salim, Mamdani's new article on zimbawe is available at Mrzine. Please have a look at it.
D.Prasad On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:15 PM, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > by social (more accurately no spiritual) decontextualizing of islam, they > can carve brotherhood between darfur and iraq muslims, where as their > problems are entirely different and at time antagonistic too. this is where > mahmoud mamdani is going for african islamic perspective. > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:39 AM, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> This is something I am yet to udnerstand. What does this decontextualizing >> means? Is re-contextualising possible? What is the "other" of the "other"? >> >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:06 PM, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> yes very much. decontextulizing islam and utilizing it as global islamic >>> brotherhood is another form of violence. but, power hierarchy and >>> 'otherness' in power dynamics mattter. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> salim, >>>> Is there a reverse for it. Any current discourse of Islam will not be >>>> completed without mentioning West, or more precisley US. >>>> Prasad >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:54 AM, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Islamophobia is not only a simple attitude violence towards islam, >>>>> but it is self-defining process of west. it defines itself by placing >>>>> islam >>>>> as 'other'. any current discourse about 'western civilization' wont be >>>>> completed without mentioning 'islam'. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bobby Kunhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> * http://www.islamicity.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=IC0812-3743 >>>>>> Rampant Islamophobia* >>>>>> *12/3/2008 - Political Social - Article Ref: IC0812-3743 >>>>>> Number of comments: 4 >>>>>> Opinion Summary: >>>>>> Agree<http://www.islamicity.com/comments/action.lasso.asp?-db=services&-lay=comments&-format=search.asp&-sortfield=Ref&-sortorder=Descending&-error=error.asp&-op=eq&SubjectID=IC0812-3743&-op=eq&PublishFlag=X&-op=eq&rating=F&-token=Agree&-max=10&-find>:1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Disagree<http://www.islamicity.com/comments/action.lasso.asp?-db=services&-lay=comments&-format=search.asp&-sortfield=Ref&-sortorder=Descending&-error=error.asp&-op=eq&SubjectID=IC0812-3743&-op=eq&PublishFlag=X&-op=eq&rating=A&-token=Disagree&-max=10&-find>:1 >>>>>> >>>>>> Neutral<http://www.islamicity.com/comments/action.lasso.asp?-db=services&-lay=comments&-format=search.asp&-sortfield=Ref&-sortorder=Descending&-error=error.asp&-op=eq&SubjectID=IC0812-3743&-op=eq&PublishFlag=X&-op=eq&rating=I&-token=Neutral&-max=10&-find> >>>>>> :2 >>>>>> By: Abukar Arman >>>>>> IslamiCity* - * >>>>>> >>>>>> While each has its distinctive history; like Anti-Semitism and >>>>>> racism, Islamophobia is a real phenomenon that cultivates hate among >>>>>> communities, stereotypes a whole group for the acts of a few, and >>>>>> justifies >>>>>> transgression against the innocent. And like the rest, Islamophobia was >>>>>> developed and is fostered by special interest groups who often have >>>>>> access >>>>>> to power in order to reach a political, social, or an economic end. >>>>>> >>>>>> With few exceptions, gone are the days when the perpetrators of hate >>>>>> would march with banners explicitly expressing their bigoted perceptions >>>>>> and >>>>>> attitudes. However, that is hardly an indication that the phenomenon has >>>>>> ceased to exist. >>>>>> >>>>>> Today, hate speech and propaganda are often craftily camouflaged as >>>>>> talk radio punditry, political lampooning, speeches, or political >>>>>> infomercial. >>>>>> >>>>>> Last year, in a bizarre outburst of bigotry that makes Islophobes such >>>>>> as David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer as objective >>>>>> intellectuals, radio talk show host Michael Savage of the Savage Nation >>>>>> had >>>>>> this ranting and raving to share with his audience: "I'm not gonna put my >>>>>> wife in a hijab. And I'm not gonna put my daughter in a burqa. And I'm >>>>>> not >>>>>> gettin on my all-fours and braying to Mecca. And you could drop dead if >>>>>> you >>>>>> don't like it." >>>>>> >>>>>> Ads by Google: >>>>>> Advertisements not controlled by IslamiCitySpewing his hate via over >>>>>> 1200 radio stations owned by a notoriously right-wing corporation Clear >>>>>> Channel, he continued his provocative diatribe: "You can shove it up your >>>>>> pipe. I don't wanna hear anymore about Islam. I don't wanna hear one more >>>>>> word about Islam. Take your religion and shove it up your behind. I'm >>>>>> sick >>>>>> of you." >>>>>> >>>>>> Along the same path, albeit more artistically, the July 2008 issue of >>>>>> the New Yorker Magazine had on its front page a political caricature of >>>>>> Barack and Michelle Obama. The couple is standing in the middle of the >>>>>> Oval >>>>>> Office. Obama is wearing a traditional Islamic dress with turban and >>>>>> sandals. He is approvingly fist-bumping with a militant looking Michelle >>>>>> as >>>>>> his sinister left eye gazes away. Michelle is wearing Angela Davis style >>>>>> afro and a guerilla fatigue with an M-16 hanging from her back. Looking >>>>>> over >>>>>> them is an Africa-American looking picture of Usama Bin Laden...hanging >>>>>> over >>>>>> the fire place where the American flag is set on flames. >>>>>> >>>>>> Then came September 4, 2008-- the Republican Convention --where the >>>>>> merchants of fear and paranoia found their ideal platform. Inadvertently >>>>>> or >>>>>> otherwise, the underlying theme seemed to be to broaden the definition of >>>>>> the enemy from a cult-like Al-Qaida to a much broader indeed more fluid >>>>>> definition that indicts all those who practice Islam as suspect or worse. >>>>>> >>>>>> Rudolph Guiliani, the former New York City Mayor, condemned the >>>>>> democrats for being "politically correct" and avoiding the use of the >>>>>> term >>>>>> 'Islamic terrorism'" to describe the enemy. >>>>>> >>>>>> Taking the politically synthesized Anti-Islamic mantra to the next >>>>>> level by directly speaking to the race-conscious voters, former >>>>>> congressional leader Dick Army, who now leads one of the most powerful >>>>>> lobby >>>>>> groups in Washington, had this to say. Barack Obama's "funny name" could >>>>>> "give people concerns that he could be or has been too much influenced by >>>>>> Muslims, which is a great threat now." Obama is Christian. >>>>>> >>>>>> It is a shame that the media is less interested in what Mr. Army and >>>>>> others who routinely use more provocative and broadly condemning terms >>>>>> such >>>>>> as "Islamo-fascism," "Islamic terrorism," and "Jihadism" to describe the >>>>>> enemy send to the 7 million Muslims in United States and 1.2 billion >>>>>> around >>>>>> the world. >>>>>> >>>>>> During the recent elections, many localities around the U.S. were hit >>>>>> by a new "swift-boating" campaign. This one, targeting swing states, is >>>>>> aimed to induce paranoia by distributing "28 million DVDs" of the >>>>>> propaganda >>>>>> film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. >>>>>> >>>>>> The film, like any Goebbelian piece of propaganda, conveniently >>>>>> exploits the human tendency to surrender their capacity to think >>>>>> critically >>>>>> when their emotions are stirred or fear is instilled in their hearts. The >>>>>> film does this successfully as it is made of selective footages from >>>>>> various >>>>>> parts of the world of individuals expressing hate, training, and >>>>>> committing >>>>>> acts of terror and the bloody scenes of their crimes. It is a dangerously >>>>>> effective way of collectively demonizing Muslims as the so called experts >>>>>> featured in the film use all the aforementioned hot button terminologies >>>>>> to >>>>>> describe the terrorists and interlink all these cases with their >>>>>> subjective >>>>>> narrative. >>>>>> >>>>>> This latest campaign is carried by an obscure New York based group >>>>>> named The Clarion Fund whose funders are not known. >>>>>> >>>>>> In pursuit of their goal to effectively disseminate the DVDs and >>>>>> secure subliminal legitimacy, this group has selectively targeted the >>>>>> newspaper distribution apparatuses of various cities in critical states. >>>>>> Here in central Ohio, the Columbus Dispatch has distributed 10,000 >>>>>> copies of >>>>>> the DVDs through its most widely read issue- the Sunday Dispatch. The >>>>>> same >>>>>> was done by the New York Times, the Miami Herald and a host of other >>>>>> newspapers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Venomous hyperbole aimed to stir fear and paranoia and indict all >>>>>> Muslims continues despite the Department of Homeland Security Office for >>>>>> Civil Rights and Civil Liberties' conclusion that*"Words matter"* and >>>>>> its recommendation that U.S. officials and representatives >>>>>> should*"...avoid >>>>>> inflating the religious bases and glamorous appeal of the extremists' >>>>>> ideology."*According to a memo from the said department, the >>>>>> terminologies used should depict the terrorists as the dangerous cult >>>>>> leaders they are. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *Abukar Arman is a freelance writer who lives in Ohio. He maintains >>>>>> his blog at FrogScorpia <http://frogscorpia.blogspot.com/>* >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
