# The Lies of 9/11 & The War on Terror EXPOSED | Prof. Irfan Ahmad

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Published: 2026-09-12T17:05:39+00:00
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25 years after the 9/11 incident in the USA, many are beginning to catch up with what those events really kicked off: The global war on the non-West and the multipolar world. Watch professor Irfan Ahmad in this talk deconstruct the narrative the transatlantic club has built to justify a quarter of a century of violence against the Global South.Professor Irfan Ahmad, Professor of Anthropology-Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, discusses his book Terrorism in Question: Decolonizing Anthropology and the Study of Islam. The conversation examines the neocolonial construction of terrorism, Islamophobia, enemy-making, the Global War on Terror, epistemic whitewashing, and the need to understand political violence through a more humane and decolonized anthropology.Links:Irfan Ahmad: https://fs.ihu.edu.tr/cv/academicians... Terrorism in Question: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/A... Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com Merch: https://neutralitystudies.com/shop Donation: https://neutralitystudies.com/donate Timestamps: 00:00:00 Terrorism in Question 00:03:07 Decolonizing the terrorism question 00:06:40 Securitization and the enemy 00:08:25 From communism to Islamic terrorism 00:15:27 Good Muslims, bad Muslims 00:21:17 Manichaean thinking and Islamophobia 00:27:38 The Global War on Terror 00:31:28 Epistemic whitewashing 00:40:55 Terrorism as ideology and theology 00:49:59 War, neoliberalism and academia 00:51:35 The anti-conclusion and rehumanizing terrorism 00:57:04 Final thoughts and book recommendation

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