{"podcast":{"title":"Neutrality Studies","slug":"neutrality-studies-7179578","podcast_index_feed_id":7179578,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fe578920/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.neutralitystudies.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42571496/42571496-1737706255594-0b17200e71e0e.jpg","author":"Pascal","episode_count":469,"summary":"A channel dedicated to neutrality in international relations and analysis of world affairs. For more info, visit neutralitystudies.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T04:18:18.039478+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neutrality-studies-7179578"},"episode":{"title":"The Lies of 9/11 & The War on Terror EXPOSED | Prof. Irfan Ahmad","slug":"the-lies-of-9-11-the-war-on-terror-exposed-prof-irfan-ahmad","published_at":"2026-09-12T17:05:39+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neutrality-studies-7179578/the-lies-of-9-11-the-war-on-terror-exposed-prof-irfan-ahmad","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neutrality-studies-7179578","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/neutrality-studies/episodes/The-Lies-of-911--The-War-on-Terror-EXPOSED--Prof--Irfan-Ahmad-e3ooopt","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5128176404.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"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 t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3562,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/neutrality-studies-7179578/episodes/the-lies-of-9-11-the-war-on-terror-exposed-prof-irfan-ahmad/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neutrality-studies-7179578/the-lies-of-9-11-the-war-on-terror-exposed-prof-irfan-ahmad.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}