to further your point: the first suicide bombers were not muslim, not christian, not jewish; not "children of abraham" blah blah; they were tamil tigers, hindus. fighting against not muslim-jew-christian blah blahs, but buddhist singalese, who repaid them with mass slaughters.
i hate and detest all these characterizations of peoples and cultures as somehow inherently, or even historically, susceptible to violence or fanaticism. scratch any historical surface sufficiently and you will find that the lovers of peace committed plenty of their own crimes against humanity. as for the crimes of muslim slave trading, i can't believe that this list would really descend to such historically weak statements.
but what the hey, obama recited the pledge of allegiance, i've been told, after celebrating the assassination of osama. now, that should really make us feel good
ken
On 5/4/11 10:12 PM, Lavonda Staples wrote:
In the abstract, the work of Spivak, "Can The Subaltern Speak" is also helpful in theorizing this topic. I'm constantly amazed at how we have formed opinions of people we don't see, hear, or even truly know. We don't say, "the Christian terrorists who lynched Black men in post World War II south." We don't say, "the Christian doctors who practiced involuntary sterilization on women such as Fannie Lou Hamer in 1950's Mississippi." We don't do that at all. But we ALWAYS identify the word 'terrorist' with the West's neo-contemporary Untouchables - Muslims. While they remain, in definitive terms only, as an exemplar of Spivak's subaltern; a multitudinous unspoken minority indeed.
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:
--The following essays are quite informative in understanding the conflation of the concepts Islam and Muslim:Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz. 2000. "The Representation of Islam, Arabs and Muslims...." International Journal of Communication 12, 2:103-117."Is the Life of the Muslim Arab and/or Muslim?"Nadine Nober. 2008. "'Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!' Cultural Racism, Nation-Based Racism, and Intersectionality of Oppressions after 9/11." The Scholar and Feminist Online 6, 3."Arab at ASU: Building Bridges."M. Lo and Aman Nadhiri. 2010. "Contextualizing 'Muridiyyah' within the American Muslim Community." African Journal of Political Science and International Relations 4, 6:231-40.G. C. David. "Studying the xotic Other in the Classroom: The Portrayal of Arab..."
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