critique of Western lifestyles and what we have to think of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
May cause a revolution / a coup immediately to something good or better?
yes Grundssätzlich - but generally only in the long run:
The major revolutions of the last 200 years (the French and the October Revolution) had to wade through 2 generations through rivers of blood before they arrived about where we wanted to go originally.
And in Iran ...
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And in Iran ...\u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;div style = "display: none; text-align: right;" id = "post_188954" class = "gen"> \u0026lt;188 954 TextArea) = "" style = "width: 100%" class = "post" wrap = "virtual" cols = "35" rows = "15" ; id = "posttext_188954> [quote =" Lotte "] Hm I agree with Romeo's fear: [quote] your faith in all honor, but I rather expect the worst. The Muslim Brotherhood will win the first free elections and then build slowly but surely into a theocracy. [/ Quote] would be so much a desirable regime change [/ quote] What is your privacy as "desirable"? Apart from the fact that Mubarak for 30 years and it is on the verge of establishing a hereditary monarchy, I do not at all what a change will do good. Egypt is a powder keg and it is not to blame Mubarak. And he has long managed to keep the powder damp - not to the detriment of the Egyptians or any other decent people. Most of those who in the torture chambers of the country get in this area expectable and usual special treatment would just leave us so well bestowed. The 29th August 1966 was a good day for humanity. This man - [url = http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb] Sayyid Qutb [/ url] - a dance of 1950 (!!!!) the pastor of a small church in the Midwestern United States as a moral high point constituted neglect, was hanged on this day - a good 20 years after his first arrest and that even 20 years too late. [Quote] "The primal scene of modern Islamic Dekadenzkritik plays in a church in the Midwest, specifically in Greeley, Colorado. An Egyptian official named Sayyid Qutb was the Education Ministry in late 1948 to the local State College was sent to study the American educational system. In his letters and articles he described the American small town society. A famous today in the Islamic world episode relates to a dance in one of the many churches in Greeley. After the evening service, so Qutb rotates, the pastor of the lights down in the parsonage and submit a recording of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in order to lure the last of a wallflower at the dance hall: "The dance hall was shaking to the sounds of the gramophone and was full seductively devouring legs, "wrote Qutb. "Arms included hips, lips met lips, chest pressed close to chest, and the atmosphere was full of passion." "[/ Quote] from [b] [align = center] [size = 18] [url = http:/ / www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html] Eurozine - the Muslims and the decadent West - Jörg Lau [/ url] [/ size] [/ align] [/ b] The man had - like so many Islahmer - a problem with women and the problem he has set out to hundreds of pages of prison. And that - combined with a decent amount of anti-Semitism, and Christenhaß Hardcoremohammedanismus - Is the wood from which these Muslim brothers are carved. Would not most of the Egyptian population (where: where are the demos actually at the women) are on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood, now would be the good moment for a decent massacre. It would not be the first time that the Nile turns deep red. [Quote = "Lotte"] I doubt that it will eventually go in the right direction. [/ Quote] It is almost impossible. Of the major revolutions of the last 200 years (the French and the October Revolution) had 2 generations of wading through rivers of blood before they arrived about where you originally wanted to go. And in Iran ...\u0026lt;/ textarea> \u0026lt;textarea style="display: none;" cols="1" rows="1" id="orig_posttext_188954"> [quote = "Lotte" ;] Hm, I agree with Romeo's fear: [quote] your faith in all honor, but I rather expect the worst. The Muslim Brotherhood will win the first free elections and then build slowly but surely into a theocracy. [/ Quote] would be so much a desirable regime change [/ quote] What is your privacy as "desirable"? Apart from the fact that Mubarak for 30 years and it is on the verge of establishing a hereditary monarchy, I do not at all what a change will do good. Egypt is a powder keg and it is not to blame Mubarak. And he has long managed to keep the powder damp - not to the detriment of the Egyptians or any other decent people. Most of those who in the torture chambers of the country get in this area expectable and usual special treatment would just leave us so well bestowed. The 29th August 1966 was a good day for humanity. This man - [url = http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb] Sayyid Qutb [/ url] - one Dance event in 1950 (!!!!) the pastor of a small church in the Midwest represented the climax of moral decay, was hanged on this day - a good 20 years after his first arrest, and thus also 20 years too late. [Quote] "The primal scene of modern Islamic Dekadenzkritik plays in a church in the Midwest, specifically in Greeley, Colorado. An Egyptian official named Sayyid Qutb was the Education Ministry in late 1948 to the local State College was sent to study the American educational system. In his letters and articles he described the American small town society. A famous today in the Islamic world episode concerns a fun dance in one of the many churches in Greeley. After the evening service, so Qutb rotates, the pastor of the lights down in the parsonage and submit a recording of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in order to lure the last of a wallflower at the dance hall: "The dance hall was shaking to the sounds of the gramophone and was full of seductively devouring legs, "wrote Qutb. "Arms included hips, lips met lips, chest pressed close to chest, and the atmosphere was full of passion." "[/ Quote] from [b] [align = center] [size = 18] [url = http:/ / www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html] Eurozine - the Muslims and the decadent West - Jörg Lau [/ url] [/ size] [/ align] [/ b] The man had - like so many Islahmer - a problem with women and the problem he set out to hundreds of pages of prison. And that - combined with a decent amount of anti-Semitism, and Christenhaß Hardcoremohammedanismus - the wood from which these Muslim brothers are carved. Would not most of the Egyptian population (where: where are the demos actually at the women) are on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood, now would be the good moment for a decent massacre. It would not be the first time that the Nile turns deep red. [Quote = "Lotte"] I doubt that it will eventually go in the right direction. [/ quote] It is almost impossible. Of the major revolutions of the last 200 years (the French and the October Revolution) had 2 generations of wading through rivers of blood before they arrived about where we wanted to go originally. And input in Iran ...\u0026lt;/ textarea> \u0026lt;input class="liteoption" false;="" value=" + "type="button"> \u0026lt; class = "lite option", false, = "" value = " - "Type =" button "> \u0026lt;input type =" lite option "value =" Save "-1) return = false; = "" type = "button"> \u0026lt;input class="liteoption" value="Abbrechen" false;="" type="button"> & nbsp , \u0026lt;a class = "gen" href = "http://islam-deutschland.info/forum/posting.php?mode=editpost&, p = 188 954" link index = "16"> For the complete editor to change \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ div> Wed \u0026lt;span a id="postmessage_188954"> \u0026lt;span class="postbody"> Is regime change in Egypt desirable? \u0026lt;/ Span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ p> No \u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;span id="postmessage_188954"> \u0026lt;span class="postbody"> What is your there is "desirable"?
