End of year dreck
The New Statesman – it’s sad. Emad Ahmed tells us about his year in Islamophobia. If his piece were all about people shouting on buses and attacking in the street and Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump, I’d agree with him, but this is the Staggers, so of course it’s not.
It’s so alarmingly difficult to identify as a Muslim today. I’m having to prove my sensible existence in a world dominated by dramatic headlines and tweets. The Charlie Hebdo attacks proved this. The whole purpose of that silly magazine (which has made international headlines in the past) is simply to offend, a degree above satire.
No.it.isn’t. It’s an anti-racist magazine, a magazine of the left. Its whole purpose is to resist the Trumps and Le Pens, as well as the Islamists. That doesn’t mean anyone has to like it, it says nothing about its quality, but it just is not true that its whole purpose is to offend.
Of course everyone has the right to be offensive and annoying (within the limits of the law), but why bother? The response to those attacks was Islamophobia, pure and simple, fuelling exactly what Islamofascists across the globe love.
Pure and simple? Hardly. Maybe that’s his problem: he thinks he sees simple (crude) facts when he doesn’t. Of course the response to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo and the streets outside and the Kosher supermarket was not Islamophobia pure and simple – what a disgusting, callous, self-involved thing to say. The response was grief and fear and anger, and even the anger was mostly at fanatical Islamist murderers, not Islam itself, let alone at all Muslims.
The New Statesman shouldn’t be publishing simple-minded shite like this. It should do better.
“A degree above satire” is an interesting put-down. I take it satire itself is now officially a Bad Thing, not a literary mode with a long and perfectly noble history.
Yes that’s very odd, isn’t it.
The poor lamb is sad, is in a permanent state of ‘face palm’ and feels terrorized. Compared to that the fate of Nigerian school girls, the Yazidis or spectators at The Bataclan is but a detail.
No…it’s all about him, his ‘victimization’ and his shitty islamophobia. What a pathological display of self pity.
Does this dipstick think that millions of Muslims are fleeing to Europe and America in a desperate search for islamophobia?
If only those niggers weren’t so uppity, we’d never have to worry about the Klan!
Behind all the Professional Offendedness is the basic message: shut up and obey and MAYBE we’ll let you live.
Still, generic American assholery is running amok. A hijab-wearing acquaintance is having nightmares and retreating indoors. Just the way the Taliban would want her to.
Yes, indeed, “Shut up Kuffars!”. There’s probably more to this than simple self-pity, it’s the attitude of the Brahmin, the Christian theocrat, or any member of a self-designated supremacist class, it’s rather disturbing.
Essentially the complaint is that Muslims aren’t being shown due deference.
“If you believe you’re Napoleon or a poached egg, you’re in an asylum. If you believe in winged horses you’re a New Statesman journalist.”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/629818/Richard-Dawkins-Islam-Muslims-rant
I word of advice for anyone commenting on Al Guardian’s site—-don’t describe Islam as a ‘toxic ideology’, apparently that is ‘against community standards’, no prizes for guessing which community.