#orientalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #orientalism, aggregated by home.social.
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The bigot eventually blocked me after I told him the torment of the grave awaits him. It's an Instagram comment section; I ain't gonna write a long-ass essay, and I'm not there to convince any bigot that I mean no harm. I ain't gonna lie. I absolutely mean harm. Not worldly harm, just the afterlife. A girl can wish, pray, and curse, babes. I've been told I exercise my free will really well.
But I wrote my complete argument on whether Islam is compatible with Western civilisation in this article https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-western-civilisation/
If you can comprehend what you read, please do. Read it, share it, use it for reference when you want to argue with bigots, what have you.
If you want to read this just to argue with me, be my guest; bring your fathers and your fathers' fathers, too. I can't promise I will be civil.
#politics #islamophobia #islam #history #writer #Indonesia #genocide #colonialism #orientalism #palestine #activism #bigotry #press
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The bigot eventually blocked me after I told him the torment of the grave awaits him. It's an Instagram comment section; I ain't gonna write a long-ass essay, and I'm not there to convince any bigot that I mean no harm. I ain't gonna lie. I absolutely mean harm. Not worldly harm, just the afterlife. A girl can wish, pray, and curse, babes. I've been told I exercise my free will really well.
But I wrote my complete argument on whether Islam is compatible with Western civilisation in this article https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-western-civilisation/
If you can comprehend what you read, please do. Read it, share it, use it for reference when you want to argue with bigots, what have you.
If you want to read this just to argue with me, be my guest; bring your fathers and your fathers' fathers, too. I can't promise I will be civil.
#politics #islamophobia #islam #history #writer #Indonesia #genocide #colonialism #orientalism #palestine #activism #bigotry #press
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Is Islam Compatible with Western Civilisation?
When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-western-civilisation/
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Is Islam Compatible with Western Civilisation?
When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-western-civilisation/
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Musical Interlude: Listened to some Orientalist vintage music today; some of it will make you cringe (full of "ah, so" or "So solly") but this bouncy country tune is pretty inoffensive; in fact, kind of charming.
"Shanghaied," performed by Webb Pierce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX8Uls7X9vk
#MusicalInterlude #WebbPierce #CountryMusic #Orientalism #Music
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Musical Interlude: Listened to some Orientalist vintage music today; some of it will make you cringe (full of "ah, so" or "So solly") but this bouncy country tune is pretty inoffensive; in fact, kind of charming.
"Shanghaied," performed by Webb Pierce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX8Uls7X9vk
#MusicalInterlude #WebbPierce #CountryMusic #Orientalism #Music
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Western media apply cultural essentialism to Asian societies while exempting themselves from similar scrutiny, shaping global perceptions and policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/09/japan/media-view-asia-orientalist-lens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #edwardsaid #orientalism #sanaetakaichi #sanseitoparty #us #donaldtrump #ice #india #southeastasia #americafirst #fukushimano1 #media
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Western media apply cultural essentialism to Asian societies while exempting themselves from similar scrutiny, shaping global perceptions and policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/09/japan/media-view-asia-orientalist-lens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #edwardsaid #orientalism #sanaetakaichi #sanseitoparty #us #donaldtrump #ice #india #southeastasia #americafirst #fukushimano1 #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFxbzu5sNlQ
I just watched this video, & found it to be an extremely profound & heartfelt analysis of the prejudice against middle easterners, with heartbreaking personal anecdotes of the abuses the writer himself suffered at the hands of racists.
One of the greatest insights not explicit in the video, that became evident to me only after watching the video, was the fact that reverse hierarchical discrimination, whilst typically minor in isolation due to targeting those with the most means to defend themselves, often intersects with other forms of oppression. The video contains an example of what amounts to misandry being supercharged from a minor annoyance to a life-threatening event due to the intersection of misandry with islamophobia. The use of reverse hierarchical discrimination is often a cover for oppressing those at the lower end of another hierarchy. Think TERFs attacking trans women by associating them with men, in addition to the anecdote from the video.
In between the masterfully expressed & highly personal descriptions of prejudice against middle easterners, the writer himself expresses severe prejudice against children. He berates lack of nuance on the discussion of these topics as childish, itself doing the same thing to children that racist westerners did to him, namely assuming a sort of backwardness applies to the whole of a group because unequal opportunities caused it in a subsection of a group. Thus, adults here are berated for being like "children" for expressing what are quite evidently behaviors which are not essentially childish, much like how he was thought by racists not to respect consent by westerners who evidently did not themselves respect consent. Lack of respect for consent is not essentially middle eastern! Lack of nuance is not essentially childish! Identity is based on use, not essence, & these uses are based on prejudice as often, or perhaps more often, as they are based on self-identification.
