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The Home Office must not be allowed to bury the spycops inquiry | Imran Khan
By Imran KhanDoreen Lawrence and other victims of police surveillance have waited decades for justice. Delays and expense due to Met intransigence are no excuse to deny them that
#Undercoverpoliceandpolicing #Police #StephenLawrence #Metropolitanpolice #HomeOffice #Activism #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #ImranKhan
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Jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan taken to hospital https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/imran-khan-hospital-pakistan #ImranKhan #Pakistan #WorldNews #SouthAndCentralAsia
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Jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan taken to hospital
By Shah Meer Baloch and agenciesMove may signal attempt to improve relations between military-backed government and ex-leader’s party
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/20/imran-khan-hospital-pakistan
#ImranKhan #Pakistan #Worldnews #SouthandcentralAsia #TheGuardian #ShahMeerBaloch #agencies
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@eurasiareview/117102622442704205
We were in Tooting today and passed the street side Mango sellers with their posters of Imran Khan, I bet they have thoughts on Shehbaz Sharif...
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One day, your life and future may depend on a jury. The integrity of that legal process is in peril right now | Imran Khan
By Imran KhanWhen a barrister is cited for contempt because of his argument to a jury, as happened in a Palestine Action trial, the risks affect us all
#Trialbyjury #Contemptofcourt #UKcriminaljustice #Barristers #Law #UKnews #TheGuardian #ImranKhan
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The Scholar Who Refused to See Islam as an Enemy.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | July 17, 2026
[Editor’s note: Professor Junaid S. Ahmad teaches Law, Religion, and Global Politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization (CSID), Islamabad, Pakistan. He is a member of the International Movement for a Just World, Movement for Liberation from Nakba, and Saving Humanity and Planet Earth.
Here is my very brief comment:
Some men, like the late great Professor John Esposito, built bridges – while others now bomb and destroy those bridges…
Peace.]
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The Legacy of Professor John Esposito: The Scholar who Refused to Turn Islam into an Enemy
July 17, 2026 at 10:14 am
John L. Esposito [X]
There are scholars who interpret the world, scholars who flatter it, and scholars who quietly make it less cruel. John L. Esposito belonged emphatically to the third category. His passing deprives us not merely of a distinguished academic, but of something now far rarer: a genuine public intellectual — one who understood that scholarship is not an ornamental profession but a moral vocation.
Esposito may well have been the last great public intellectual in the field now called Islamophobia studies, although he used the term less frequently than many who later made an industry of it. Long before Islamophobia became a conference theme, a specialized vocabulary, or an academic career track, he was confronting its most consequential forms: the intellectual caricatures that shaped journalism, diplomacy, public opinion, and American foreign policy.
He did not simply describe prejudice against Muslims. He disrupted the machinery that produced it.
His method was deceptively radical: he studied Muslims in order to understand them.
That proposition sounds almost embarrassingly obvious. Yet Esposito entered a field in which influential Western scholars routinely approached Islamic movements as pathologies to be diagnosed, security threats to be contained, or civilizational irritants to be explained away. He refused this intellectual laziness. He treated Islamic revivalism not as a fever passing through irrational societies, but as a complex response to colonialism, authoritarianism, secularization, social dislocation, and the enduring human search for moral order.
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He engaged figures such as Hasan al-Turabi, Rachid Ghannouchi, Hasan Hanafi, and Khurshid Ahmad when much of the West preferred to demonize them. He did not agree uncritically with everything they believed; serious scholars do not confuse understanding with endorsement. But he recognized that scholar-activists could not be comprehended through intelligence briefings, hostile newspaper profiles, or inherited Orientalist categories. They had to be read, questioned, challenged, and encountered as thinking human beings.
Through books such as Voices of Resurgent Islam and Makers of Contemporary Islam, Esposito introduced Western audiences to a vast intellectual world they had scarcely been told existed. He developed friendships across the Muslim world because he went there not as an anthropologist examining exotic specimens, but as an interlocutor. In
societies accustomed to Western experts arriving with prefabricated conclusions, his seriousness felt revolutionary.His mentor, Ismail al-Faruqi, helped shape this disposition, but Esposito made it unmistakably his own. He became perhaps the first Western scholar of contemporary Islam to be welcomed across Muslim societies with something approaching popular affection. He was not merely respected. In Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, and elsewhere, he was embraced.
When he visited Pakistan in 2017 to deliver the inaugural memorial lectures for my father, Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, the reception was extraordinary. The lectures, co-organized by the US-Pakistan Intercultural Coalition, took him to the Lahore University of Management Sciences, the University of Management and Technology, the National Defence University, and the Institute of Policy Studies. The halls were packed. Audiences stood wherever they could find space. John Esposito, an Italian-American Catholic scholar from Brooklyn, arrived in Pakistan and was received like a rock star.
