Norway: Muslims as metaphors, part 2
Aljazeera / Hamid Dabashi
04-Aug-2011 (one comment)

[In the first part of this article, I discussed the blaming of Muslims for terror attacks, and the neo-conservative conflation of Muslims and the Left.]

What we are witnessing in this transfusion of the Left and the Muslim is only one critical element in the constitution of the Muslim as a menacing metaphor. The systemic machination behind the demonisation of Muslims as a menace to humanity is not limited to a Neoconservative and Zionist operation. When it comes to Muslims as epitome of evil, the list in fact swings all the way from the Right to the Left. The anxiety of identifying the Muslim with the Left is the anxiety of the enemy within. But when we catch the Left itself using the Muslim as a metaphor of banality and terror then we are onto something far deeper in the inner anxiety of the thing that calls itself "the West".

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Right on, Hamid!!!!

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"Yes indeed, the constitution of "Muslim" as a
metaphor of mendacity and menace to civility and society is predicated
on older tropes. But today it is the handiwork of North American,
Western European, and Isareli journalism (three specific
sites for three specific reasons), and as such it is now exposed for
the hideous lesion that it is on the body politics of a constitutionally
flawed narrative that has perpetrated unfathomable terror on
generations of Muslim children and their parents around the globe -
frightening them out of their wits that there is something
constitutionally wrong with who and what they are.

The world is
no longer at the mercy of this corrupt cacophony of power and wealth.
They have analysed and terrorised us enough. It is time to get even,
expose and theorise them back...."