ Islamic Environmental Ethics and a Critique of Consumerism Consumption is a defining characteristic of modem societies: "Although consumption takes place in all human cultures, it is only in the present ~20th~ century that consumption on a truly mass scale has begun to appear as a fundamental, rather than merely epiphenomenal, characteristic of society."48 Despite that, much of the literature on environmental ethics largely concentrates on theoretical issues AND social and institutional levels rather than on the personal and ethical levels.49 Islamic ethics, on the other hand, places tremendous emphasis on avoiding another kind AND at least in practical terms, to declaring oneself to be one’s God. The dominance of desires over the individual and over social life has consequences both for one’s understanding as well as for one’s conduct: it leads to (a) the darkening of one’s heart (the intellect), which makes the per- son incapable of true understanding and wisdom, and (b) to conduct (i.e., a system of action) that causes an imbalance in the human world as well as in the universe at large.52 In the discussion that follows, I shall limit myself to the second aspect. The tyranny of desire has been institutionalized in modern consumerism and in capitalist rationality53 in AND grounds for transcending the tyranny of desire and a desire-based morality. Two main ethical theories of anthropocentrism are utilitarianism and Kantianism. Utilitarianism cannot provide any cure from the tyranny of desire because it in fact universalizes this tyranny by basing all morality upon the principle of pleasure maximization, which is another name for maximizing the satisfaction of desire. In economic terms, the utility principle lends moral grounds to the commitment to growth, high living standards, and high levels of consumption.55 In addition, utilitarianism cannot offer any objective grounds to limit, order, or discriminate among our many desires, for it is based upon the principle of utility maximization.56 Similarly Kantianism, which may be seen in the first instance as more immune from the AND social life in any fundamental way; it only exhorts us to pursue them in a consistent manner so that the internal and external conflict between various desires can be avoided. Given that radical environmentalism also presents no alternative to desire-based morality, it AND finiteness of Earth’s resources. The more optimistic mainstream anthropocentric environmentalists, however, see this as a temporary problem that ultimately will be overcome by human genius as well as by technology’s innovative and transformative powers.57
1AR CAP
The aff deconstruction of static knowledge production in the tradition of malcolm x provides unquie lens to understand the root of class struggles within the matrix of white supremacy Wise 2006 ~Tim, Totally bought Ben Crossan dinner one time, "Paleness as Pathology: The Future of Racism and Anti-Racism in America," LIP Magazine http://www.lipmagazine.org/~~timwise/palepathology. html~
While most of the left has long argued that capitalism is the primary impediment to AND specific, something unique (and uniquely dangerous) about the European worldview?
3/30/14
Texas Open Round 2 AFF
Tournament: Texas Open | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC | Judge: Montee Contention One: War Powers Authority
Targeted Killing is not just happening "over there" to "those people." Daulatzai '12 Black Star, Crescent Moon, pp170-72 In many ways Al-Amin...and even death.
What would Malcolm X have to say about drone strikes on his Muslim Brothers and Sisters? Dabashai '8 Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire How would have Malcolm X...education and went to Greeley.
Contention Two: A Higher Authority It is within this context that we affirm revolutionary ideals of Malcolm X as a substantial restriction on the war powers authority of the United States. Dabashai '8 Malcolm X was in various US jails...Islamic liberation project
Reinvigoration of Malcolm X is key to challenge Orientalism Dabashai '8 The most pernicious achievement...their obscene oppressors.
Malcolm connected domestic Racism and international imperialism, and is a critical link in understanding how to resist oppression. Dabashai '8 If Islam does not...an Islamic liberation project.
Our affirmation restricts wpa and provides a grammar of resistance to challenge white supremacy' Daulatzai '12 By conjuring the history of Malcolm X...late twentieth-century America.