The 29th August 1966 was a good day for humanity. This man - \u0026lt;a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb" linkindex="17"> Sayyid Qutb \u0026lt;/ a> - a dance of 1950 (!!!!) the pastor of a small church in the Midwest represented the climax of moral decay, was hanged on this day - a good 20 years after his first arrest and that even 20 years too late. \u0026lt;/ Span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ p> And the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its offshoots in Gaza - Hamas - goes back to Sayyid Qutb: \u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;span id="postmessage_188954"> \u0026lt;span class="postbody"> The man had - like so many Islahmer - a problem with women and the problem he has set out to hundreds of pages of prison.
And that - combined with a decent amount of anti-Semitism, and Christenhaß Hardcoremohammedanismus - the wood from which these Muslim brothers are carved.
And that - combined with a decent amount of anti-Semitism, and Christenhaß Hardcoremohammedanismus - the wood from which these Muslim brothers are carved.
Would not most of the Egyptian population (where: where are the demos actually at the women?) are on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood, now would be the good moment for a decent massacre. It would not be the first time that the Nile deep red color \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ p> purpose. \u0026lt;/ P> \u0026lt;span id = "postmessage_188954> \u0026lt;span class="postbody"> \u0026lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"> \u0026lt;div style="text-align: , p \u0026lt; style = "font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"> \u0026lt;a class = "post link" target = "_blank" href = "http://www.eurozine.com/articles / article_2007-11-23-lau-en.html "link index =" 18 "smartclick_start =" true "> Eurozine - the Muslims and the decadent West - Jörg Lau \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ div> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ span> \u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;div plays id="body"> \u0026lt;p class="article"> The primal scene of modern Islamic Dekadenzkritik in a church in the Midwest, specifically in Greeley, Colorado. An Egyptian official named Sayyid Qutb was the Education Ministry in late 1948 to the local State College was sent to study the American educational system. In his letters and articles he described the American small town society. A famous today in the Islamic world episode relates to a dance in one of the many churches in Greeley. After the evening service, then turns Qutb, the pastor shut the lights in the parish hall and places on a recording of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to lure the last of a wallflower at the dance hall: "The dance hall was shaking to the sounds of the gramophone and was full of seductively devouring legs," wrote Qutb. "Arms included hips, lips met lips, chest pressed close to chest, and the atmosphere was full of passion."
\u0026lt;/ p> \u0026lt;div id="infobox"> \u0026lt;h1> , Cultural Diversity \u0026lt;/ h1>
While decades of migration have meant that multiculturalism has long been a de facto element of western European society, multiculturalism as social policy has been heavily challenged. Read articles on the debate here. \u0026lt;a href="http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/culturaldiv.html" linkindex="19"> [more] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ div> Greeley with his trimmed appears in front yards while Qutb as "so beautiful that one might think that one is in paradise". But the metaphysical Mittelwestler are homeless: "It's important for these people to gardening, they operate as a merchant his shop in order holds, and a factory owner his factory. It puts no sense of beauty or artistic taste behind this activity. It is the machinery of the organization and ordering, deprived of all spirituality and all the aesthetic pleasures "Another time he writes." Smile is everywhere and everywhere there are 'fun', and at every corner hugs and kisses . But never seen real satisfaction on the faces "
In a tone that does not remind of about the same time resulting observations of another unhappy intellectuals -. Adorno's Minima Moralia \u0026lt;i> \u0026lt;/ i> -, Characterized as impoverished America Qutb also uninhibited and joyless, materially rich and emotionally, and mentally disturbed flat, democratic, and yet conformist. Qutb, who was executed by Nasser in 1966, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the last century. After his return he became the chief ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood. His work \u0026lt;i> Milestones \u0026lt;/ i> was the manifesto of Islamism, in which the fight against the West and its influence in the Islamic world is summoned. To date, it must read every young jihadist intellectual claim. And since Qutb's image of the West was shaped largely in Colorado, it is not just a quip speak of Al Qaeda's roots in Greeley. Qutb was a temporary visitor who stayed only six months and never again set foot on Western soil. The image of the decadent West's popularity today among those who have long been no more guests, and yet remain strangers.
