Hamid Dabashi writes: “How different are Bill Maher’s racist screeds from what a mass murderer wrote in his ‘manifesto'[?]…Someone explain to HBO executives the difference between that hate speech and this by the mass murderer in New Zealand…” Dabashi’s assumption here is that if someone is violent in support of an idea, that idea is […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Five)
But Muslims killing Muslims is not any less evident on the global scene. Saudi Arabia and its sidekick, the United Arab Emirates, have led a coalition of Muslim states to slaughter tens of thousands of Yemenis and drive millions more to starvation. Yes, the US and Europe are chiefly responsible for arming these Arab countries, […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Four)
Let’s move to the other side of the globe: The historic xenophobia of the racist white supremacists in the US, the chief supporter of the Israeli settler colony, resulted in two major and many more US-led invasions of Muslim states in which hundreds of thousands of Muslims were slaughtered. When Americans freely and openly elected […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Three)
Then we go to India. The roots of Hindu violent mobs attacking Muslims in India is of course as old as British incitement of communal violence to sustain their own rule. The list of systematic Muslim massacres[sic for “massacres of Muslims”] is gruesome: From 1964 in Kolkata and 1983 in Nellie to 1987 in Hashimpura […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part Two)
Dabashi again: The fate of Muslims in their own homeland is not particularly rosier. From one end of the Muslim world to the next, Muslims – in Iran, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia in particular – live under tyrannical regimes, ruthless dictators, murderous military juntas, with their most basic civil liberties and human rights denied. […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part One)
Hamid Dabashi, the tireless apologist for Islam and slavish admirer of the late Edward Said, about whom he wrote an unforgettable “Ode to Edward Said,” has recently delivered himself of some remarks about the vast and sinister campaign being waged throughout the world against innocent Muslims. In Dabashi’s vivid and hysterical imagination, it’s a truly […]