
Human Rights and Wrongs, with Dr. Zara Khan
Imam Tom Weekly, a Yaqeen podcast
00:00
The Implications of Universal Human Rights
In human rights language who is the human being is a negative space it's not answered. In my own kind of work I looked at was the freedom of religion norm and you know this is a norm that gives people living in different states any country that's a signatory to human rights treaties can evoke these rights against their state right. So it's very important and it sounds good but there are Muslims from Dagestan who don't enjoy those privileges right so as an American who's always critical we need to think about how first of all the justification for appropriation because that's something that there's not a consensus about.
Transcript
Play full episode