it matters little that both Shishani and Nawaz were not who they claimed to be. What matters is that whoever was speaking was saying the right things, the things we’ve invested in hearing, and that our local terrorism expert was on hand in either case to confirm their narrative. When people who are actually in a position to discuss our questions provide the answers we don’t like to hear, like my colleague and myself did on Insight, we create the person who will fulfil that role, a la Shishani and Nawaz, on 3AW and Insight. The hard truth is that this is not about ISIS. ISIS is simply the footnote around which we weave our very own story. They are a passive actor in our story about them. This is about us; about the coming together of a cluster of our interests and the maintenance — at all costs — of a deliberate blindness upon which these privileges rely. This is not a denial of the violence that ISIS commits. The point rather is to show how we’ve sown these facts together to tell a story that is as typical as it is convenient. Excellent article by Mohamad Tabbaa!
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 03:02:57 +0000
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