But the enthusiasm was not celebrity worship. Pakistanis understood what he had done. Here was a Western scholar who had spent decades explaining Islam without condescension, Islamic politics without hysteria, and Muslim grievances without treating Muslims themselves as guilty until proven moderate. They regarded him, quite simply, as the greatest living Western scholar of Islam.
For our family, however, he was also Uncle John — or at least the sort of figure who occupies that emotional territory.
Before my father and one of his closest friends, Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, passed away in 2016, I knew Prof. Esposito primarily through telephone calls. He was hilarious. He would announce, with theatrical exasperation, that he was still waiting for my father’s hopelessly overdue essay for yet another edited volume. This happened repeatedly over the years. My father’s deadlines were elastic; John’s irritation was affectionate; and both men seemed to understand that the ritual would recur indefinitely.
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His humor extended to his own career. He liked to say that before 1979 he barely had one and could hardly imagine writing a book. Then came Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution, producing what John jokingly called his first Lexus. Osama bin Laden and September 11, he would add, were responsible for the Mercedes. Behind the joke was a devastating observation: Western interest in Islam expanded most dramatically when Muslims could be represented as a crisis.
Esposito understood this danger earlier than almost anyone. In The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, he anticipated the geopolitical temptation that followed the collapse of communism. Great powers, deprived of a grand enemy, rarely accept the inconvenience of peace. Islam was soon drafted into the vacant role. After September 11, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam challenged both the appropriation of religion by terrorists and the exploitation of terrorism by those eager to indict an entire civilization.
His scholarship was courageous because it was published when misunderstanding Muslims was professionally safer than understanding them. The American media frequently preferred experts whose authority seemed proportional to their hostility. Esposito, arguably the leading Western authority on Islam, was often less visible in mainstream American discourse than ideologues who possessed neither his fieldwork nor his intellectual range. Apparently, the qualification for explaining Muslims on television was not knowing them too well.
Internationally, matters were different. He advised governments, addressed universities, consulted policymakers, edited encyclopedias, and wrote more than fifty books translated into dozens of languages. Yet the scale of his bibliography can obscure his larger achievement. He built an intellectual infrastructure for seeing Muslims as historical actors rather than permanent suspects.
After my father’s death, my own relationship with Prof. Esposito deepened. His emails were an improbable combination of erudition, outrage, gossip, warmth, and comedy. He was generous with his time and prodigal with his friendship. Together with Professor Tamara Sonn and Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, he formed part of the intimate circle of intellectual powerhouses I had heard about since childhood — my father’s confidantes, critics, collaborators, and beloved interlocutors.
It was therefore only fitting that Esposito delivered the first Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad Memorial Lectures, and that Tamara Sonn delivered the following year’s lectures. They were not ceremonial selections. They were family.
One of my final and most revealing exchanges with Prof. Esposito concerned an international appeal demanding medical transparency and humane treatment for former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. He was deeply disturbed by the situation. Still, I told him I would understand if he preferred not to sign. Pakistan had awarded him one of its highest civil honors, and he was habitually received there as a state guest. Public dissent could jeopardize relationships cultivated over decades.
He did not deliberate for two seconds.
“Add my name,” he said.
Soon afterward, representatives connected to the Pakistani Embassy approached him with exquisite politeness. They praised him, honored him, and then delicately suggested that he had misunderstood Pakistan and been misinformed. Esposito replied that he understood the situation perfectly well. When he recounted the conversation to me, we laughed.
Tamara Sonn signed as well. Both knew that their standing with Pakistan’s establishment might never be quite the same. They chose principle over prestige — an elementary moral decision that remarkably few intellectuals, Muslim or otherwise, seem capable of making when honorary treatment, official access, and personal convenience are at stake.
This was not an isolated act. Esposito stood by Dr. Sami Al-Arian through years of persecution and confinement, visiting him under house arrest when many respectable people found distance more comfortable. He advocated for him when solidarity carried consequences. Esposito’s bridge-building was never the bloodless dialogue of hotel conferences and polished communiqués. He built bridges toward people whom power had isolated.
That distinction matters. Plenty of people celebrate pluralism when pluralism is fashionable. Esposito defended human dignity when doing so was awkward.
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He spoke of dialogue between “Islam and the West” before the phrase became institutional furniture. But he also knew that civilizations do not converse; people do. His genius was to create relationships where abstractions had produced antagonisms. The founding of Georgetown’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding was therefore not merely an academic accomplishment. It embodied his central conviction: that knowledge must become encounter, and encounter must become ethical responsibility.
