Hamid Dabashi The Hagop Kevorkian
Professor of Iranian Studies and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University. writes on these Muhammad cartoons/movies blasphemy articles etc..
This is what That Professor writes with that above picture at
this limk Blasphemy: Time for Muslim soul searching;
Much of the scandalous consequences are attributable to an active history of hostility between the West and the Islam.
Now that the public protest, violent or otherwise, in response to the recent cases of blasphemy against Islam have by and large subsided, and the world is distracted by other atrocities, Muslims need to sit down for a moment and ask themselves some serious questions before yet another lunatic or career opportunist in Europe or a charlatan loser in the US comes out and says "jump" and Muslims around the world fume "how high?"
The scenes are exceedingly unseemly and unbecoming of a world on the cusp of reimagining itself for its posterity.
The cases of the movie clip The Innocence of Muslims (2012) and before that the late Theo van Gogh's Submission (2004), based on a script by the notorious Islamophobe Ayaan Hirsi Ali's plagiarised script, and before that the Danish cartoons ridiculing Prophet Muhammad, and before that the Salman Rushdie affair over the publication of his Satanic Verses (1988) and many other similar incidents all come together to raise the question of "blasphemy" among Muslims today.
Look at that., This fool who could not survive in Iran moves in to US of A and gets his MS., Ph.Ds from Amrika becomes Professor in one of those UTTERLY useless department supported by AMRIKA taxpayers money and sitting prettily is US of A writes rubbish all over Middle Eastern news papers on exiles of Iranians due to bloody regime over there and writes about juice and Zionism and against amrika drinking amerikan juicy juice every day. great man couples stupid movie with Theo van Gogh's Submission, Islamophobe Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses. So he puts everything together
similar to Islam where Muhammad was put together along with Christ and Moses so a nut case. criminal character could be made as Prophet of all times.. .. well let us read bit more..
Why so much fury over so little substance? Whence such a thin skin in a world so thick with atrocities? The question is of paramount concern to all Muslims, and no cleric, no imam, no ayatollah, no self-appointed "religious authority", and certainly no chimerical construction called "religious intellectuals" - some of them now actively confusing the halls of the university with the pulpits of the mosques (giving testimony to Max Weber's premonition of calling them "academic prophets") - is in an exclusive position to define what "blasphemy" is or to presume to speak as if Prophet Muhammad would on current subjects!
yes why? why so many murders & mayhem because of that stupid movie?? Because fools like you can not differentiate between constructive criticism of Islam and STUPID movies.
Morons like you sitting in west writing rubbish in eastern newspapers support Baboons of Islam in East,. That is the reason why there is so much fury about that youtube clip...
Much of the heated and at times violent reactions to these depictions of Prophet Muhammad and/or insults to the Holy Quran have had to do with the European and North American origins of these productions. Although Ayaan Hirsi Ali and before her Salman Rushdie were Muslims (though of the kind that think themselves to be "secular" and "ex-Muslim", and such, as they say), but the country in which they had initiated their deliberately and consciously insulting acts were in the domain of what Muslims are wont of calling "the West".
Much of the scandalous consequences of their act were thus attributable to an active history of hostility between this "West" and the "Islam" that has emerged in historic conversation and contestation with it. "The West", so the story went, was actively hostile to "Islam" and here was an example of it. Such acts of blasphemy were initiated in "the West", in the languages of the West (Dutch, Danish, or English, French, etc.) - though their perpetrators were at least nominally (ex)-Muslims.
You fool knowing well you are talking nonsense., you know well, People are insulting Muhammad and Islam because of what is there in hadith/sunnah and Quran ., and west hostile to Islam because what baboons of Islam have done and doing in west as well as in east.. Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Salman Rushdie and millions of other ex-Muslims realize what a dangerous political ideology Islam is
and after reading all that hadith/sunnah and Quran every one realizes how foolish the people are to make Islam as religion..
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Our task is to rethink the public space in which we as Arabs or Iranians or Afghans or Muslims ought to live for our collective sanity. Towards that task we may ask ourselves the reaction to an Iranian rapper named Shahin Najafi. According to the Guardian:
An Iranian rapper has become "the Salman Rushdie of music" after clerics in the Islamic republic issued fatwas calling him an apostate, which is considered punishable by death under the country's sharia law.
Shahin Najafi, a Germany-based Iranian singer, recently released a song with references to Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, the 10th of the 12 Shia Muslim imams, a religious figure highly respected by millions in Iran.
The Germany-based, Najafi's song was not in German or any other European language, but was in Persian, specifically for his vast fan-base in and out of Iran. Why a fatwa against him? Or even beyond the limited circle of the Shia clerics, the choral outcry of these "religious intellectuals" because they thought a Shia imam had been insulted?
Let's now look at a Bahraini blogger. According to Gulfnews:
A Bahraini blogger accused of posting abusive remarks targeting Aisha, the wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), has been remanded in custody for another 45 days.