Earlier this year, the results of a first comprehensive survey \u0026lt;i> Living Apart Together \u0026lt;/ i> became known among British Muslims. \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;A class = "footnote" href = "http:// www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html # footNoteNUM1 "name =" footNote1 " link index = "20"> [1] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> They show a deep ambivalence toward the West, made great by moralizing cultural criticism air. The young Muslims feel to live in a decadent country that has forgotten its own values, calling its liberties too high a price fall and whose manners rapidly. Mind you, not the older people complain here, as usual, the decadence of the society in the light of an intact ancient times. These are the boys who curse the present.
Is this something new in the history of migration: the dream instead of the parents of advancement and recognition implement, apply the second and third generation of moral indignation of the majority, and cultivated feelings of superiority. Rather than take the battle for recognition with the established majority, they deprive the majority of their society, the recognition in the character's religious identities. How should the European societies deal with the fact that a significant - and growing - part of the immigrants and their descendants, they reject them as decadent and the salvation it looks to isolate herself from them? This is the British company hits the mark and leads to resentment against Europe over Muslim immigrants.
It is almost impossible to convey that the Muslim residents at the beginning of modernity was a positive figure occupied. At the beginning of the European cultural criticism, the self-relativization stood by the Muslim. \u0026lt;i> Montesquieu Persian Letters \u0026lt;/ i> establish a pattern of Western self-criticism. In the fictitious letters of all the Persian envoy is brought to light mercilessly, which is in the blind spot of the locals. The scourge of our Muslim obscurantism, the superficiality of our fashions, our immorality and false pomp of our institutions. The stranger is no longer here the Barbarian, the backwardness of our self-flattering size. It is a challenge to our reason. Montesquieu developed a rational-dialogical Vision of universal reason: his Persian study in Paris to look at the thinking and practices of their homeland with fresh eyes and to doubt the traditional. The Montesquieu's letters give rise to the rationality of the mutual relativization of East and West. Relativism, irony and self-alienation in the eyes of the others are from then on the foundations of Western Enlightenment.
But how should we read the Persian Letters, which present the modern sociologists us in the form of opinion polls among European Muslims? 86 percent of British Muslims between 16 and 24 say that religion is for them "the most important in life." 36 percent think apostasy should be with death will be punished. 37 percent want to send their children rather than in a purely Islamic in a mixed school. 37 percent would rather live under Sharia law than the common law. 74 per cent Definition field, that women wear the headscarf. 13 percent "admire organizations like Al Qaeda that are prepared to fight against the West." For British Muslims, religion has an increasing importance - and for the young generation, even more than the first two generations of immigrants. Young Muslims feel less in common with non-Muslims than their parents. They prefer a greater extent than the older separate Islamic schools and sharia law.
The new religiosity of the young is not necessarily a return to the traditional lifestyle of their parents. The religion of the boys is highly politicized. It has become a medium of identity politics. Where the elderly tried to assimilation, the boys deliberately accentuate their differences in public by strict Islamic dress. If one in three British Muslim in the survey, the law pertaining to the Shariah and it expresses, apostasy punishable by death, then that is a dramatic finding - especially for a country like Great Britain, which emphasizes traditional casual with questions of national identity bypasses. They were accustomed to the attractiveness the "Britishness" simply assumed. But now we see in front of a growing population that is turning away from both the lifestyle of their parents and from the mainstream and its norms.
The affirmation of Islamic identity - as the young people they know - is a religious garb coming act of dissidence. The emotional core of the new Islamic identity politics, as documented in the surveys is cultural critique of the decadent Western society. They claimed in the language of cultural relativism, the "right to cultural difference." Is this right only fought, without prejudice to the moral Absolutism of a superior culture, whose essence is to recover from the west. That the corrupt and corrupt West has no values for which it pays to enter, is the lowest common denominator of the statements collected by the British researchers to young Muslims.
There are signs that a representative study in Germany (why it is missing so far?) Would come to similar conclusions. The recent survey of a group of women wearing headscarves on behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung points in that direction. The women showed, similar to British Muslims, with a detachment toward Germany. Few have ever contact with non-Muslims. The higher the educational level, the lower the bond to Germany, the stronger the belief that superior to Islam from Christianity and "the people of different faith before God is not" are. For the women wearing headscarves is their Islamic identity - the better educated, more so - a feature of their moral superiority over the non-Islamic environment. The higher the graduation, the more often support the women into a theocracy.
\u0026lt;i> this point of the investigation, the headscarf - unveiling of a symbol \u0026lt;/ i> has been played down deliberately. It does not fit into the picture you wanted to see the commentators like. The women wearing headscarves are represented as victims of a prejudiced society. The women write, the authors felt right "by the German company rejected and discriminated against". For this reason, because they understandably little interest in German citizenship. The German company had to adjust to the fact that this includes the headscarf women and enable them to "equal participation". With a "pure anti-attitude" nothing to be won. \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;A class = "footnote" href = "# http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM2" name = "Footnote2" link index = "21"> [2] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> In the media presented the study as a warning to leave the tiresome headscarf issue finally to rest in the sake of peace.
We see here an example of the refusal of parts of the Western public to accept no for an answer. The retreat in the parallel society is appended at the end of the receiving society. It is explained by a social discrimination that simply no other Choice. If the headscarf women turn away from the German company, the logic, this can only mean that they were forced to do so. That they consciously decide against integration and for "cultural difference" is simply not. The politically correct paternalism of the headscarf study is symptomatic of the integration debate: an act of self-exclusion is reinterpreted in a debt at the end of the majority society.
victimological The way of dealing with the Muslim criticism of the West is fatal, because it deprives the opposite end. It is basically narcissistic: It refers to the integration problem always failures the majority and refuses to Islamic culture criticism of the West and their desire to take difference seriously. The fierce debate over the headscarf ban has created a false choice: Those who oppose the ban, must explain the headscarf for safe, who is holding the scarf for a problematic signal must be for a ban. But you can very well be the basis of liberal principles against the headscarf ban, without at the same time to ignore the anti-liberal attitude or play down to the neo-Islamic identity politics is based.