Overall, in spite of the abrasive & hypocritical tone(which is mostly reserved to the first, more impersonal half), I would strongly recommend yall to check out this video. The anecdotes especially are extremely useful. #orientalism #racism #islamophobia #politics
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Eye Candy: Pierre Guillemet portrait. For links to large image & more info, see my Lines and Colors post: https://linesandcolors.com/2026/07/30/eye-candy-for-today-pierre-guillemet-portrait/ Highly detailed study of the fabric. #painting #oilpainting #portraitpainting #orientalist #frenchpainting #orientalistpainting #orientalism
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Musical Interlude: Here's a bit of fun. News about the Middle East had me remembering this song, which a friend played for me and said, "If Quentin Tarantino were to ever make a caper film set during the Gulf War, he should use this tune," and I can almost see it.
"Rockin' in Baghdad," performed by Jerry Reed.
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Musical Interlude: Here's a bit of fun. News about the Middle East had me remembering this song, which a friend played for me and said, "If Quentin Tarantino were to ever make a caper film set during the Gulf War, he should use this tune," and I can almost see it.
"Rockin' in Baghdad," performed by Jerry Reed.
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YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
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YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
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“Although this was his first visit, Conan Doyle already knew something of Egypt. The country had been a popular theme in the European imagination, a place of mystery and glamour that had inspired various European works of art in the nineteenth century, from Shelley’s sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ to Verdi’s opera Aida.”
—Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt
https://euppublishingblog.com/2026/07/21/arthur-conan-doyle-in-egypt/
#Scottish #literature #ConanDoyle #19thcentury #Victorian #Egypt #imperialism #orientalism
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“Although this was his first visit, Conan Doyle already knew something of Egypt. The country had been a popular theme in the European imagination, a place of mystery and glamour that had inspired various European works of art in the nineteenth century, from Shelley’s sonnet ‘Ozymandias’ to Verdi’s opera Aida.”
—Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt
https://euppublishingblog.com/2026/07/21/arthur-conan-doyle-in-egypt/
#Scottish #literature #ConanDoyle #19thcentury #Victorian #Egypt #imperialism #orientalism
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Conan Doyle’s Orient
2 Oct, Institute of English Studies, London: freeArthur Conan Doyle never visited Asia, but he had numerous dealings with the Orient in fact & in imagination, as an author of fiction (including the Sherlock Holmes stories), a traveller, an imperialist, a war correspondent, an amateur Egyptologist, & an investigator of the occult.
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/conan-doyles-orient
#Scottish #literature #Orient #orientalism #19thcentury #Victorian #ConanDoyle #SirArthurConanDoyle
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Conan Doyle’s Orient
2 Oct, Institute of English Studies, London: freeArthur Conan Doyle never visited Asia, but he had numerous dealings with the Orient in fact & in imagination, as an author of fiction (including the Sherlock Holmes stories), a traveller, an imperialist, a war correspondent, an amateur Egyptologist, & an investigator of the occult.
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/conan-doyles-orient
#Scottish #literature #Orient #orientalism #19thcentury #Victorian #ConanDoyle #SirArthurConanDoyle
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"Arabised," "Arabisation," "Islamised," and "Islamisation" are terms I will curse you and your entire lineage for. I don't care if those are the terms imperially educated academics use; that's precisely why I will curse you and your entire lineage for pushing your imperial wording into society.
Those terms operate on assumptions of external imposition, of native replacement, of ethnic cleansing, of forced assimilation, treating local ethnic groups as passive objects, passive recipients. Those terms are the European/Western empire projecting its own crimes against humanity onto the region, assuming there was never a native group of people in that region exercising their own agency to adopt the language as their lingua franca and/or practice the religion.
Nobody calls the 1,300+ ethnic groups in Indonesia "Indonesianised." The Republic of Indonesia still records 700+ spoken native languages, yet we can all communicate with each other just fine because we all speak Bahasa Indonesia. I know you're not that stupid to be oblivious to the term "lingua franca." The Indonesian nation-state still records six official religions, despite Muslims being the majority in the country; Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world, and Indonesia has more Christians than the entire Australian continent.
