My latest at PJ Media:
Everyone knows who really holds the power in Western societies today: those who are supposed not to have any power. We’re told that everything is rigged (“systemic racism,” you know) in favor of white males, and poor people of color and women are routinely victimized by cruel and callous authorities who take apparent delight in their victimization and marginalization. In reality, today’s society is built on the privilege of being victimized and marginalized, and the more you have of either, or are perceived to have, the richer you are. All this has just been demonstrated anew by man in Britain who is very rich indeed in what counts today: he is both non-white and Muslim, and is parlaying his double-victim status into fame and fortune.
Eastern Eye, “Britain’s best known and most respected Asian weekly newspaper,” reported Wednesday that “an art exhibition exploring the ‘victimisation’ of Muslims in the UK and abroad is a response to the rise in racism against the community, its creator has said. Faisal Hussain’s Suspect Objects Suspect Subjects (SOSS) analyses the impact of government policy and monitoring of the Muslim community, the multi-faceted channels used to influence bias and its subsequent effect on individuals.”
If you’re in Britain, you can take in this world-historical artistic achievement, or opportunistic exercise in the manipulation of protected victimhood status, depending on your point of view, starting on May 18 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, in the university’s prestigious Brunei Gallery. If you can’t get to beautiful multicultural London this month, you can view the exhibit online.
And who would want to miss an exhibit such as this one? One of the artworks on display is a round sign emblazoned with the legend “We are here,” written in a pseudo-Arabic or pseudo-Urdu typeface. Another is a kebab shop sign featuring the declaration “Go back to where you hate from,” again written in the same pseudo-Arabic lettering. An array of cupcakes labeled “Prevent,” the name of Britain’s counterterror program, is meant to illustrate that program’s “positive facade but harmful core.” Stunning and brave!
There is more. Read the rest here.
Will Tyson says
31st Anglo-French War
https://youtu.be/us0mLqHnw7I
CogitoErgoSum says
I was taught that “Go back to where you hate from” is not good English. This is on a public sign at a university in Britain?
gravenimage says
This is supposed to be a “witty” twist on “go back to where you came from”–aiming the accusation of “hate” at anyone who doesn’t like being invaded by ravening Muslims.
And this “art” is installed outside a kabob shop somewhere in London.
CogitoErgoSum says
I guess I failed to see just how “witty” it is. I don’t see any artistic merit in it either but I suppose art is in the eye of the beholder. My initial reaction upon looking at it was that it appeared to express the words of a poorly educated person.
gravenimage says
I didn’t say I consider it witty, CogitoErgoSum–just that this is how it is intended.
Personally, I consider it ham-fisted propaganda with no artistic merit.
truth says
today’s society is built on the privilege of being victimized and marginalized, and the more you have of either, or are perceived to have, the richer you are.
BINGO…!!!!!!!.
Infidel says
Actually, that ‘Go back to where you hate from’ was written in a font called ‘Abu Dhabi font’, which looks Arabic even though in English. Like Gravenimage noted yesterday, hardly art: any one of us can download that font into Word or Wordpad, type the above sentence, and viola! We have something we can print and present to this ‘museum’!
gravenimage says
Thanks, Infidel.
Andrew Blackadder says
WHY is there a School of Oriental and African Studies at London University, as Im 100% sure there are no European or such like Studies in the Orient nor Africa.
Im surprised the Snowflake Brigade havent jumped on the “Oriental” label as perhaps they will call that racist.
The Brunei Gallery is own by the Sultan of Brunei and that is a country ruled by sharia and they recently made using the word … allah… forbidden to be used by those who are not muslim, even though this is an Arabic word and that country is not Arabic speaking, but then trying to find logic within islam is rather difficult, if not down right impossible.
Infidel says
Andrew, that’s what struck me as well, and it’s a part of a wider globalist problem w/ the Brits: they’ve not managed to shake off their colonial era interest in other countries. A few years ago, you had that Guardian reporter in Montana try to grill a congressional candidate (who’s now their governor), and get assaulted after he kept pestering him. But you won’t see American reporters in some remote corner of the UK grilling Tory or Labour candidates during their local elections. Similarly, even commonwealth countries (not counting Canada, Australia and New Zealand) don’t pry much into British affairs, but that doesn’t stop the Brits still snooping in everywhere
And in countries that have right wing governments, like in India, trying to topple them, like BBC and Guardian do, since the US, the #1 country w/ a right leaning government, has been taken down in this department, and so India and Brazil are the second most prominent countries w/ right wing governments. Even though American and Indian journalists and elitists are perfectly happy to leave the UK alone and let Brits elect whoever they want, the Brits have no idea of how to return the favor
As for Brunei, they’re doing exactly what Malaysia does: ban non-muslim speakers of the language from using the word ‘allah’ to denote god. On this one, I do think that those Malay speakers should use terms like ‘Begawan’ which does mean ‘God’
Andrew Blackadder says
Infidel: I am indeed a Brit however I left that island Nation in 1970, aged 21, and have lived all over the World, and currently live, for the last 20 plus years, in SE Asia.
gravenimage says
Yes–the Shari’ah state of Brunei is funding this Taqiyya.
Infidel says
The Saudis, Emirates and other Gulf countries have run out of money that they’ve at least stopped funding foreign dawa and jihad activities. Wonder how long will it be before Brunei too starts feeling the pinch?
gravenimage says
Hope so, Infidel.
“When the wells run dry in Brunei”
https://asiatimes.com/2017/04/wells-run-dry-brunei/
gravenimage says
Art Show Demonstrates Again That the ‘Marginalized’ Are Today’s New Elites
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This is so true.
tim gallagher says
Why that sign there with that script on it is, without a doubt, a freaking work of genius. Move over Sistine Chapel, this artist has left the art works there in the dust. It surpasses the paintings of Rembrandt, Turner, Renoir and all those other artists. Seriously, I find this stuff, this sign, is garbage and it isn’t clever or witty. I feel these days that the most ferocious racism seems to be the anti-white racism that dominates these days. That point of view that the system is rigged and blacks don’t have a chance and are always victimised seems like rubbish to me. Maybe they can’t get their act together. The Scientific Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, reasonably effective systems of government, etc all products of western civilisation, and they remade the world. Maybe I’m wrong, but I look at black African countries and they all seem to be a rabble. But I suppose that that is supposed to be all the white man’s fault and the system is rigged so those countries would fail. I suspect those countries fail because the people there can’t get their act together. The Islamic countries are a rabble because of Islam. Some are wealthy countries but only if they got lucky and happen to have oil. All this whingeing and victimhood these days is getting very boring.
OLD GUY says
These University courses and degrees in African, Black, Hispanic, and women studies etc. are propaganda and a sales pitch to draw students and tuition bucks. Wow a hundred grand in student loans and a degree in ———studies with virtually no job opportunity except fast food, or a college professorship teaching this same almost useless crap. Oh wait you could become a politician!
Valkyrie Ziege says
; This isn’t art, this is kindergarten pass-times.
IanB says
Phoney art – or PhArt for short
or if you prefer,
Fake art or, in short, FArt.
Take your pick.