2/8/14
USC Doubles
Tournament: USC | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Northwestern MP | Judge: CramHelwich, Hingstman, Turner Muslim Women have been front and center in the US War on Terror since its inception. Supporting her husband’s efforts to exercise his war powers authority, First-Lady Laura Bush took the public stage to speak for Muslim Women, stating,” ''Civilized people throughout the world are speaking out in horror…our hearts break for the women.” Justifying continued deference to his war powers authority in protest of Congressional calls to withdraw from Afghanistan, Bush 43 warnedm “I believe that if that were to happen, women would suffer again.” The Taliban is a militant group the US had funded and trained during the 1970s and 80s, and whom Ronald Regan once likened to “the moral equivalents of America’s Founding Fathers.” Yet, when their assassination attempt on Hakeem’s Muslim sister, Malala Yousazai failed, Yousafzai became a celebrity for Western political leaders now focused on demonizing the “terrorist” group they had once supported and exploited during the Cold War. The scene of white men in expensive suits applauding in ecstasy at Malala Yousafzai’s speech before the UN General Assembly reveals the strategic rhetorical construction and political exploitation of Muslim women in the War on Terror.
The American public consciousness has been strategically shielded from the fact that its own government’s support of patriarchal regimes have had deadly consequences for Muslim Women. Globally, the US War on Terror spreads Capitalism, Islamophobia, Racism, and Patriarchy, working in tandem to destroy the lives of Muslim Women. Dr. Nawa Muslim women .... terrorisers of Iraqi women. Nazreen, The Women of Hizb Ut Tahrir Present-Islam as the only ideology capable of liberating Women.,THE WOMAN'S CRY FOR KHILAFAH, women.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/.../Booklet20-20What20Future20for...?
The “repressed Muslim woman” became a familiar character in the narrative leading up to America’s War on Terror and depicted since in media coverage of authoritarian regimes throughout the Muslim world. Media depictions of her as docile, lacking in political agency, and unable to challenge her oppressors Within the US, identities of African American Sunni women are uniquely distorted as part of the overall racist marginalization of Islam.
The representation of .... version of Islam (Karim 1996; Mccloud 1995).
In a perverse irony, the US has the audacity to cite the need to protect Muslim women as justification for its military presence and colonial expansion. Dr. Nawa notes… As evident from the ..... the corruption of their state. The Women of Hizb Ut Tahrir Present-Islam as the only ideology capable of liberating Women.,THE WOMAN'S CRY FOR KHILAFAH, women.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/.../Booklet20-20What20Future20for...?
By rhetorically framing the debate around a loaded question of whether Muslim women should have the “rights” deemed important by the West, the actual exploitation enacted by war powers authority remains hidden from interrogation Dr. Nawa asks… The Gallup survey ....interests in the region?”
Our affirmation endorses Black Islamic Feminism as the best way to substantially restrict war powers authority of the US President by challenging its patraichal, capitalistic, and islamophobic system. Islamic Feminism is key to shatter and disrupt imperalistic incarnations of western feminism and support justice for Muslims women.
Sister Dr. Jamillah Karim explains… When I write about..... in order for it to be most effective. https://mana-net.org/pages.php?ID=educationandID2=andNUM=1065Ar. Jamillah Karim: Islamic Women, Islamic FeminismJamillah Karim, armed with a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Duke University and a lifetime commitment to the faith, Jamillah moved quickly to her current role as an assistant professor of religion at Spelman College. Her teaching, writing, research, and ample public speaking centers around nothing less than Muslims in the U.S., immigration, race, class, religious spaces and communities, and Islamic feminism.
Genuine respect and consideration for the political advocacy of Muslim Women is the superior alternative to the dangerous superficiality of the Status Quo Asma ‘12
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When voters who selected this Resolution rejected the passive voice option, Muslim debaters and ancestors of Slavery were once again ‘indefinitely detained’ within the paradox of Empire- forced to choose between being surveilled as a potential Terrorist or subjugated as a ‘colonized Uncle Tom’ Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94) As the post-9/ 11 …. the Muslim International.
Rather than accept self-oppression and blasphemy, we affirm Black Islamic Radicalism, rejecting Racist Imperialism practiced abroad and here in our debates and actively embracing political agency that can effectively challenge power formations Daulatzai 12 (Sohail, Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, culture, and politics, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, BLACK STAR, CRESCENT MOON The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America, Kindle Edition, p.191- 94) Similar to how …. sites toward power's undoing.
