This fundamentalist linkage of religious essentialism and nation-state happened in Iran in a Muslim context in 1978. It happened in India in the 1990s and continues to this day within a Hindutva nationalist context (a context in which my own scholarship, by the way, has been condemned, censored, and rejected by specific publics and conservative politicians). A similar project is being attempted in the United States within a white, racist Christian nationalism, where it continues to do endless damage and threaten the very structures of democracy and the intellectual freedom of intellectuals,
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