Links of interest for the week ending in November 28, 2009. Mourning tongues - The National Newspaper After his death at age 67, the late poems of Mahmoud Darwish have found new life in translation. Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Being Muslim at the wrong time in America "Post 9/11, America has declared war on Islam with the FBI in the lead at home. It notoriously targets the vulnerable, entraps them with paid informants, inflates bogus charges, spreads them maliciously through the media, then intimidates juries to convict and sentence innocent men and some women to long prison terms. Justice is nearly always denied. At times wilful killings are committed. The Detroit Muslims are their latest victims." Tasnim: Postcolonial And Diasporic Representations Of Muslim Women Paper on Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (admittedly, I haven't read either). Saudi Arabia goes to war | Mai Yamani | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk If you haven't gotten a chance to read up on Saudi Arabia's grossly under-reported war in Yemen, this article is a good start. Al-Masry Al-Youm: Football row: A civilized reaction "In reaction to the post-match violence in Sudan, several prominent Egyptian commentators have called for boycotting Algerian products and events. Bekhiet, however, believes such hasty and emotional reactions to be counterproductive. “Next we'll be boycotting Libya over a tennis match or Saudi Arabia over a basketball game,” he said. “We're suffering from a national hallucination. Is our national history to be written in a football stadium?”"
It is sadly ironic how much pro-government commentators and media are calling to boycott Algeria, but are far more timid to discuss boycotting the two biggest threats to Egypt and the region as a whole: Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
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i enjoyed the Steve Lendman article. it points at some important dynamics.
generally, i think there is a lack of discussion on the ideas that are being attributed -- however (in)accurate they are -- to Imam Abdullah. this is being correctly framed as a racist attack by the state, an emboldening of vigilante forces, and support for the "war on terror" (read: war on Muslims).
some notes:
1. the right to defend our communities and community organizations
2. the right to self-determination in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan; and the right to community control in our neighborhoods in the US -- not by the racist Po or the FBI
3. a general frustration by Imam Abdullah with the lack of organized resistance by American Muslim organizations (think CAIR & ADC), that leads to ultra-left conclusions
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