Nathan Lean, contributor to The New Republic and erstwhile Aslan Media Editor, has chimed in on the Bill Maher/Islam conversation. He argues were missing the broader point of lumping countless nations and peoples together as The Muslim world. What do you think? Phrases like “Islamic world” or “Muslim world” impose a religious border that sustains narratives of Islam’s separation and foreignness. This nurtures absurd memes like “creeping Sharia,” “Eurabia,” and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s favorite—that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government—which suggest that Muslims have traversed their boundaries “over there” in pursuit of spreading their religious traditions “here.” It is precisely what allows someone like Maher to fret that Muslims in America “bring that desert stuff to our world.”
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:00:00 +0000
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