John Esposito perhaps did more to combat Islamophobia than much of the contemporary Islamophobia studies industry because he worked upstream. He challenged the categories, assumptions, and foreign-policy fantasies from which anti-Muslim prejudice drew its authority. He did not merely denounce the fire; he examined the intellectual wiring that kept setting the building ablaze.
His critics occasionally accused him of being too sympathetic to Muslims. It was an inadvertently revealing charge. Sympathy, in their vocabulary, meant refusing to begin with contempt.
Esposito began with curiosity. He proceeded with rigor. He ended, more often than not, with friendship.
That is why the Muslim world mourns him not as a foreign specialist who wrote about Islam, but as a friend who stood with Muslims without romanticizing them, spoke for justice without seeking applause, and crossed boundaries that lesser minds treated as walls.
My father was blessed to call him a beloved friend. I was blessed, after my father’s passing, to discover that friendship for myself. His last lesson to me was also the lesson of his life: honors are pleasant, access is useful, and prestige can open doors — but none of them is worth the price of silence.
John Esposito built bridges in an age that rewarded walls. The finest tribute we can offer him is not simply to praise those bridges, but to possess the courage to cross them.
OPINION: Imran Khan and the Islamophobia industry that buried him
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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(Source: MiddleEastMonitor.com)
#Brooklyn #Education #ImranKhan #IslamicStudies #Islamophobia #MuslimTheology #Philosophy #ProfessorJohnEsposito #WorldHistory -
Pakistan's Whispers: 'Cypher' Echoes and Shifting Geopolitics
Pakistan's 'cypher' controversy intensifies debate on US interference and Imran Khan's ouster. Military chief visits Tehran amid regional tensions.
#PakistanPolitics, #CypherControversy, #USInterference, #ImranKhan, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/pakistan-cypher-us-interference-imran-khan-ouster/
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The 'cypher' controversy in Pakistan is reigniting claims of US interference in politics, affecting the ouster of former PM Imran Khan.
#PakistanPolitics, #CypherControversy, #USInterference, #ImranKhan, #Geopolitics
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They can try, but I see the support that Khan gets among the Diaspora in the UK.
Isn't the current regime bombing hospitals in Afghanistan?
Gee, who might the baddies be?
(Pro:Tip people who target hospitals are ALWAYS the Baddie)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/24/prisoner-number-804-pakistan-plot-to-erase-imran-khan
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Imran Khan’s Vision Crisis: Imran Khan Loses 85% Sight | Asim Munir Regime To Blame? | India First
Imran Khan's Vision Crisis: Imran Khan Loses 85% Sight | Asim Munir Regime To Blame? | India First #indiatoday #imrankhan #imrankhanvision #pakistan #pakistannews #asimmunir #indiafirst #gauravsawant #indiavspakistan #indiapakistan Subscribe to India Today for NEW VIDEOS EVERY DAY and make sure to enable Push Notifications so you'll never miss a new video. All you need to…
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Imran Khan’s eyesight reduced to 15%, says CM Sohail Afridi
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Thursday stated that eyesight of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s founding chairman Imran Khan has been reduced to only 10 to 15 percent and people would not sit idle as this is a matter of their leader’s life. #CMKP #SohailAfridi #ImranKhan Business Recorder is Pakistan's first and premier financial publication. The YouTube channel is run by Business…
https://fllics.com/en/video/imran-khans-eyesight-reduced-to-15-says-cm-sohail-afridi/
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Friend of the Court Barrister Salman Safdar To Meet Imran Khan Today In Adiala Jail ؔ Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Friend of the Court Barrister Salman Safdar To Meet Imran Khan Today In Adiala Jail | Breaking News | Dawn News فرینڈز آف کورٹ سلمان صفدر کی عمران خان سے اہم ملاقات #SalmanSafdar #ImranKhan #FriendOfTheCourt #DawnNews #BreakingNews #LatestNews #newsheadlines #newsbulletins #exclusivecoverage #livenews #latestpakistannews #pakistannewstoday…
