“This is part of the character of Great Britain. Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.” So says novelist Wole Soyinka, in order to justify his assertion that Britain is a “cesspit of Islamists.” Innate arrogance? Postcolonial piffle!
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plimfix
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plimfix
The British government’s Prevent anti-terrorism strategy has been educating young Muslims about ‘propaganda’. Only I wouldn’t call it education. I’d call it indoctrination. But perhaps that’s because I subscribe to Terry Pratchett’s ideals on education: build a library, and open the doors.
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johnpi
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Fatemeh
This week on MMW, we look at a French Muslim women’s magazine, discuss the book/movie Brick Lane, examine whiteness and ideal Islamic womanhood in Malaysia, critic BBC reporting on South Asian drug users in the U.K., welcome a new Muslim women’s site to the internets, and link it up like it’s 1999.
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kaitlin
NYT article “Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice.” A good read with some interesting cultural-specific adaptions of Sharia. My favorite quote is from a father testifying in court to get his daughter released form the commitment. This was the deal-breaker:
“He was not a cucumber that we could cut open to know that he was rotten inside,” the father testified. “The only solution is divorce.”
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thabet
Mark Curtis (The Web of Deceit, Unpeople) has a new book out in October of this year:
Sticking with the Brotherhood, Angry Arab explans why he hates their Jordanian branch the most.
