Muslim-refusenik

Saiba AQUI o que é um "muslim-refusenik".

Da autora já li este livro.Publicado pela primeira vez no Canada em 2003. Recomendo. De autores islâmicos é dos poucos que condena de uma forma clara os silêncios islâmicos sobre o fanatismo, radicalismo, terrorismo...e também os chamados moderados ( a maioria curiosamente silenciosos !!)

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" .... A few weeks before 11 September, I joined a panel of Muslims on national TV to " discuss images of the Islamic world". Taking this politely worded invitation as a euphemism for "let´s complain about the West", my fellow panellists indulged in the usual castigating of North American pop culture : Hollywood casts us all as fanatics, the fanatics always look swarthy, and every other standard line in the victims' canon. Bored with an argument-on-autopilot, I proposed a different line : that we Muslims don't give people much incentive to see us as anything but monolithic. Where, I asked, were Muslims in Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal when the Taliban toppled the pre-islamic statues of Buddha that overlooked Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley ? "Let there be no compulsion in religion," says the Koran. We couldn´t expect the Taliban to sing that tune, but why didn't Muslims in the West choose to sing it rather than remain mostly mute ? Why the absence of mass Muslim protests in our own streets ?

I waited.

The sole response from another Muslim woman - an active feminist, no less. " Manji", she blurted " do you know what's happening to Muslims in Palestine ?". Excuse me ?! Somebody return me to earth , or transport my butt to a part of the solar system where we distinguish between justice and justification. I'll give her this much : there's obviously some relationship between the rise of Islamic totalitarianism and the intractable politics of the Middle East. But how did that textured relationship justify Muslim silence in the West toward the scripturally supremacist, Buddha-bombing, woman-pulverising, kite-banning, execution-enamoured Taliban ? "

Dedicado a todos os que estão sempre com a boca cheia de justiça !

P.S. : Sublinhado meu.