Yet, for some reason, you want ethnic groups native to the SWANA region and the rest of the African continent to think they have been forced to assimilate and convert like Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia, while conveniently forgetting Judaism and Christianity weren't first revealed in Europe, there were already Christians and Jews all over the SWANA and the rest of Africa's regions before refugees from Anatolia and Europe came, and the biggest Muslim population on earth isn't in the African continent or West Asia, and it was never part of the Arab conquest.
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"Arabised," "Arabisation," "Islamised," and "Islamisation" are terms I will curse you and your entire lineage for. I don't care if those are the terms imperially educated academics use; that's precisely why I will curse you and your entire lineage for pushing your imperial wording into society.
Those terms operate on assumptions of external imposition, of native replacement, of ethnic cleansing, of forced assimilation, treating local ethnic groups as passive objects, passive recipients. Those terms are the European/Western empire projecting its own crimes against humanity onto the region, assuming there was never a native group of people in that region exercising their own agency to adopt the language as their lingua franca and/or practice the religion.
Nobody calls the 1,300+ ethnic groups in Indonesia "Indonesianised." The Republic of Indonesia still records 700+ spoken native languages, yet we can all communicate with each other just fine because we all speak Bahasa Indonesia. I know you're not that stupid to be oblivious to the term "lingua franca." The Indonesian nation-state still records six official religions, despite Muslims being the majority in the country; Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world, and Indonesia has more Christians than the entire Australian continent.
Yet, for some reason, you want ethnic groups native to the SWANA region and the rest of the African continent to think they have been forced to assimilate and convert like Indigenous peoples in North America and Australia, while conveniently forgetting Judaism and Christianity weren't first revealed in Europe, there were already Christians and Jews all over the SWANA and the rest of Africa's regions before refugees from Anatolia and Europe came, and the biggest Muslim population on earth isn't in the African continent or West Asia, and it was never part of the Arab conquest.
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📰 Shangri-La and History in 1930s England (A free, 13-page article from 2007)
Tags: #Orientalism #BritishBuddhism #LitCrit
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/shangri-la-and-history-in-1930s-england_normand-lawrence -
📰 Shangri-La and History in 1930s England (A free, 13-page article from 2007)
Tags: #Orientalism #BritishBuddhism #LitCrit
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/shangri-la-and-history-in-1930s-england_normand-lawrence -
Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's *China Illustrata* (1667) by Athanasius Kircher, from China Illustrata
.Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0b92de90-0624-4114-b81a-c113fde74383
#buddha #crosses #orientalism #buddhism #allegory #shields #art #publicdomain
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The Portrait Art of Rudolf Swoboda and His Depictions of India and the Middle East
📰 Original title: Rudolf Swoboda: Master of Orientalist Portraiture
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3583b487-f426-4d25-b504-dad4ea2ded17
#rococo #botanical #orientalism #floral #china #flowers #berries #design #chinoiserie #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3583b487-f426-4d25-b504-dad4ea2ded17
#rococo #botanical #orientalism #floral #china #flowers #berries #design #chinoiserie #art #publicdomain
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CW: NSFW, GenAI
“One Way Street”
#magic #witch #bigboobs #bigbreasts #boobs #breasts #caption #cleavage #spellcaster #spellcasting #spell #magicspell #magicaltransformation #magictransformation #tgtransformation #pelviccurtain #satindress #feminization #feminizationcaption #gendertransformation #genderchange #transgender #feminizationtransformation #oriental #orientalfantasy #orientalism #barefoot #barefeet #barefootgirl #barefeetgirl
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On the irony of Ashkenazi Jews using "looking European" as a rhetorical weapon against Palestinians [apropos of #Wix's "unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans,"] meet Esther Schreiber, non-archaeologist with inflated CV and an elaborate cloth headscarf resembling a tea towel (a "tichel")... This one was appointed by Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu to lead the Israel Antiquities Authority. Eliyahu also advanced a bill to create a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" for occupied West Bank, replacing military archaeology officer, with land expropriation powers in Areas A+B+C. Eliyahu said it's "an interim stage until full sovereignty."
