wise and well said .. Lucas Koerner : I do think Ms. Sarsour hits home on a number of points, particularly when she exposes the hypocritical double standards of the corporate media, in which White supremacist terror (i.e. the NAACP bombing) as well as the terror of imperialist war (i.e Iraq) is systematically ignored. However, I really take issue with her closing remarks when she calls for unity between French Christians and French Muslims against the terrorists. What she effectively does is enforce the colonial dichotomy of good Muslim/bad Muslim: if only the Islamophobic fascists could recognize the difference between us, good, loyal Muslims, and them, the radical Islamists. There is nothing subversive about this statement, and even George Bush could get behind it. Her call for bourgeois equality between French Christians and French Muslims is dangerously illusory, for Arab and Muslim peoples in France will never be equal so long as their countries remain beneath the boot heel of Western neo-colonial domination. What we need is not multiculturalist tolerance, but revolutionary decolonization of both France and the Islamic and Arab worlds. In this regard, the violence of ISIS amounts to little more than chickens coming home to roost insofar as ISIS represents the internalization in inverted form of Western colonialist discourse (orientalism): ISIS openly embraces the very orientalist caricature of the Muslim world reproduced by Western colonial epistemology, namely Muslims as barbaric, pre-modern, misogynistic, etc. ISIS as internalized, inverted coloniality is the hideous doppelganger to our seemingly pristine, enlightened Western modernity.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:08:49 +0000
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