By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Dr. Irfan Ahmad is the Associate Professor of Political Anthropology at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Melbourne. In a talk as part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Global Meeting on Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) organized in Oslo, Norway from March 14th to 16th he said that inter-faith dialogue is an everyday reality in India. However, Indian media hampers the inter-faith dialogues by their biased reporting.
Without naming Praveen Swami, Dr. Ahmad said that reporting on “Indian Mujahideen (IM)” is now even getting academic attention even though the only source seems to be Mr. Swami himself:
“Interestingly, there is one key Indian journalist source on IM. It is that journalist who blamed Muslims for terrorist attacks on mosques and other Muslim sites. Obviously, facts were opposite. It is same journalist who international analysts writing on IM cite. My point is: discourses of terrorism exist without evidence.
Wath the video of his talk here: https://youtu.be/_Q6zGSpTo4M?t=15m40s
A copy of the presented paper is here :
https://www.academia.edu/23713947/Religion_and_Violent_Extremism_An_Anthropological_Perspective_from_India