https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116574144415352355
#Palestine #Nakba #archeology #Israel #Apartheid #Orientalism
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On the irony of Ashkenazi Jews using "looking European" as a rhetorical weapon against Palestinians [apropos of #Wix's "unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans,"] meet Esther Schreiber, non-archaeologist with inflated CV and an elaborate cloth headscarf resembling a tea towel (a "tichel")... This one was appointed by Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu to lead the Israel Antiquities Authority. Eliyahu also advanced a bill to create a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" for occupied West Bank, replacing military archaeology officer, with land expropriation powers in Areas A+B+C. Eliyahu said it's "an interim stage until full sovereignty."
https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116574144415352355
#Palestine #Nakba #archeology #Israel #Apartheid #Orientalism
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Turkish Bazaar (Amadeo Preziosi, watercolor illustrated 1854 AD)
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Turkish Bazaar (Amadeo Preziosi, watercolor illustrated 1854 AD)
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Turkish Bazaar (Amadeo Preziosi, watercolor illustrated 1854 AD)
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Turkish Bazaar (Amadeo Preziosi, watercolor illustrated 1854 AD)
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Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4e3b5132-65d5-4d5b-97a9-6b86f7c96926
#rococo #animals #nature #botanical #orientalism #china #design #architecture #chinoiserie #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4e3b5132-65d5-4d5b-97a9-6b86f7c96926
#rococo #animals #nature #botanical #orientalism #china #design #architecture #chinoiserie #art #publicdomain
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Now I'm gonna journal my thoughts on everything I experienced today and what I learned from it like a classical scholar — except I'll write it the way Orientalists wrote about Muslims, but this time about the empire’s own inhabitants, to troll future archaeologists and historians.
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Now I'm gonna journal my thoughts on everything I experienced today and what I learned from it like a classical scholar — except I'll write it the way Orientalists wrote about Muslims, but this time about the empire’s own inhabitants, to troll future archaeologists and historians.
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"The Petitioner," Osman Hamdi Bey, 19th Century.
Osman Hamdi (1842-1910) was quite a fellow; a museum curator, art expert, archaeologist, writer, and all-around intellectual as well as being an influential painter.
Son of a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire, he studied art and art history in Paris, before returning to the Ottoman Empire and serving in various official capacities before being named the director of the Imperial Museum. There he worked to modernize archaeology and prevent the smuggling of artifacts out of the country. And all the time, kept on painting.
His work seems to copy the "orientalism" of European artists, which generates controversy today, as some view it as racist. But his work depicts Ottoman culture and tends to show his subjects (often modeled by family members) in active and intellectual roles. He's now seen as subverting Orientalism for his own purposes.
From the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul.
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"The Petitioner," Osman Hamdi Bey, 19th Century.
Osman Hamdi (1842-1910) was quite a fellow; a museum curator, art expert, archaeologist, writer, and all-around intellectual as well as being an influential painter.
Son of a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire, he studied art and art history in Paris, before returning to the Ottoman Empire and serving in various official capacities before being named the director of the Imperial Museum. There he worked to modernize archaeology and prevent the smuggling of artifacts out of the country. And all the time, kept on painting.
His work seems to copy the "orientalism" of European artists, which generates controversy today, as some view it as racist. But his work depicts Ottoman culture and tends to show his subjects (often modeled by family members) in active and intellectual roles. He's now seen as subverting Orientalism for his own purposes.
From the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul.
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Medieval Christian tropes inflaming Islamophobic Iran war debate. #AndrewSedra #Block3 #ChristianCrusades #EdwardSaid #IranWar #Islam #IslamDepictions #Islamophobia #Orientalism #TheConversation #USChristianity #World
https://iwpost.com/medieval-christian-tropes-inflaming-islamophobic-iran-war-debate/?fsp_sid=7504 -
"In the battle of propaganda, fake videos and images of female victims of Iran’s government are going viral, with even the US president sharing them. Al Jazeera’s Soraya Lennie explains how Iranian women, real or fake, are often used to sell foreign intervention."
And you guessed it, the company behind this AI slop is israeli.
#israel #propaganda #feminism #Iran #fakenews #trump #us #usa #uspol #uk #ukpol #eu #eupol #orientalism #aislop #AI
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"In the battle of propaganda, fake videos and images of female victims of Iran’s government are going viral, with even the US president sharing them. Al Jazeera’s Soraya Lennie explains how Iranian women, real or fake, are often used to sell foreign intervention."
And you guessed it, the company behind this AI slop is israeli.