The headscarf is only one element - albeit a particularly important - the symbol of Islamist politics. It develops a comprehensive Pop Culture with Islamic, Islamic mufti and Tele-fashionable jilbab (coat dress with pants), niqab (face veil), "Burkinis" (full-body swimsuit with built-head covering). On relevant websites requests for exemption from sex education classes and school trips are available for download. Islamic transactions are correct to recognize by Halal certificates. Internet fatwas offer from online-Sheikh in the Diaspora orientation. In short, in all areas of life, the cultural difference will be redrawn. Internally, the group heard from the law very quickly, the obligation to rise up in the smallest everyday issues into the scholars put their expertise available, such as the Muslim had to distance themselves from the unbelieving majority.
On the popular site Islam Online about the offer of famous sheikhs of the Arab world and the Diaspora to Fatwa-chat for all occasions. Can a Muslim to send his people into April, in order to make a joke? No. Imitation of the West. - Can a student contact a Christian girl by e-mail in order to convert them to Islam? No. Could lead to illicit contacts. - Can I eat bacon as a Muslim man who was prepared only from halal ingredients? No. Could make on real bacon taste. - Can Muslims from their loved ones for Valentine's Day Giving Gifts? No. Imitation of the West. - Can I use a lipstick that contains alcohol? Twice, no. - Can a Muslim as a taxi driver drop his passengers at a bar or a casino? Only if he loses the job otherwise. - Can a Muslim celebrate the Mother's Day? No. Imitation of the West.
A real Fatwaindustrie dedicated to the Islamization of modernity to the smallest detail and absurd. Most intimate things thoroughly declined. All of life can be divided neatly into permitted and forbidden. There is always an episode from the Life of the Prophet, can be derived from a solution. It leaves no questions, any ambivalence is disposed of completely. Who is the rigid rule of the sheikhs subjects will be rewarded with the good sense to separate itself clearly from the corrupt world of the infidels.
who sends his daughter to the school trip to the sex education or co-ed swimming lessons, so a stand against the moral reprehensibility of such events. The headscarf can be inside a symbol of orthodoxy, to the outside, it is practiced cultural criticism the West and its lax morals. Even so it is causing so great impetus to our debates. It not only oppresses women and girls. The sexualization of any contact between the sexes by the headscarf is also anti-male. By wrapping the girls and women to sexual objects, makes the intimacy of the man is injured. The veil is placed under the male gaze uncontrollable instinct. There is undoubtedly racism and xenophobia in our societies. However, it is foolish, the anger that accompanies the symbolic dispute over the Islamic segregation practices as "Islamophobia" to dismiss. The reservations of a majority of non-Muslims against this practice can be read as a sign that the Islamic Dekadenzkritik understood and its moral presumption is dismissed.
Western intellectuals to the Muslim cultural criticism very receptive, but it is partly or wholly in line with our self-criticism. The Persian Letters scheme can become a trap. Timothy Garton Ash commented on the alienation of British Muslims in \u0026lt;i> Guardian \u0026lt;/ i> (August 10, 2006): "One possible reason is that Britain now has one of the most libertarian societies in Europe. Particularly among young people in the cities, where most Muslims live, is more alcohol consumed and herumgevögelt, there are fewer intact families and prayed less than anywhere in the world. From the testimony of British Muslims is clear that part of their reaction to is against this secular, hedonistic, anomic lifestyle. If women are reduced to sex objects, young Muslim women say, then I cover myself better. They maintain such a thing as a conservative feminism. It is a socially conservative critique of some aspects of British society, which are particularly evident in her generation [...] The idea that these young British Muslims, in fact, put his finger on some things that are wrong in our modern progressive, liberal, secular society, the idea that reasonable persons could freely choose a different, outwardly more restricted way to live - this is in our everyday progressive discourses hardly before. But if it is. "
Breathtaking, as here, the" progressive discourse ", anomie, binge drinking, liberalism, sexism and hedonism are blended into a single large context of delusion. The following 11 September often asked question - why do they hate us? - Would finally be answered: because we are hated. If yodelled under Dirndl, growing under the Veil of resistance. The veil is a bulwark against Western sexism. Timothy Garton Ash takes the tone of the liberal self-criticism, the arguments of the Islamists. The propaganda with which the Ayatollah Khomeini, the introduction of the compulsory headscarf in Iran after the revolution justified, has found its way to Oxford.
The Iranian-born author Chahdorrt Djavann experienced the archetype of the "feminist" justification of the headscarf in the post-revolutionary Iran in his own body. In her furious treatise what Allah thinks about Europe? she recalls the post-revolutionary Iran, "'Muslim Women', was heard there, can only develop thanks to the Islamic laws and emancipate protect them from the Western decadence. Muslim women find their self-respect, their dignity, their beliefs, their honor, their identity and their desire to by making themselves the Islamic values their own emancipation and to reject the model that has only led to the decadence of Western women. The woman is reduced in Western societies from advertising and pornography to a commodity ... . Our veil protects us, it confirms our Muslim identity and our Islamic faith, "The Shah is defeated, the battle for the moral regeneration continues - as in the Islamic world, today in the West.
