An American academic, Professor Robert Jensen, teaching at the School of Journalism, Texas University, will deliver a series of lectures at the International Islamic University (IIU).
The subject of a lecture on Monday will be the American Paradox: More Freedom, Less Democracy; followed by another on 'Saying Goodbye to Patriotism: Critical Reflections on the Rejuvenation of Hyper-Nationalism in a post-9/11 America' on Tuesday. His next lecture on July 14 would be on the subject concerning Media, Education and the State in Contemporary America: Some Critical Reflections followed by another lecture on "Social Movements in History and the Global Justice Movement" on July 16.
Professor Robert Jensen would also speak on the Empire and the War for Muslim Minds - an interesting subject in the present context at the Institute of Policy Studies. Next, he would participate at a roundtable discussion on fundamentalism at the Faisal Mosque Islamic University.
The Higher Education |Commission has sponsored Professor Jensen's lectures. The Professor holds radical views about September 11, and described it as a day of sadness, anger and fear. He writes, like everyone in the United States and around the world, I shared the deep sadness at the deaths of thousands.
'But as I listened to people around me talk,' he realised that the US government, too, had also been guilty of deliberate killing of civilians for political purposes. 'For more than five decades throughout the Third World, the United States has deliberately targeted civilians or engaged in violence so indiscriminately that there is no other way to understand it except as terrorism.'
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