Monday, September 24, 2012
are muslims nuts?
In spite of the provocative title, Are Muslims Nuts? by Haroon Moghul is actually one of the more thoughtful and thought-provoking discussions of the whole Innocence of Muslims affair that I've seen.
azhar ahmed and the limits of free speech
The current controversy over the film Innocence of Muslims has got me thinking about the ways in which the West has its own taboos and sacred cows which potentially trump freedom of speech. One very recent example is the case of Azhar Ahmed, a 19 in West Yorkshire who was convicted of posting an offensive message on Facebook in the wake of the deaths of six UK soldiers in Afghanistan.
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
jumah at the dnc
The Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs is holding a Jumah Prayer at the Democratic National Convention along with a series of other Muslim events. I'm hoping the conspiracy theories don't get too thick.
totally radical muslims
Totally Radical Muslims Presents: Islamophopia, A Bitchin’ Zine! seems like an amazing project. I wish I could get a copy.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Monday, August 06, 2012
the sense of white supremacy
Racist attacks are authorized by a political culture that allows us to think in nativist terms, to bemoan the “browning” of America. By 2034, the Census department estimates, the non-white population of the US is going to be in the majority. With the political class unwilling to reverse the tide of jobless growth and corporate power, the politicians stigmatize the outsider as the problem of poverty and exploitation. This stigmatization, as Moishe Postone argues, obscures “the role played by capitalism in the reproduction of grief.” Far easier to let the Sikhs and the Latinos, the Muslims and the Africans bear the social cost for economic hopelessness and political powerlessness than to target the real problem: the structures that benefit the 1% and allow them to luxuriate in Richistan.
From Shooting at the Gurdwara: The Sense of White Supremacy by Vijay Prashad
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
"on a quiet day i can hear her breathing"
Our strategy should be not only to
confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To
shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our
stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness : and
our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the
ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse
if we refuse to buy what they are selling : their ideas, their version
of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
From: "Confronting Empire" by Arundhati Roy, Porto Alegre, Brazil January 27, 2003
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
tedx ramallah - mark gonzalez: wage beauty
Poet. Scholar. Lover of Life. Mark Gonzales is an HBO Def Poet with a Master's in Education, a Mexican and a Muslim, a Khalil Gibran meets Pablo Neruda in a lyrical break dance cypher, Mark lives in the center of intersections. From Palestinian refugee camps, universities in Beirut, foster homes in Portugal, to cities across the Americas, he transcends citizenship identity to break borders and wage beauty across continents through culture. He is respected internationally for his creative approaches to suicide prevention, human rights and human development via performance, photojournalism, and narrative therapy
See also:
Planet Grenada: mark gonzalez: audio intefadeh
Saturday, March 24, 2012
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