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Charlie Hebdo

Conflating Bigotry and Blasphemy

Brian K. Noe · January 15, 2015 ·

In an email interview to Vidya Venkat of The Hindu, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror, explained the difference between critiquing a religion and ridiculing it, and why it is one thing to oppose censorship and quite another thing to reprint Charlie Hebdo cartoons in solidarity.

“The problem with the ongoing discussion of Charlie Hebdo is that it tends to confuse bigotry with blasphemy. I am personally more favorable to blasphemy, but have no time for bigots or bigotry.”

Read the interview: ‘Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted’ – The Hindu.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Bigotry, Charlie Hebdo, France, Islam, Religion, Terrorism

A Muslim Reflects on Charlie

Brian K. Noe · January 13, 2015 ·

Food Blogger Sadia Jabeen writes about what it is like to be Muslim in the wake of the Paris attack.

“When I first heard the news about the events in Paris this week I felt a real sadness at the loss of life. Nobody should expect to be gunned down in their place of work. Again I felt that sense of dread and worry. Who was going to be made to pay for the crimes of the people they had never met or had anything to do with? Were we going to see a further rise of racism and Islamophobia? Where will it end? Unfortunately I wasn’t wrong…”

Read the full essay: I have been very quiet online since the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices and here’s why | Make Tea & Cake, Not War.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Oppression

March for “Shut Up, Slave”

Brian K. Noe · January 13, 2015 ·

Read This: One Student’s Epic Tweets Call Out the Biggest Hypocrites Marching for Free Speech In Paris – Mic.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Charlie Hebdo, Shut Up Slave

Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie

Brian K. Noe · January 9, 2015 ·

Perhaps the best thing I have read on the murders in Paris (and their aftermath) – from Scott Long:

Nothing is quick, nothing is easy. No solidarity is secure. I support free speech. I oppose all censors. I abhor the killings. I mourn the dead. I am not Charlie.

Read the full essay: Why I am not Charlie | a paper bird.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Bigotry, Charlie Hebdo, Paris, Terror, Terrorism

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