Islam is at the heart of an emerging global anti-hegemonic culture that combines diasporic and local cultural elements, and blends Arab, Islamic, black and Hispanic factors to generate "a revolutionary black, Asian and Hispanic globalization, with its own dynamic counter-modernity constructed in order to fight global imperialism. (say what!)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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
"bow your head!"
Ape Central: BOW YOUR HEAD!: Michael Clarke Duncan Has Passed Away
Guardian: Michael Clarke Duncan obituary
Guardian: Michael Clarke Duncan obituary
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
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