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[QUOTE]The ACLU fanatics [/QUOTE}
who are these people? do they exist in the real world? i know they walk about in right ideology, much like the muslim=terrorist couple does.
the problem with the thread from the outset is that it was and remains framed by a basically conservative understanding of the questions at hand, and so it (the thread) works mostly as a symptom of just how difficult it is to switch ways of thinking once that framework is in place.
i remain completely unconvinced by this type of argument: i think that it does, in fact, substitue racism for thought, the appearance of coherent response for coherent response. it contributes to positions like powerclowns, which simply refuses to think about islam in differentiated terms while at the same time wrapping itself in the discourse of "realism"--and the sad reality is that racism in this case can be spun as "realism"....
i have not seen--ever--from anyone on the right a single attempt to situate "islamic fundmentalism" socially or historically. i have not seen a single person from the right even start to consider the sorry usage that, say the algerian government put to the f.i.s.---no consideration whatsoever of the question of how the present administration is instrumentalizing the notion of "islamic fundamentalism" for its own political ends--nothing, not once. i draw from this the conclusion that the ideology renders folk incapable of thinking in differentiated terms about this, and that there is something functional for them about that incapacity.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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