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"[T]hey say, the Muslim world’s salvation lies in its progressive liberals coming forward as an..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 21:47:37 +0400

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[T]hey say, the Muslim world’s salvation lies in its progressive liberals coming forward as an alternative to the fanatical fringe that has taken over the microphone.

This view, with its emphasis on Islam’s liberal dimensions, frequently masquerades as the progressive position. In fact – and despite its ubiquity – it is a retrograde and dangerous misdiagnosis. First, it conflates symptom with cause: it describes the evident – that intolerant interpretations of Islam dominate – but does not excavate the cause of their ascendency. And second, blind to history and context, it lays out an easy binary of the modern Muslim woman and the oppressed Muslim woman, the tolerant Muslim man and the traditional Muslim man, the good Islam and the bad Islam. And it provides as easy key to tell the two apart, a simple way to determine whom to bomb and whom to applaud.

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- Hamzah Saif

I’m having a, “Wait, we still have to argue that Muslim “culture” is neither homogeneous nor dichotomous?” moment

There was a time when “Oriental Tales” were the rage of the age....

Mon, 28 May 2012 20:05:53 +0400

There was a time when “Oriental Tales” were the rage of the age. Montesquieu penned Lettres Persanes in 1721 and Oliver Goldsmith followed up several decades later with The Citizen of the World . But I recently came across a late 19th century text about a future visit of a Persian Prince and Admiral to the ruins of a land known as Mehrica. This is The Last American and purports to be the journal of Khan-Li, a rather bizarre name for a Persian but so thoroughly Orientalist in mode. The admiral visits America in 1990 ( a century after the book was written), when American is in ruins, following the massacre of the Protestants in 1907 and the overthrow of the Murfey dynasty in 1930.

androphilia: Burqa Disco By John Douglas

Sun, 27 May 2012 02:05:02 +0400

androphilia:

Burqa Disco By John Douglas

lecamp: عام 2005 ، وصل الجنرال دايتون الى فلسطين مع مهمة...

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:39:26 +0400

lecamp:

عام 2005 ، وصل الجنرال دايتون الى فلسطين مع مهمة استثنائية ، وهي بناء الأسس الجديدة لقوات الأمن في السلطة الفلسطينية. في خطابه التلخيصي عام 2009 في معهد واشنطن لسياسة الشرق الادنى ، يفتخر دايتون مرارا من النجاح الذي حققه مع فريقه في خلق الرجال الفلسطنيين الجدد. انطلاقا من خطاب دايتون ، يقدم المشروع رؤية نقدية للاساليب والآليات التي تستخدمها القوى الاستعمارية في محاولاتها لانتاج ليس فقط لواقع جديد في المكان ، بل وإعادة تشكيل ملامح السياق الفلسطيني المعاصر، على شكل قصة اطفال تروي “حكايات العم دايتون” مبنية من مواد دعائية وكتيبات وصور ،تقوم بشكل ساخر بتفكيك هذا الخطاب لاستعراض واعادة انتاج شخصية وملامح المجتمع الفلسطيني.

رؤوف حاج يحيي، روان ابو رحمة وباسل عباس

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Someone needs to create a deathreatometer tool for pundits, whereby they are rated on the basis of...

Sat, 26 May 2012 06:30:06 +0400

Someone needs to create a deathreatometer tool for pundits, whereby they are rated on the basis of how often they tout the fact that they receive death threats. The more often you do it, the likelier it is that your opinion is irrelevant.

Freedom is a daily practice - wall in Tunis الحرية ممارسة يومية...

Sat, 26 May 2012 04:14:43 +0400

Freedom is a daily practice - wall in Tunis

الحرية ممارسة يومية - تونس

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Yasmine Hamdan - La Mosh Ana

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:30:27 +0400

Yasmine Hamdan - La Mosh Ana

Forget about “Couch potato of critiquing”; I’d be happy with “couch potato...

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:02:07 +0400

Forget about “Couch potato of critiquing”; I’d be happy with “couch potato of pseudo-critiquing of critiquing”

"LWhat is a piece of religious clothing to some has taken on a life of its own as a symbol of..."

Sun, 20 May 2012 02:49:40 +0400

“LWhat is a piece of religious clothing to some has taken on a life of its own as a symbol of oppression, restriction, and violence. It adds an element of otherness that has moved beyond the women’s movement or women’s protection, but has been used to separate us. But in truth, the burqa or niqab is just a piece of fabric. What is the real culprit is the invisible burqa — the economic, political, and social discrimination and violence that we all face, no matter what we choose to wear. It is the struggle that still remains for women across the globe to fully participate in society as equals, as they were born to do, and this is what we must work together to remove.”

- “The Burqa That We Are All Wearing,” Hibaaq Osman

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Looking at some of the posts on your blog recently, I do feel a sense of western 'feminist' orientalism going on (although maybe that's just my misunderstanding of the points presented in the piece(s.)) I dunno... it seems to me that you touch on the secularized western tradition without attempting to look at the socio-religious 'Islamic' one. :/. (Not pointing any fingers here, though. Heh.)

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:17:18 +0400

I’m not quite sure I follow you (I blame “western ‘feminist’ orientalism” - not used to having that thrown my way), so I’d appreciate it if you can elaborate.

But here’s a general idea of how my thought process works

Whenever I’m registering for a service that insists on...

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:56:00 +0400

Whenever I’m registering for a service that insists on Zip/Postal Codes (we don’t have those), I mutter, “Thank you, Beverly Hills 90210”.

I’ve been using 90210 for well over a decade.

Takhabot - Ghassan Halwani & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh [Music...

Fri, 18 May 2012 23:28:00 +0400

Takhabot - Ghassan Halwani & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh [Music Film]

Takhabot reflects the political & socio-economic chaos that a modern Arab is continuously witnessing, increasingly day after day.

kawlture: قلومي و انهضي قبل أن تنقرضي Had to reblog

Fri, 18 May 2012 21:49:24 +0400

kawlture:

قلومي و انهضي

قبل أن تنقرضي

Had to reblog

thehoopoe: Occupy Sisterhood ~ poster by Favianna Rodriguez

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:37:35 +0400

thehoopoe:

Occupy Sisterhood ~ poster by Favianna Rodriguez

nosex: pdf & transcript. transcript is better for reading....

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:21:10 +0400

nosex:

pdf & transcript.

transcript is better for reading. pdf is good for looking. all radicals be smart & be safe.

Quiz Time!

Fri, 18 May 2012 01:30:00 +0400

If Aboul Fotouh wins Egypt’s presidential elections, ~~regurgitations~~ mentions of the word ‘taqiyya’ will increase by:

1) 100%

2) 150%

3) 200%

4) 300%

Send in your predictions. Winner(s) get(s) a cookie.

“In Kan Fouadi” by Yasmine Hamdan.

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:21:02 +0400

“In Kan Fouadi” by Yasmine Hamdan.