Remember after 9/11 when there was the big uproar (and I agree with it) about not blaming all Muslims for what Atta's crew did? And how we all felt racist and horrible because some idiots who can't tell the different turban styles apart attacked some Sikhs?
I certainly remember feeling a sense of responsiblity.
So when the HELL is someone going to start foisting those feelings on the Muslims running rampant in France? Or in Gaza? Or ANYWHERE?
The de facto institutionalised oppression of The Other throughout the West, based on a postlogical pseudoism that strives to deny the richness and diversity of Arab culture - superior in most ways to the cold, calculating West in its sheer warmth and human endeavour - fosters feelings of neglect and isolation among those whom our societies should treasure the most for their potential contributions, ie the Muslim youth, instead of imprisoning them within a nefarious web of welfare benefits and foisting a "criminal" subexistence upon them: like the tortured of Abu Ghraib, they lash out at the injustice and inequality around them - and who are we to judge such acts of legitimate, healthy resistance?
Ryan, you forgot to add "Professor" in front of your name.
I'm busy writing a paper about how post-structuralist neo-colonialism is actually a trigger for the act of so-called "suicide" bombings (which the West view as negative); because in reality (and what, really, is reality?) these acts of anti-imperialist defiance are actually an example of victim-oppressor connection via self-detonation.
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Remember after 9/11 when there was the big uproar (and I agree with it) about not blaming all Muslims for what Atta's crew did? And how we all felt racist and horrible because some idiots who can't tell the different turban styles apart attacked some Sikhs?
I certainly remember feeling a sense of responsiblity.
So when the HELL is someone going to start foisting those feelings on the Muslims running rampant in France? Or in Gaza? Or ANYWHERE?
AFW, they are brown victims--the other--they can do no wrong. It's the West's fault.
The de facto institutionalised oppression of The Other throughout the West, based on a postlogical pseudoism that strives to deny the richness and diversity of Arab culture - superior in most ways to the cold, calculating West in its sheer warmth and human endeavour - fosters feelings of neglect and isolation among those whom our societies should treasure the most for their potential contributions, ie the Muslim youth, instead of imprisoning them within a nefarious web of welfare benefits and foisting a "criminal" subexistence upon them: like the tortured of Abu Ghraib, they lash out at the injustice and inequality around them - and who are we to judge such acts of legitimate, healthy resistance?
Ryan
Ryan, you forgot to add "Professor" in front of your name.
I'm busy writing a paper about how post-structuralist neo-colonialism is actually a trigger for the act of so-called "suicide" bombings (which the West view as negative); because in reality (and what, really, is reality?) these acts of anti-imperialist defiance are actually an example of victim-oppressor connection via self-detonation.
I think the Mohammedans who committed that murder should be guillotined. Maybe Le Pen would do it if he was French pres.
Ryan
Yeah, but Le Pen would make life hell for every minority, even the one's who behave themselves.
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