Blowing up travellers and such
Jul. 13th, 2006 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyBut I thought that Bush started the Cedar Revolution and Lebanon was all shiny and happy now. At least, that's what that Right Brothers song said. o__O
Also, why is hardly anyone talking about the train bombings in India?
In media news, Andrew Cash has this patronizing article in NOW about On Our Own Terms: Muslim Youth Speak Out at UofT. Now, I didn't go to it or anything, being neither a Muslim youth or a UofT student, but it sounds like it was an interesting event that featured a broad degree of opinions. What is cringe-worthy are Cash's assertions that "progressive" Muslims like Irshad Manji are being silenced by the rest of the community, just Cash's father rejected progressive Catholics* back in the day, expressed in passages like this:
This is a lefty rag, by the way, and this is a presumably lefty writer. At least he makes the point that there's no way our Toronto Turrists can get a fair trial. Oy.
* Additionally, I wonder at his definition of what constitutes a progressive Catholic. Cash isn't talking about Liberation Theologists, I don't think; he's talking about people who wanted Mass in languages other than Latin.
Also, why is hardly anyone talking about the train bombings in India?
In media news, Andrew Cash has this patronizing article in NOW about On Our Own Terms: Muslim Youth Speak Out at UofT. Now, I didn't go to it or anything, being neither a Muslim youth or a UofT student, but it sounds like it was an interesting event that featured a broad degree of opinions. What is cringe-worthy are Cash's assertions that "progressive" Muslims like Irshad Manji are being silenced by the rest of the community, just Cash's father rejected progressive Catholics* back in the day, expressed in passages like this:
It left me wondering if some of these youth see themselves as Muslims who happen to also be Canadian or Canadians who happen to be Muslim.I don't see anything reactionary or crypto-reactionary in Malik's words. Is it possible that she just, I don't know, thinks that it's perfectly fine that different voices represent the Muslim community?
"We don't see a contradiction between our Canadian identity and our Muslim identity. We are both," says Malik. "But it is jarring when that identity is called into question. You know, like: Which are you more, Muslim or Canadian? People don't think about it. This is home."
When I ask Malik who should speak for the Muslim community in the media, the soft-spoken poli-sci student chooses her words carefully.
"Well, we are a community with a diversity of voices, and maybe it's about time we accept and deal with that," she says. "There's no way that one voice can represent the whole community."
This is a lefty rag, by the way, and this is a presumably lefty writer. At least he makes the point that there's no way our Toronto Turrists can get a fair trial. Oy.
* Additionally, I wonder at his definition of what constitutes a progressive Catholic. Cash isn't talking about Liberation Theologists, I don't think; he's talking about people who wanted Mass in languages other than Latin.
