Thanks DP 2008/12/6 damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
