Snippets: Ahimsa Conversation # 26 Faisal Devji
Channel: Ahimsa Conversations
Date: 2020-08-29

The 9/11 terrorist attacks drew historian Faisal Devji into the study of violence but he did this by simultaneously studying nonviolence more deeply. This led him to write one book titled ‘The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics’ and another book titled ‘The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptations of Violence’.
Here Faisal explains how both terrorists and those who oppose them deploy the concept of ‘humanity’. For Gandhi, says Faisal, to be truly humanitarian was to go beyond our species and include all sentient beings.