The Pakistani-British writer Sarfraz Manzoor asked at the beginning of the year in the Guardian a reversal of the integration debate: If the country wondered "what is a culture of respect expansively counter has, then you should consider what would have to learn from Islamic values. Muslim children have a better chance to grow up in intact families than those in single-parent households that are in the UK more often. "Manzoor is a young secular intellectual who loves pop culture, which the Islamists is a symbol of Western decadence. And yet he plays into the hands of identity politics, speaking of "Muslim values" speaks. The British company, he asks, should be integrated into this sphere of values rather than vice versa. The "home-grown terrorists" of the 7th July 2005 were "So well integrated into white society, that they can assume their worst characteristics. Integration did not save them, they created them. "This is an elegant way of processing claims. Islamist terror is declared a consequence of the decadence of the West. The terror is in this perspective, a desperate form of cultural criticism.
The cultural scientist Christina von Braun explains the importance of the headscarf in the same way. In a comprehensive study, they count against the veiling of women in Islam against the unveiling of women in the West. Veils and headscarves as symbols of patriarchal oppression and an 'Islamic Fundamentalism to interpret, '"serve nothing other than the concealment of Western violence against the woman:" If we so often the oppression of women in Islam and directed against male violence is discussed, it seems that the function have to divert from the women in the West directed against potential violence. "The violence, von Braun, who believes the West is exposed to the veiled Muslim woman, is opposed by the violence of the Western voyeuristic gaze. And the violence of female circumcision, which is condemned in the West at right as a human rights violation is up against the west cosmetic surgery and self-injury, the young women (and increasingly men) cause her body. "\u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007- 11-23-lau-en.html # footNoteNUM3 "name =" footNote3 "link index =" 22 "> [3] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> The latter is of course much worse, because more subtle form of violence, for the women to fit themselves. Honest, old-fashioned repression in the East stands against the insidious poisoning of Western women with false self-images.
The East has the veil, it assesses the culture of science, the West, sex tourism, "While there is prostitution there, but countries like Iran, Libya, Algeria or the very well developed tourist Egypt are not on the Map of the Western sex tourists. The one-sided indignation at the Muslim forced marriages may also be due to the refusal of trade. "Forced marriages are so scandalized at us because of the Orient in his chastity is the western sex tourists refused? This is the projection of the most bizarre yet inveterate hatred of the male gender theory to cultural studies the debate on Islam. The scheme propaganda of the Islamists - Islamic decency against Western depravity - is accepted by the culture of science as a pattern of interpretation of the cultural conflict over the veil. The veil is for Christina von Braun will resist the voyeuristic gaze to penetrate to the west of the East and deflower his innocence. He wants to rob the East its otherness, because capitalism, everything must move into the recovery system: the women from head to tear the hijab is a symbol of colonial conquest.
This is a paraphrase Frantz Fanon, the ideologists of the anti-colonial liberation force. Fanon wrote that the veil dropped open " the colonialists been closed horizons and shows them piece by piece, the Algerian bared flesh. " This in turn increases the aggressiveness of the occupier with any exposed face. " Each discarded veil, Fanon, "expresses a negative way, that Algeria is starting to deny themselves, and that it has accepted the rape by the colonizer." A remarkably misogynistic argument: A woman comes to light lends itself to the rape. The post-colonial thinkers Fanon put it, the Islamists take over. Originally, the terms of this argument, the French besetzte Algerien. Heute wird es von Predigern auch im Westen benutzt.
Der australische Großmufti Tadsch Al-Din al-Hillali sprach im letzten Herbst während des Ramadan über die Pflicht der Frau zur Bedeckung: "Unbedecktes Fleisch" ziehe die Katzen an, sagte der Mufti. Wird es "ohne Bedeckung draußen auf die Straße gelegt oder in den Garten oder in den Park, dann kommen die Katzen und essen es. Ist das nun die Schuld der Katzen oder des unbedeckten Fleisches?" Die Empörung war weltweit groß, daß ein einflußreicher Prediger Frauen ohne Kopftuch damit de facto zur Vergewaltigung freigab.
Die Gendertheoretikerin von Braun sieht sich natürlich not an argument in line with the Mufti. And yet it is in when they transfigured with Fanon the veil for anti-colonial resistance symbol and the defense against the sexism. The intellectual self-hatred to a jump in both cases, outright: Fanon, the Western Enlightenment tradition, which he owed his own education, for Haßobjekt. He sat with colonialism. Decolonization had to mean according to the forcible extinction of the European Union. This was not just metaphorical. Sartre has brought the murderous consequences of Fanonschen thinking to the narrow formula, shoot a European to mean "kill two birds with one stone to destroy an oppressor and an oppressed one. Remain a dead man and a free man, "How the Enlightenment Fanon denounced feminism Christina von Braun, he operates the cause of the white man, the enforcement of the western lifestyle, and therefore cultural colonialism" is most problematic, "she said in a recent interview, "that such a certain western feminism sits down and says. You just have to become like us, then you're happy,"
Under the pretext of emancipation, said von Braun, to the Oriental woman still under the law of capitalism be forced. Long before Christina von Braun Sayyid Qutb has already exposed the promise of happiness of women's emancipation as corruption offer. Qutb describes in his famous work \u0026lt;i> Social Justice in Islam \u0026lt;/ i> the advance of women in Western society as "a form of slavery and exploitation." The employment of women is ultimately the "exploitation of the sex drive of the customer." If women in the economy where the government and the media in advance, it is that the aim to use the attractiveness of women. And we know suggests to Qutb with a knowing wink the men's world, "must be what they are to achieve their success." Even "if it must be nothing - which is unlikely - we know, to devour what passions hungry and greedy eyes her body threatens \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" http:/. / # www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM4 "name =" footNote4 "link index =" 23 "> [4] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup>
The founder of modern Islamism seen with a view of the pornographers and the Western public is increasingly self-conscious active women. For this view is the office or the store, working in the male and female employees with each other, conceivable only as a kind of brothel. This is a way to reverse the occidental view of the Orientalist harem fantasies.
