Professor Bennoune Publishes in Huffington Post on Mass Shooting in San Bernardino
Professor Karima Bennoune published a blog post in the Huffington Post on the response to the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California and its connection to the ideology of Muslim fundamentalism. In the article, she is critical of the responses from politicians on either side of the political spectrum, and calls for them to put aside partisan politics to fight the ideology that motivated the San Bernardino shooters.
"First and foremost, we have to think of the victims and their families," writes Bennoune. "And then we have to declare all-out war on the political ideology of Islamism that motivated Syed Farook and Tafsheen Malik, while simultaneously standing firm against all attempts to discriminate against Muslims generally. We have to disarm all potential terrorists by toughening up gun control laws and by discrediting the foul ideas that motivate them. "
Karima Bennoune is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. She recently was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, now available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company.