Pius, to go deeper into your posting. The terrorists don't self-advertise? What media outlets do they own? Christians don't say they're Christians when they're killing? Did you miss the parts of World War II when the planes carrying the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were blessed by a priest?
In Christian love and Muslim brotherhood, I remain your humble servant,
La Vonda
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Pius Adesanmi <piusadesanmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
La Vonda:
The answer is quite simple and self evident. It is no one's fault that Christian terrorists do not always self-advertise as Christians at the exact moment of sword's contact with the neck. Do you have any evidence that those Christian terrorists in the antebellum south screamed "in Jesus name!" "in Jesus name!" as they lynched their black victims? I thought they screamed their superior race and not their religion?
Today, do you hear screams of "in Jesus name" when two or three racist dunderheads gather in the tea party or the birther movement to denigrate Obama? Do you hear: Obama, you're a monkey or a macaca in the mighty name of Jesus? America's contemporary racist terrorists won't even own up to their racism let alone scream that they do those things in the name of Jesus Christ and their religion. The best you'll get is the loaded we are defending "our values".
Well, go to northern Nigeria. Shouts of "Allahu akbar" is often the last thing the infidel hears from the Almajiri mob before the sword kisses the neck in broad daylight.
Some of us lived in Nigeria's core north. Some of us have our entire extended families there even as we write - perpetually marked as the non-believer, permanent potential targets of the sword of Allahu Akbar-screaming mobs. You will understand why this is reality beyond the poco-pomo diction of Gayatri Spivak for us.
Blame the terrorists for the association of Islam with terrorism in the global subconscious. They are the ones who damage their religion and identity. That is where the problem you are talking about starts. Don't blame the victims. The victims aren't responsible for the imagery of the Talibanic-bearded, Allahu-Akbar-screaming, sword-swinging mob. Lavonda, when you get the time, do google Gideon Akaluka, Grace Ushang, and Christiana Oluwasesin and read up on them. Trust me, you won't return here talking theory and Spivak if you read up on those names.
Blame Moslem intellectuals like Bangura and too many of his counterparts from northern Nigeria who articulate meretricious discourses and praxes of attenuation - comforted by the American nonsense that is political correctness - rather than face the problem head-on. One is no longer in the mood to comfort attenuators like Bangura by feeding them Spivakian abstractions intravenously to make them feel-good.
I find it also annoying that the bad rap they believe Islam is getting is even more important to these attenuators than the lives of victims.
Pius
--- On Thu, 5/5/11, Lavonda Staples <lrstaples@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Lavonda Staples <lrstaples@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Conflation Of The Concepts Arab And Muslim
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, 5 May, 2011, 3:12In 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.
La Vonda R. StaplesOn 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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