[Peace-discuss] [Peace] proposal for anti-Islamophobia event at today's AWARE meeting, 5pm at McKinley Foundation

[C. G. Estabrook]

Sounds like a good idea, but some effort should be made to expose the 
duplicitous game the administration is playing in this regard. The most 
reactionary Islamic state in the world, Saudi Arabia, is of course a Principal 
client of the US government. So the administration doesn't want to embrace a war 
against Islam explicitly, however much it does implicitly.

That means it seems to me that any critique of Islamophobia would necessarily 
include an analysis of Obama's MENA policy and its propaganda cover.

For example, Christopher Hitchens' response to Chomsky's account of the murder 
of OBL passed without such an analysis to challenge it, and we should try to 
counter such things.

I'm suggesting that talking about Islamophobia is necessary but not sufficient 
to challenge Obama's wars.  --CGE


[PS - I'm unable to attend tonight's meeting, but /AWARE on the Air/ will record 
at the usual time & place on Tuesday - but under the new format: videos and 
visuals will be featured, and I'm soliciting suggestions. Would it be worthwhile 
to run "Reel Bad Arabs," followed by a brief discussion of this campaign?]



On 5/22/11 10:05 AM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> Let's talk about islamophobia -- this afternoon at 5.
>
> The local International Socialist Org. [ISO] proposes that
> they, AWARE, and CIMIC (the Mosque) put together some sort of
> anti-islamophobia public event.
>
> At today's AWARE meeting [5pm Sun 5/22 at McKinley Foundation,
> at 5th&  Daniel], Karen Aram of the local ISO will join us
> to talk about this.  We'll probably form an AWARE working group.
>
> If you're interested in being involved but can't come this afternoon,
> please write back (to peace-discuss, not to peace, please)
> and we'll include you in the working group.
>
>     Stuart
>
> P.S.  McKinley's doors will probably be locked -- signs at each door
> will have a number to call, or come knock at the southeast-corner window
> with the orange bag hanging out.
>
> P.P.S.  One thing that we could use as part of such an event: the film,
> "Reel Bad Arabs" (50 mins), from Media Education Foundation, which
>     "explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from
>     Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister
>     sheikhs and gun-wielding 'terrorists'--along the way
>     offering devastating insights into the origin of these
>     stereotypic images, their development at key points
>     in US history, and why they matter so much today"
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