#1. Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is an Egyptian-born ex-Muslim now living in the United States. He likes Israel. He does not like Arab terrorists. He has just written a few paragraphs mimicking and mocking anti-Israel academics who provide their solemn analyses, and justifications, of Hamas’ war against the Jews. His piece first appeared at […]
MESA Nostra Contest
In 2005, a lot happened in the Middle East. The Israelis withdrew entirely from Gaza, pulling out 8,500 settlers, and handing over to the Palestinians the greenhouses in which those settlers had grown flowers and fruit for export to Europe, in the hope that the new owners would take over the turnkey operation and […]
Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi blames Bill Maher for Christchurch mosque massacres
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 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 […]