December 2010
28 posts
“You spit on your people,
Your people applaud,
Your former oppressors laurel...”
Watchhumorlessfeminist:
somali-jasmine:
infinite—igloos:
Hella! This is so rad!
Muslimahs on skateboards, hell yeahhh !!
and omg i personally know her lol.
Muslimah skateboarding in an abaya = awesome. That other Muslims are giving her such a hard time about her hobby is disappointing.
small plank of wood with wheels on the bottom =/= tool of the devil
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/the-three-b... →
The Three Bears Effect is the name given by Aiyo at the blog Black British Girl for how whites stereotype blacks and Asians as opposites while putting themselves in the middle as “just right” –like in “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.
For example, black men are stereotyped as having big penises but not much intelligence while Asian men are the other way round, leaving white men in the middle as...
sexiest language, sexiest thought, sexiest people
shitmystudentswrite:
To explain the relation of language and sexism, people suggested three notions. The first view is that sexiest language essentially causes sexiest thought, the second view is that language is sexiest because people are sexiest, and the third one is in both ways. Among these three notions, I personally agree with the first one, which argues that sexiest language...
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White coworker: You're really good at this job but I gotta admit it still bothers me when people like you come to this country & take jobs from real Americans.
Me: Where do you think I'm from?
Coworker: I don't know what you are, but I know you're something. What are you?
Me: Native American.
Coworker: Oh... then I guess you didn't come here, huh?
At work. Made me feel stunned, angry, hurt.
Emo-slim
via twitpic.com via @Muslimerican
White coworker: Why don't you drink?
Me: Because I'm Muslim.
White coworker: Oh, but you know I'm for women's rights. I'm glad you don't dress like those other women we work with (African women who wear hijab). I guess it's good they're allowed to leave the house to work though.
Fast Food Islam (part 1/2) | KABOBfest
No longer do we have scholars who spent their entire lives studying and contemplating the principles, concepts and teachings of the Prophet, teaching what they have discovered in highly sophisticated halaqahs in mosques and in their homes. Instead we have books like, “Islam: The Simple Religion” and “What Islam Says About Free-Mixing.” These books, written by either engineers or Wahhabi...
Islamic Homosexuality →
This is why I dislike the “homosexuality was always accepted in Muslim societies” argument
Shit My Students Write: What really is Orientalism... →
shitmystudentswrite:
Orientalism, to David Said, is known as Eastern culture and is typically thought of as a combination of Asian, Japanese, Siamese, Chinese and other non-European cultures. The concept of Orientalism relates to music because it creates a stereotype for the different types of music in different…
Pop psych mag cites evolutionary evidence for...
Evolutionary psychology rests on the shaky (often enpornulated) hypothesis that modern human social behaviors are actually species-preserving adaptations. Because evolutionary psychology, like all psuedoscience, is administered by jackasses who are heavily invested in patriarchy, the behaviors in question just happen to be the very same behaviors commonly observed to be beloved of patriarchyists....
“Sodomized by Religion”: Fictional Representations...
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><body xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><div xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> via pi.library.yorku.ca This article explores fictional representations of queer Muslims in the Western world. Analysing two films (My Beautiful Laundrette and Touch of Pink) and two novels (The Taqwacores and...
Foreign Aid for Scoundrels
It is always possible that an autocrat will be able to advance development. But the donors’ use of this possibility is inherently undemocratic—they presume to evaluate the ruler instead of the citizens (usually based on questionable information), and thus undemocratically decide who should have democracy. via nybooks.com
Mom: She only plays rugby so she can feel up on other girls.
Me: She's bisexual, not a pervert.
Mom: It's the same thing.
This week in Muslim Mentalism
This week, an evolutionary psychologist published his “discoveries” into, among other things, the dangerous sexual desires that motivate Muslim men to become suicide bombers. Next week, a provocatively titled book, Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle-East, by John R Bradley intends to take us on a “riveting journey” (his...
On Representational Paralysis
How do we responsibly counter stereotypes without giving them importance, quell liberal desires to save the world without denying social problems where they exist, and produce writing that is critical of the politics of neoimperialism without being dismissed as merely polemical? via jadaliyya.com
November 2010
15 posts
