"Was it appropriate for her to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a Muslim?" he wrote. "Was it done to stick one in the eye of the ordinary viewer who looks at the hijab as a sign of the slavery of Muslim women by a male-dominated and clearly violent religion?"
Obviously, every time a Christian kills someone we can't have a Christian reporter telling us about it. Or every time a white person kills someone, we can't possibly tolerate a Caucasian journalist. That would just be completely unacceptable, obviously.
Good grief.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36833471
I'm sure there was a time, long ago, when racism was deplored rather than celebrated. It seems a vague memory now. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteAlun Jones I come from a line of hardcore racists. My father was the first to break that tradition. Black people were invited to my parents' wedding: his father and mother did not speak to them until well after I was born.
ReplyDeleteWe like to think such prejudices can be overcome, that time goes on, that ignorance is eventually evicted from the public's mind. But it's not true. It's always there, it's just covered over more carefully, spoken about in more guarded tones, much as we learn not to tell dirty jokes or fart loudly in polite company. And we're all afflicted with it.
I've worked with refugees most of my adult life. I've worked with many different races and tribes of people. I'd like to think I'm not a bigot. May I make a confession? I've come to despise the Somalis. They're violent, they beat their women, lots of trouble with sending their kids to school. They fight among themselves, they fight with their neighbours, our group caught one of them trying to sell a girl. And they quickly gravitated to crime. And worse, they gravitate to terrorism. They're a huge problem in the world of refugee resettlement. Lots of groups won't work with them anymore: they attack the aid workers. If it were in my power, I wouldn't let any more Somalis into the USA.
Am I a bigot?
I grew up among Muslims in Niger Republic, I never thought much about it, since everyone around me was a Muslim. Maliki / Sufi mostly, kind of a veneer religion, nice enough people. Nobody particularly hated us. Some did. But not like the Somalis. These Somali hated us because we were Christian. I've never once asked for gratitude but I've never encountered that degree of hatred as I did from the Somalis.
Islam's a tiny little religion, almost nothing to it. Tiny little holy book, the Holy Qu'ran, fewer words in it than some of Shakespeare's plays. Very cleanly and admirable, in many ways. I don't think Islam is a religion of violence. But then, I know a little more about Islam. I know that a Maliki with Sufi tendencies is not a vicious little Somali wahhabi trying to sell his own child into prostitution.
I'm just a more sophisticated bigot. And I suspect everyone else is, too.
Dan Weese http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
ReplyDeleteOliver Hamilton Oh I see a lot of that sort of thing. Fact is, Kelvin MacKenzie is a fat Tory boor with one O-Level and everyone knows it, including himself, that arse-biter. Fatima Manji graduated from LSE and wears a hijab and Kelvin MacKenzie isn't fit to shine her shoes.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Sun, so it's shit.
ReplyDeleteShe looks so cool and stylish whereas he doesn't.
ReplyDeleteShe speaks lots of humane sense and he doesn't.
She has never accused anybody of causing mayhem at a football match whereas he ....