1. Combating Defamation of Religions
(Opinions/Features)

...UN General Assembly Res. A/RES/61/164 (December, 2006). 2 UN General Assembly Res. A/RES/60/150 (December, 2005). 3 Ali Khan, The Essentialist Terrorist, 45 Washburn Law Journal 47 (2005); also availa...

2. Fighting Words
(Opinions/op-ed)

...or years, and long before the 9/11 attacks, the neo-conservative scholarship has been determined to popularize the concept of the essentialist terrorist (PDF) who purportedly draws his deepest inspira...

3. The Essentialist Terrorist
(Opinions/op-ed)

The Essentialist Terrorist The essentialist terrorist is a violent monster that the Highly Influential Terrorist Literature (“HITLit”) has successfully invented and made real and believable.  It