are increasingly After all appeals against the fatal alliance between our native culture with criticism of the Islamic Dekadenzkritik collected. It is reported recently more and more voices which thwart this game. One among them is the journalist Akbar Ganji, a former bodyguard of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who has been Years in Iran, persecuted and harassed, because he represents the moral pretensions of the Islamists in question. Which society is more moral, asks Ganji, the Islamic society, women and segregates the regulated, or the Western, which gives them freedom: "Why do girls and women before the revolution could use public transport without problems? Why do they have such problems since the revolution that not even the forced segregation on the buses, they still protects? Women do not want to be seen as sex objects, but the Islamic Republic has reduced them to it. Women are everywhere the target devouring gaze. "
The Qutbsche Image of the degenerate West, which is documented in the above-cited surveys as a majority is found recently by a number of authors in question, who themselves have a so-called migration background. The German Green MP Ekin Deligöz belongs to the last year called on the Muslims: "Lay off the headscarf! Come in today to "Likewise, the Islamic scholar Necla Kelek, in the \u0026lt;i> taz called \u0026lt;/ i>:". Muslims who learns to love the freedom of the individual "
Or Emel Algan, the daughter of the founder! the Islamist organization Milli Görüs and even a former activist. Algan sets public witness, as Islamism, together with its symbol, the headscarf, leaves behind. "The departure of the headscarf has become a matter of course," said Algan \u0026lt;i> the world \u0026lt;/ i> (April 23, 2007), "was not easy because I had developed a self-image so that linked to moral values was. It took me two years of research and experimentation before I could part with it because I am someone who does not do things by halves. My life without the headscarf is now not become any better because it was always good before, it is rather quite different . Become more exciting and versatile "
These critical Muslims in the West know the freedom to appreciate more than the locals - and even if it turns out to be a freedom for self-made disaster. In France, an initiative founded, encouraged the girls and women in the suburbs, can be treated "as a subject neither whores nor". The Syrian living in America Wafa Sultan says it is misleading to speak of a clash of cultures: "It is a struggle between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a struggle between human rights and their violation. It is a struggle between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them like human beings. "The Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy says the 11th September was "good for the Muslims" have been because they too now must face the question of why the Islamists hate us: "Whenever I hear this question put a TV presenter," says Eltahawy, "I cry, I hate they, too! "
The most hated these courageous women is originally from Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dutch, who now lives in the United States. In her autobiography, Hirsi Ali her experience with the departure of the Headscarf described. She had been brought up very strictly and had been close temporarily in Africa itself, the Muslim Brotherhood. After their arrival in Holland it is being challenged by Christian-Ethiopian friends to take off the cloth. After long hesitation, she dares one morning: "Absolutely nothing happened. The gardeners continue to cut the hedges. No one had a fit. Well, these men were Dutch, so maybe not real men. I went to Ethiopia and by men from Zaire, but no one noticed me. So I went to the Bosnians. No one looked at me. In fact, I drew less attention to me as if I had my hair covered. Not one man turned through. "\u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" # http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM5 "name =" ; footNote5 "link index =" 24 "> [5] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup>
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Dutch Initiation is an apt counterpart to Sayyid Qutb's primal scene from Greeley. A bit disappointed with the beautiful young woman in her early on, that not even play the Muslim Bosnians crazy when she shows her hair. But then she gets to appreciate it: "With my hair walking around in the wind, I felt somehow bigger. "
can walk around free, they are long gone. Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives - as many of the above - under police protection. Only when Muslims learn to view this situation as a Dekadenzsymptom their faith, things will get better.
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While decades of migration have meant that multiculturalism has long been a de facto element of western European society, multiculturalism as social policy has been heavily challenged. Read articles on the debate here. \u0026lt;a href="http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/culturaldiv.html" linkindex="19"> [more] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ div> Greeley with his trimmed appears in front yards while Qutb as "so beautiful that one might think that one is in paradise". But the metaphysical Mittelwestler are homeless: "It's important for these people to gardening, they operate as a merchant his shop in order holds, and a factory owner his factory. It puts no sense of beauty or artistic taste behind this activity. It is the machinery of the organization and ordering, deprived of all spirituality and all the aesthetic pleasures "Another time he writes." Smile is everywhere and everywhere there are 'fun', and at every corner hugs and kisses . But never seen real satisfaction on the faces "
In a tone that does not remind of about the same time resulting observations of another unhappy intellectuals -. Adorno's Minima Moralia \u0026lt;i> \u0026lt;/ i> -, Characterized as impoverished America Qutb also uninhibited and joyless, materially rich and emotionally, and mentally disturbed flat, democratic, and yet conformist. Qutb, who was executed by Nasser in 1966, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the last century. After his return he became the chief ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood. His work \u0026lt;i> Milestones \u0026lt;/ i> was the manifesto of Islamism, in which the fight against the West and its influence in the Islamic world is summoned. To date, it must read every young jihadist intellectual claim. And since Qutb's image of the West was shaped largely in Colorado, it is not just a quip speak of Al Qaeda's roots in Greeley. Qutb was a temporary visitor who stayed only six months and never again set foot on Western soil. The image of the decadent West's popularity today among those who have long been no more guests, and yet remain strangers.
