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Via Assad Abdi The Islam-shaming industry is about more than just racism and xenophobia Tied up with these phenomena is an Orientalist habit of asserting power and containing the “Other” by forcing negative self-identification—in this case, by compelling Muslims to define themselves via collective self-denunciation. In a post-9/11 dispatch ever so slightly sensationally titled “World War III,” New York Timesforeign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman launched what would become a career-long tradition of lambasting the Muslim world for a perceived failure to adequately condemn terrorism: “Surely Islam, a grand religion that never perpetrated the sort of Holocaust against the Jews in its midst that Europe did, is being distorted when it is treated as a guidebook for suicide bombing. How is it that not a single Muslim leader will say that?” middleeasteye.net/columns/muslim-s-guide-self-condemnation-853371649
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:15:56 +0000

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