Najam Discusses Islamophobia on Dawn News
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, appeared on Dawn TV News to discuss on the recent hate crime attack on a Muslim family in Ontario, Canada.
On June 6, 2021, a white extremist targeted a Muslim family with his truck killing all members of the family with one surviving child in hospital in critical condition, in what Ontario Premier Doug Ford called a “terrorist attack.”
Najam placed the attack within the rising tide of violent extremist attacks against immigrants in general and Asians in North America but also within an even longer spate of hate targeting of Muslims. He said that “looking at such attacks as isolated cases was never really justified and we will need societal responses that focus not only on law enforcement but also on hate narratives.” He added that the narratives of intolerance and hatred that are purposefully being sown in so many societies across the globe are producing “a crop of violence that is already out of control.”
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who also served as the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Dean Najam on his faculty profile.