Earlier this year, the results of a first comprehensive survey \u0026lt;i> Living Apart Together \u0026lt;/ i> became known among British Muslims. \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;A class = "footnote" href = "http:// www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html # footNoteNUM1 "name =" footNote1 " link index = "20"> [1] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> They show a deep ambivalence toward the West, made great by moralizing cultural criticism air. The young Muslims feel to live in a decadent country that has forgotten its own values, calling its liberties too high a price fall and whose manners rapidly. Mind you, not the older people complain here, as usual, the decadence of the society in the light of an intact ancient times. These are the boys who curse the present.
Is this something new in the history of migration: the dream instead of the parents of advancement and recognition implement, apply the second and third generation of moral indignation of the majority, and cultivated feelings of superiority. Rather than take the battle for recognition with the established majority, they deprive the majority of their society, the recognition in the character's religious identities. How should the European societies deal with the fact that a significant - and growing - part of the immigrants and their descendants, they reject them as decadent and the salvation it looks to isolate herself from them? This is the British company hits the mark and leads to resentment against Europe over Muslim immigrants.
It is almost impossible to convey that the Muslim residents at the beginning of modernity was a positive figure occupied. At the beginning of the European cultural criticism, the self-relativization stood by the Muslim. \u0026lt;i> Montesquieu Persian Letters \u0026lt;/ i> establish a pattern of Western self-criticism. In the fictitious letters of all the Persian envoy is brought to light mercilessly, which is in the blind spot of the locals. The scourge of our Muslim obscurantism, the superficiality of our fashions, our immorality and false pomp of our institutions. The stranger is no longer here the Barbarian, the backwardness of our self-flattering size. It is a challenge to our reason. Montesquieu developed a rational-dialogical Vision of universal reason: his Persian study in Paris to look at the thinking and practices of their homeland with fresh eyes and to doubt the traditional. The Montesquieu's letters give rise to the rationality of the mutual relativization of East and West. Relativism, irony and self-alienation in the eyes of the others are from then on the foundations of Western Enlightenment.
But how should we read the Persian Letters, which present the modern sociologists us in the form of opinion polls among European Muslims? 86 percent of British Muslims between 16 and 24 say that religion is for them "the most important in life." 36 percent think apostasy should be with death will be punished. 37 percent want to send their children rather than in a purely Islamic in a mixed school. 37 percent would rather live under Sharia law than the common law. 74 per cent Definition field, that women wear the headscarf. 13 percent "admire organizations like Al Qaeda that are prepared to fight against the West." For British Muslims, religion has an increasing importance - and for the young generation, even more than the first two generations of immigrants. Young Muslims feel less in common with non-Muslims than their parents. They prefer a greater extent than the older separate Islamic schools and sharia law.
The new religiosity of the young is not necessarily a return to the traditional lifestyle of their parents. The religion of the boys is highly politicized. It has become a medium of identity politics. Where the elderly tried to assimilation, the boys deliberately accentuate their differences in public by strict Islamic dress. If one in three British Muslim in the survey, the law pertaining to the Shariah and it expresses, apostasy punishable by death, then that is a dramatic finding - especially for a country like Great Britain, which emphasizes traditional casual with questions of national identity bypasses. They were accustomed to the attractiveness the "Britishness" simply assumed. But now we see in front of a growing population that is turning away from both the lifestyle of their parents and from the mainstream and its norms.
The affirmation of Islamic identity - as the young people they know - is a religious garb coming act of dissidence. The emotional core of the new Islamic identity politics, as documented in the surveys is cultural critique of the decadent Western society. They claimed in the language of cultural relativism, the "right to cultural difference." Is this right only fought, without prejudice to the moral Absolutism of a superior culture, whose essence is to recover from the west. That the corrupt and corrupt West has no values for which it pays to enter, is the lowest common denominator of the statements collected by the British researchers to young Muslims.
There are signs that a representative study in Germany (why it is missing so far?) Would come to similar conclusions. The recent survey of a group of women wearing headscarves on behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung points in that direction. The women showed, similar to British Muslims, with a detachment toward Germany. Few have ever contact with non-Muslims. The higher the educational level, the lower the bond to Germany, the stronger the belief that superior to Islam from Christianity and "the people of different faith before God is not" are. For the women wearing headscarves is their Islamic identity - the better educated, more so - a feature of their moral superiority over the non-Islamic environment. The higher the graduation, the more often support the women into a theocracy.
\u0026lt;i> this point of the investigation, the headscarf - unveiling of a symbol \u0026lt;/ i> has been played down deliberately. It does not fit into the picture you wanted to see the commentators like. The women wearing headscarves are represented as victims of a prejudiced society. The women write, the authors felt right "by the German company rejected and discriminated against". For this reason, because they understandably little interest in German citizenship. The German company had to adjust to the fact that this includes the headscarf women and enable them to "equal participation". With a "pure anti-attitude" nothing to be won. \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;A class = "footnote" href = "# http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM2" name = "Footnote2" link index = "21"> [2] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> In the media presented the study as a warning to leave the tiresome headscarf issue finally to rest in the sake of peace.
