Human Rights and Wrongs, with Dr. Zara Khan | Ep. 3 | Dogma Disrupted, with Imam Tom Facchine

Want to listen on the go? Check out Dogma Disrupted on your favorite podcast platform! https://yqn.io/dogma Human rights may seem like an obvious thing to advocate for. After all, we are all human and want the best for ourselves and others. But where does our notion of rights really come from? Who is the “human” of human rights? Imam Tom Facchine invites Dr. Zara Khan to discuss the history of human rights movements, the underlying assumptions of what it means to be human, as well as how human rights discourse is politicized and weaponized against Islam and Muslims. 0:00 - Introduction 2:00 - Defining “rights” and their origins 5:05 - The rights of Allah 6:15 - Rights implied in the Qur'an 8:56 - Two sources of rights from Surah al-Nisa 12:07 - Origins of the Western conception of rights 14:28 - Roman-Christian tradition vs. Enlightenment 21:03 - Imam Ghazali on the sacred value of society 22:30 - The (not) Universal Declaration of Human Rights 24:32 - Are human rights useful? 25:50 - Defining the “human” in “human rights” 28:55 - Unpacking freedom of religion 31:00 - Not all societies prioritize the same rights 33:00 - The state defines and limits human rights 35:25 - Secularism in the United States and France 37:57 - Consent to marriage, child labor #dogmadisrupted #imamtom #humanrights #yaqeenpodcast #yaqeen #islamicethics Click SUBSCRIBE and hit the 🔔 icon to receive the latest updates from Yaqeen! Visit http://www.yaqeeninstitute.org for full access to all research publications, infographics, and videos. Join the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @yaqeeninstitute!