#israel #propaganda #feminism #Iran #fakenews #trump #us #usa #uspol #uk #ukpol #eu #eupol #orientalism #aislop #AI
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I've never thought of myself as some kind of intellectual. But wow… my intelligence has never felt so insulted before. Subhanallah. I think I have let people get away with that a lot. The next time people project their own limitations and shortcomings onto me, clearly my civility and structured arguments at that point are serving their comfort. So I'll engage at the level they understand the moment they pull a DARVO on me by taking my critique of their frameworks and worldviews, which are influenced by the systems surrounding them, as a personal attack on their person.
"Who the fuck do you think you're speaking to, and tell me what exactly makes you think your argument and political stance are so fucking unique and easily misunderstood? Again, who the fuck do you think you're speaking to?" shall be my default response if they take my critique of their frameworks as a personal attack.
I wasn't made to forgive Western imperialism and excuse moral relativism and structural anti-intellectualism wrapped in social justice language and respectability politics. Y'all can choke.
You're free to remain in your ignorance and political incoherence while acting victimised by my very global south take, continuing your cosplay as anti-capitalists or anti-imperialists, and assimilating. In other words, live your life as usual, comrades.
#antiimperialism #decolonial #politicalanalysis #antifa #anticapitalism #anarchism #muslimvoices #orientalism #activism #solidaritynotcharity #mutualaid #antizionism #GlobalSouth #politics #advocacy #discourse #writer
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"IS ISLAM COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY?"
This kind of question is almost never neutral. It’s usually a projection question wrapped in polite language. It carries several assumptions without naming them directly. https://wrzky.com/modernity/#islam #orientalism #deconstruction #writer #disabledwriters #activism #politics #press
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"IS ISLAM COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY?"
This kind of question is almost never neutral. It’s usually a projection question wrapped in polite language. It carries several assumptions without naming them directly. https://wrzky.com/modernity/#islam #orientalism #deconstruction #disabledwriters #activism #politics #press
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"Stop patronising hijabi Muslim women by telling them to consider how other Muslim women may find hijab oppressive, as if we have not already done so.
We know how religion is weaponised in places where Muslims are the majority. We also know how your governments weaponise anti-Muslim rhetoric globally, and we understand where Islam stands in the global order.
Who are you trying to fool here?
Treating Muslim subjects as if we are insulated from that order and reminding us that “contradictions exist” is a projection of the privilege enjoyed by those who benefit from that system."
https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
#hijab #orientalism #muslim #liberalism #press #islamophobia #edwardsaid #activism #authoritarianism #marxism #liberalfeminism #Islam #Iran #afghanistan #indonesia #palestine
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"Stop patronising hijabi Muslim women by telling them to consider how other Muslim women may find hijab oppressive, as if we have not already done so.
We know how religion is weaponised in places where Muslims are the majority. We also know how your governments weaponise anti-Muslim rhetoric globally, and we understand where Islam stands in the global order.
Who are you trying to fool here?
Treating Muslim subjects as if we are insulated from that order and reminding us that “contradictions exist” is a projection of the privilege enjoyed by those who benefit from that system."
https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
#hijab #orientalism #muslim #liberalism #press #islamophobia #edwardsaid #activism #authoritarianism #marxism #liberalfeminism #Islam #Iran #afghanistan #indonesia #palestine
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"Muslims are not neutral subjects in the global order, and Islam is already positioned as suspect within it. The conversation about hijab does not happen in a vacuum. Take authoritarianism in Iran, for example.
Instead of seeing authoritarianism as inherently gendered and violent, as an inevitable feature of patriarchy, as a system that justifies itself by co-opting any moral framework, you view it as either “uniquely Islam”, an “Abrahamic religions issue”, or “proof that all religions are oppressive.” Why don’t you name a secular, non-authoritarian, non-misogynistic nation-state, then?"
#authoritarianism #Iran #Islam #Muslim #Orientalism #edwardsaid #hijab #press #anarchism #activism #politics #critique #muslimah #muslimwomen #Indonesian #palestine #imperialism #communism #marxism
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In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?
#PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature
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Statements such as this reveal a lot about the cultural biases of their authors: „The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close.“ While the first statement is obviously true with regards to the internal tensions of the emirate, the second pertinently isn’t! The geographic distance between Dubai and Gaza is only one hundred kilometres shorter than the distance between Gaza and Rome! Speaking Arabic doesn’t move any two points on the planet’s surface closer to each other.