MUSLIM LIFE IN TIME OF PANDEMIC!

Since 9/11, living in America as a Muslim has been a tough ride over a rough road stumbling over Islamophobia, racism, and war on terrorism bumps. In time of the Coronavirus pandemic this may change; there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  The horrific Virus that has infected more than a million people around the world and killed more than 50,000 so far has dramatic changes, and the worst is yet to come. The ramifications are not going to affect just the financial structure of our economy, but also, more importantly, our culture. AS professor Schultz of Hamline University explained on my show, America in time of the pandemic is becoming a nation of strangers, in Camus’s proportion. “Every disaster shakes to lose the old order. What replaced it is up to us”. Rebecca Solnit wrote in the Times.

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IN TIME OF PANDEMIC, AMERICA IS A NATION OF STRANGERS, Prof. David Schultz

In Time of Pandemic, America, a Nation of Strangers! Prof. David Schultz

Prof. Schultz argues, Truth may be stranger than fiction as Mark Twain once said. Yet fiction often speaks truth to reality. In the case of civilization living under the dagger of Covid-19, many are turning to books and plays for distraction and pleasure. While some might read Waiting for Godot in hopes that the quarantines and the disease will soon pass.

What we learn from reading The Stranger and The Plague is that there is a script to human nature.  It is the script of  Kübler-Ross that plays out with every tragedy.  How we respond to events like Covid-19 is like living in the movie Groundhog Day, where we simply relive and reenact a series of scripted events that prove that Hegel was correct–the only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history. Read Prof David Schultz artcile

 

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A GRAND STRATEGY FOR THE POST PANDEMIC WORLD!, Prof. Muqtedar Khan

Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Post Pandemic World

For the United States, the geopolitics of the COVID-19 pandemic will boil down to a contest with China.

The COVID-19 pandemic could transform the world. Many geopolitical experts are concerned  that this crisis, more than any other this century, has the potential to permanently reconstitute the global order. Some are even arguing that while the United States is abdicating global leadership during the current pandemic, China is using it to reinforce its growing status as the alternate destination for economic aid, medical and scientific support, and leadership for many nations, including Western and developed nations like Italy. Some commentators claim that China is using the crisis to dethrone the United States as the global superpower.

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