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Supreme Court Directs Salman Safdar to Meet PTI Founder Imran Khan | Breaking News | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Supreme Court Directs Salman Safdar to Meet PTI Founder Imran Khan | Breaking News | Dawn News سپریم کورٹ کا سلمان صفدر کو عمران خان سے ملاقات کا حکم #SupremeCourt #SalmanSafdar #ImranKhan #DawnNews #BreakingNews #LatestNews #newsheadlines #newsbulletins #exclusivecoverage #livenews #latestpakistannews #pakistannewstoday Dawn News Urdu | LIVE…
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Salman Safdar Will Meets PTI Founder Imran Khan Today | Breaking News | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Salman Safdar Will Meets PTI Founder Imran Khan Today | Breaking News | Dawn News سلمان صفدر کی عمران خان سے آج ملاقات #SalmanSafdar #ImranKhan #AdialaJail #DawnNews #BreakingNews #LatestNews #newsheadlines #newsbulletins #exclusivecoverage #livenews #latestpakistannews #pakistannewstoday Dawn News Urdu | LIVE Stream 24/7 | Breaking News | News Headlines |…
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Suicide Attack Mastermind Among 4 Facilitators Arrested | Dawn News Headlines: 05 PM
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Suicide Attack Mastermind Among 4 Facilitators Arrested | Dawn News Headlines: 05 PM خودکش حملہ، ماسٹر مائنڈ سمیت 4 سہولت کار گرفتار خان کی ذاتی معالجین سے چیک اپ کی درخواست خارج #BreakingNews #PakistanNews #SuicideAttack #Terrorism #Arrests #Mastermind #ImranKhan #CourtNews #LegalUpdate #LatestNews #breakingnews #newsheadlines #pakistannewsurdu #livenews…
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Supreme Court Schedules 13 Cases of PTI Founder Imran Kha for Hearing | Breaking News | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Supreme Court Schedules 13 Cases of PTI Founder Imran Kha for Hearing | Breaking News | Dawn News عمران خان کیخلاف اہم کیس کی سماعت مقرر #SupremeCourt #ImranKhan #DawnNews #BreakingNews #LatestNews #newsheadlines #newsbulletins #exclusivecoverage #livenews #latestpakistannews #pakistannewstoday Dawn News Urdu | LIVE Stream 24/7 | Breaking…
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Supreme Court Schedules 13 Cases of PTI Founder Imran Kha for Hearing | Breaking News | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Supreme Court Schedules 13 Cases of PTI Founder Imran Kha for Hearing | Breaking News | Dawn News عمران خان کیخلاف اہم کیس کی سماعت مقرر #SupremeCourt #ImranKhan #DawnNews #BreakingNews #LatestNews #newsheadlines #newsbulletins #exclusivecoverage #livenews #latestpakistannews #pakistannewstoday Dawn News Urdu | LIVE Stream 24/7 | Breaking…
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PM Shehbaz & Sohail Afridi Meeting | Any Relief for Imran Khan? | News Wise | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: PM–Sohail Afridi Meeting | Any Relief for Imran Khan? Why Is Arshad Sharif’s Killer Still Undetermined? | News Wise | Dawn News وزیراعظم،، سہیل آفریدی ملاقات، خان کیلئے آسانیاں؟ ارشد شریف کیس؛ قاتل کا تعین کیوں نہ ہوسکا؟ #ImranKhan #SohailAfridi #PrimeMinister #ArshadSharif #JusticeDelayed #PakistanPolitics #BreakingNews #breakingnews #newsheadlines…
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Imran Khan’s jailing is not justice. It is power protecting itself. Courts were used as weapons, votes were ignored, and dissent was crushed. This is how elites steal democracy and punish anyone who challenges them.
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Qamar Ahmed Shares the Tragic Moments of Partition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqPGKkeutyo
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Meeting with Imran Khan | Can the Chief Justice Offer Any Help?| Ali Bukhari | Dawn News
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Meeting with Imran Khan | Can the Chief Justice Offer Any Help?| Ali Bukhari | Dawn News عمران خان سے ملاقات۔۔۔۔ کیا چیف جسٹس کوئی مدد کرسکتے ہیں؟ #ImranKhan #ChiefJustice #PakistanPolitics #Judiciary #BreakingNews #CurrentAffairs #breakingnews #newsheadlines #pakistannewsurdu #livenews #latestpakistannews #latestnews #pakistannewstoday #dawnnews Dawn…
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Why Is Terrorism Increasing in Balochistan? | Why Did Govt Hide Khan’s Health? | Khabar Se Khabar
📺 Watch Dawn News Live Stream: Why Is Terrorism Increasing in Balochistan? | Why Did Govt Hide Khan’s Health? | Khabar Se Khabar | Dawn بلوچستان میں دہشتگردی کیوں بڑھ گئی؟ حکومت نے خان کی صحت کا معاملہ کیوں چھپایا؟ #Balochistan #Terrorism #PakistanPolitics #BreakingNews #ImranKhan #GovtAccountability #breakingnews #newsheadlines #pakistannewsurdu #livenews…