only decent leftist on palestine
foxodroid
joined 4 years ago
I really loved Suzaku's character actually. Not as a hero or anything, he's super hateable but as a representation of the archetypical "uncle tom" you inevitably find in colonial struggles. He's unexpectedly on point.
Those who insult Islam have done nothing wrong; but those insulting Islam to hurt and marginalize Muslims within society are no better than any other bigot.
this sounds like a catch-22. if anti-Muslim criticism is indistinguishable from well intentioned one then it sounds easy to just accuse everyone of being anti-muslim.
Terrorist attacks in response to such expression is already systematically opposed, so what more do you want?
i want criticism of religion to be normalized.
If I thought that via Mohamed cartoons within three years we would have millions more ex-Muslims; then absolutely publish away. But this same shit has been going on for over a decade and I don’t think it’s working.
But it is. 10 years ago you wouldn't even hear of the concept of atheism or LGBT people, you'd never hear of people criticizing Islam at all and now you see people on TV do it. Now you see scholars scurry to prove Aisha was 18 when she had sex with Mohamed, declaring sexual harassment to be a sin and arguing maybe *don't * kills the gays and the converts. Normalizing topics works, of course there will be resistance. Sometimes violent but ultimately it works. Dawkins gets a lot of well deserved flack but his edgelord book and common public appearances did reach here, all the way in the Arab world. His book on atheism, got translated unofficially and downloaded over 10 million times from one site.
He's a religious figure and the guy's been dead for 1400 . How can anyone be possibly bigoted against that?
I'm tired of this shit. Comparing a racial slur with mild religious criticism or even pointless mockery is an extremely dumb take. Especially in a context where someone got beheaded over it
How the hell is satirising a highly questionable religious figure the same as the n-word now? We fans of religious authority now?
he recounted the anger and desire for vengeance he felt when he saw the video—and how he later reconsidered and regretted those impulses, saying they made him feel “gross and guilty.” But it gave him the kernel of a story.
how magnanimous of him.
The mentioned lynching of the 2 soldiers were after they were arrested in Ramallah during the Intifada. You know, the revolt where IDF soldiers gunned down civilians from helicopters, ran over protestors in military vehicles including children, destroyed houses as collective punishment. In the 2 weeks before the lynching alone 20+ Palestinian children were killed by them.
He's horrified about when the Palestinians killed 2 enemy soldiers on Palestinian land tho. 2 Soldiers who weren't even born there. They were literally Russian immigrants who chose to be settler-colonists and join the Apartheid's army.
He literally could've just said THAT which is the **obvious ** than hand the Zionist propaganda machine this one. They're already milking it. It's all over the place.
For fuck's sake, Israel has bombs that penetrate 30 meters into the ground he could've just said that too.