[Scroll.in]The hounding of an academic in Malayasia shows how religious nationalism is crushing dissent
I hadn’t expected my book tour in Malaysia to end with a confrontation with men who identified themselves as police in a Kuala Lumpur airport.I arrived in the Muslim-majority country in early January 2024 to promote the Malay translation of my book Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment, an academic analysis ...