The defendant, 19, was arrested last week for posting the "highly negative comments" in a forum … The defendant admitted the charges, saying that his attitude was in retaliation to alleged insults by online users to Shiite figures …
"The competent authorities should apply the maximum penalty against him to ensure there is no repeat of attacks on the Prophet or his family or companions," Khalid Al Malood, a lawmaker in the lower chamber, said. "We need to ensure that our society is genuinely protected from any form of sedition and this can be done by carrying out the maximum penalty," he said.
Al Asala, the exclusive expression of Salafism in Bahrain, last month introduced a bill that stipulates the death penalty or life in prison for anyone found guilty of insulting God or abusing the Prophet, his wife Aisha, or his companions.
This case is even more integral to the sectarian clashes entirely domestic to Islam and Muslims - has absolutely nothing to with "the West" or any design it may have to humiliate Muslims.
The same source, the Gulfnews, also reports:
In neighbouring Kuwait on June 4, Hamad Al Naqi was sentenced to 10 years in prison for posting remarks that were deemed blasphemous.
The 26-year-old Kuwaiti was found guilty of harming Kuwait's interests with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, two fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
The charges were based on a number of tweets made from his account, but Al Naqi said that it had been hacked.
Kuwait's parliament, dominated by tribesmen and Islamists, has passed a bill stipulating the death penalty for insulting God or the Prophet. However, the bill, which needs to be endorsed by the Emir before it can be implemented, has been returned to the lawmakers.
Death penalty for a tweet about the Prophet - really? Why? Again, this Kuwaiti case has absolutely nothing to do with a Danish cartoonist or a Hollywood film clip? Financial Times had also reported that:
Kuwait's parliament approved a law that calls for the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad, his wives and relatives, in a sign of the growing sway of Islamists who triumphed in elections this year.
And what does it exactly mean this is the case because the Islamists have won the election? Who exactly are these "Islamists?" Are all Muslim Islamists? Who said so - and by what authority? All these terms - "Islamists", "Jihadists", "Muslim moderates" - they camouflage more than they clear our reading of the matter. The cases are numerous. According to BBC:
No evidence has been found against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy by burning pages of the Quran, police have told a court in Pakistan.
A police official told the court in the capital Islamabad that there were indications that a cleric at a nearby mosque had tampered with the evidence.
The girl - known as Rimsha - was detained on blasphemy charges in July and has since been granted bail.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws have been criticised for being open to misuse.
Critics of the laws say it is often used to target minorities.
What about the Jewish, Christian, Baha'i, Zoroastrian, or any other non-Muslims living in our societies? Do they not have civil liberties that include freedom of expression, however some such expressions we might find offensive? Are our future societies to be made entirely of Muslims, of Sunni Muslims, of the Salafi sort - as they call themselves?
Aren't Copts Egyptians - and are they not entitled to their civil liberties? According to reports:
The trial opened on Wednesday of an Egyptian Copt accused of blasphemy after posting on the Internet an anti-Islam video that sparked violent protests worldwide, an AFP reporter said.
Albert Saber, 27, was arrested at his home in Cairo on September 13 after neighbors alerted authorities that he had posted clips from "Innocence of Muslims" on social networking sites.
What the fuck are you writing about picking up news slips on persecuted people because they are writing against nonsense that is called Islam?? So what did you do to support these folks?
write against Islamophobe Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses ??.. Go read Ali Sina of Faith freedom international .. he is also from Iran like you.. Foool..
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"Tolerance" here does not mean a passive recipient of any insult that is hurtled your way, or a "turning of the other cheek" that the bloody history of the crusades from? Godfrey of Bouillon and after to George Bush and beyond categorically belies, but a more principled and purposeful transmutation of legitimate anger into public reason to reassert Muslim agency in history. In the formation of that vast and expansive public space we articulate our civil liberties against domestic and foreign abuse alike.
Not all Muslims are what European and North American media calls "Islamists" - whatever it is they mean by that chimeric construction - nor these "Islamists", whoever they are, have a total or exclusive claim on the ancestral faith of 1.3 billion human beings.
We as Muslims, all of us - and no clerical order or "religious intellectual" (as they call themselves) has the right to represent us - must collectively escort our sanctities into our public domains, breathe in them the fragility and the fallibility of our worldly existence, let them learn of the banalities we live, and let them learn the language of the indignities we experience, and thus let them learn how to teach us the intuition of the sacred we need to face up to this world
....Off course it is not.. the last thing Islam teaches is peaceful way solving problems.. well if they write Insults .. why can not you defend it and educate the public what they are doing has no basis and wrong?? You know why??
You fool they are there in Islam. those guys taking things from Islamic book to insult Islam and its prophet. If you don't know that much you are NOT fit to be a professor in a college. That too teaching about religions.
They will not be diminished by this worldly existence - they will have a new rendezvous with our history on that twilight zone of sanctity and profanity, assuredness and uncertainty.
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His forthcoming book Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body is scheduled for publication in October.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.
Well That is what he writes about Muslim Baboons + Monkeys and Blasphemy .. well read the rest from that AMRIKAN professor at the link..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHoCiBhZ_0Damn .. either he is a fool or has FORKED TONGUE..
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