Brief history of Uncle Tom and all hijabs
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Muslim Wakeup! guide to writing a neo-con article about Muslims.
It is a simple three-part process. Any dimwitted chicken hawk can do this. Many have.
- Start with something obnoxious, real or imagined, that some Muslim may have done.
- Take extra care to blur the line between the offender and the remaining one billion Muslims.
- No matter what the obnoxious act is, always make the dramatic assertion that this shows that the culprit, but really all Muslims, are real or closet terrorists, Nazis, or communists, and about to declare war on all of us.
We sent Amir Taheri to write one such article for us in the NY Post. Actually he did this entirely on his own, but the results were just as sad and depressing. This time wearing the hijab is the ultimate crime against humanity, and Muslims are terrorists, communists and Nazis all at the same time.
But why stop there? Just to test the depth of his readers’ stupidity, Amir lays down the most mind-bendingly stupid neo-con theory of all time. Hijab was invented by some dude in Lebanon in the early 1970’s. The only thing missing is the exact date and time.
There is no way we can top this one. We have been out smarted again.
The best that we can do at MWU! is to report that the neo-con Uncle Tom was invented last Friday in the back of a halal meat shop in Houston, Texas. Saleem Ubdul-Salam, an immigrant from Somalia, mixed left over chicken gizzards and goat scalps. “The whole world will go up in a giant ball of fire now, inshallah. I am getting a lot of support from the Southern Christian Zionists,” he explained mysteriously.
Trends in women’s clothing are evolving all the time. Taheri may have had something interesting or intelligent to contribute had he argued that a specific trend in women’s clothing can be traced to Lebanon in the 70’s. Perhaps it was a very specific way of wearing a particular type of Chador among certain Shia women. But then how would that help him slur all Muslims? He must demonize with broad strokes all hijab and some unspecified “neo-hijab” if he wants to stick to the three-part formula.
This three card monty of hate speech above is not just for neo-cons. We also have to constantly guard against it in our own thinking. We are happy to mock all things cruel and stupid that are done in the name of Islam, but it becomes easy to contribute to the tidal wave of anti-Muslim bigotry that is constantly coming at us.
Khaled Abou El Fadl, for example, has been writing about how Muslim organizations have failed to sufficiently condemn the terror and terrorists of 9-11. He does not name the specific organizations, nor does he give any specific examples of how certain condemnations are more adequate than others. This lack of distinction leaves all Muslims and their organizations wearing the dreaded proto-Nazi neo-hijab. This type of rhetoric is not without consequences in this lunatic with-us-or-against-us world.
Links
- Professor Abou El Fadl is a respected member of the Progressive Muslim community, and we are often promoting his books. His LA Times article caused a flap already, but this point seemed worth mentioning. Professor Fadl's response to the flap.
- Amir Taheri is handled and promoted by Benador Associates. Check out their list of Middle East experts. Need we say more?
- Sister Muhajjabah keeps a glossary of hijab trends. Many of them predate the 1970's. Here is another interesting article about the evolution of the Burqa.
- Sister Muhajjabah also maintains a list of Muslims and Muslim organizations that have condemned the events of 9-11. Others do too.