We see here an example of the refusal of parts of the Western public to accept no for an answer. The retreat in the parallel society is appended at the end of the receiving society. It is explained by a social discrimination that simply no other Choice. If the headscarf women turn away from the German company, the logic, this can only mean that they were forced to do so. That they consciously decide against integration and for "cultural difference" is simply not. The politically correct paternalism of the headscarf study is symptomatic of the integration debate: an act of self-exclusion is reinterpreted in a debt at the end of the majority society.
victimological The way of dealing with the Muslim criticism of the West is fatal, because it deprives the opposite end. It is basically narcissistic: It refers to the integration problem always failures the majority and refuses to Islamic culture criticism of the West and their desire to take difference seriously. The fierce debate over the headscarf ban has created a false choice: Those who oppose the ban, must explain the headscarf for safe, who is holding the scarf for a problematic signal must be for a ban. But you can very well be the basis of liberal principles against the headscarf ban, without at the same time to ignore the anti-liberal attitude or play down to the neo-Islamic identity politics is based.
The headscarf is only one element - albeit a particularly important - the symbol of Islamist politics. It develops a comprehensive Pop Culture with Islamic, Islamic mufti and Tele-fashionable jilbab (coat dress with pants), niqab (face veil), "Burkinis" (full-body swimsuit with built-head covering). On relevant websites requests for exemption from sex education classes and school trips are available for download. Islamic transactions are correct to recognize by Halal certificates. Internet fatwas offer from online-Sheikh in the Diaspora orientation. In short, in all areas of life, the cultural difference will be redrawn. Internally, the group heard from the law very quickly, the obligation to rise up in the smallest everyday issues into the scholars put their expertise available, such as the Muslim had to distance themselves from the unbelieving majority.
On the popular site Islam Online about the offer of famous sheikhs of the Arab world and the Diaspora to Fatwa-chat for all occasions. Can a Muslim to send his people into April, in order to make a joke? No. Imitation of the West. - Can a student contact a Christian girl by e-mail in order to convert them to Islam? No. Could lead to illicit contacts. - Can I eat bacon as a Muslim man who was prepared only from halal ingredients? No. Could make on real bacon taste. - Can Muslims from their loved ones for Valentine's Day Giving Gifts? No. Imitation of the West. - Can I use a lipstick that contains alcohol? Twice, no. - Can a Muslim as a taxi driver drop his passengers at a bar or a casino? Only if he loses the job otherwise. - Can a Muslim celebrate the Mother's Day? No. Imitation of the West.
A real Fatwaindustrie dedicated to the Islamization of modernity to the smallest detail and absurd. Most intimate things thoroughly declined. All of life can be divided neatly into permitted and forbidden. There is always an episode from the Life of the Prophet, can be derived from a solution. It leaves no questions, any ambivalence is disposed of completely. Who is the rigid rule of the sheikhs subjects will be rewarded with the good sense to separate itself clearly from the corrupt world of the infidels.
who sends his daughter to the school trip to the sex education or co-ed swimming lessons, so a stand against the moral reprehensibility of such events. The headscarf can be inside a symbol of orthodoxy, to the outside, it is practiced cultural criticism the West and its lax morals. Even so it is causing so great impetus to our debates. It not only oppresses women and girls. The sexualization of any contact between the sexes by the headscarf is also anti-male. By wrapping the girls and women to sexual objects, makes the intimacy of the man is injured. The veil is placed under the male gaze uncontrollable instinct. There is undoubtedly racism and xenophobia in our societies. However, it is foolish, the anger that accompanies the symbolic dispute over the Islamic segregation practices as "Islamophobia" to dismiss. The reservations of a majority of non-Muslims against this practice can be read as a sign that the Islamic Dekadenzkritik understood and its moral presumption is dismissed.
Western intellectuals to the Muslim cultural criticism very receptive, but it is partly or wholly in line with our self-criticism. The Persian Letters scheme can become a trap. Timothy Garton Ash commented on the alienation of British Muslims in \u0026lt;i> Guardian \u0026lt;/ i> (August 10, 2006): "One possible reason is that Britain now has one of the most libertarian societies in Europe. Particularly among young people in the cities, where most Muslims live, is more alcohol consumed and herumgevögelt, there are fewer intact families and prayed less than anywhere in the world. From the testimony of British Muslims is clear that part of their reaction to is against this secular, hedonistic, anomic lifestyle. If women are reduced to sex objects, young Muslim women say, then I cover myself better. They maintain such a thing as a conservative feminism. It is a socially conservative critique of some aspects of British society, which are particularly evident in her generation [...] The idea that these young British Muslims, in fact, put his finger on some things that are wrong in our modern progressive, liberal, secular society, the idea that reasonable persons could freely choose a different, outwardly more restricted way to live - this is in our everyday progressive discourses hardly before. But if it is. "
Breathtaking, as here, the" progressive discourse ", anomie, binge drinking, liberalism, sexism and hedonism are blended into a single large context of delusion. The following 11 September often asked question - why do they hate us? - Would finally be answered: because we are hated. If yodelled under Dirndl, growing under the Veil of resistance. The veil is a bulwark against Western sexism. Timothy Garton Ash takes the tone of the liberal self-criticism, the arguments of the Islamists. The propaganda with which the Ayatollah Khomeini, the introduction of the compulsory headscarf in Iran after the revolution justified, has found its way to Oxford.
The Iranian-born author Chahdorrt Djavann experienced the archetype of the "feminist" justification of the headscarf in the post-revolutionary Iran in his own body. In her furious treatise what Allah thinks about Europe? she recalls the post-revolutionary Iran, "'Muslim Women', was heard there, can only develop thanks to the Islamic laws and emancipate protect them from the Western decadence. Muslim women find their self-respect, their dignity, their beliefs, their honor, their identity and their desire to by making themselves the Islamic values their own emancipation and to reject the model that has only led to the decadence of Western women. The woman is reduced in Western societies from advertising and pornography to a commodity ... . Our veil protects us, it confirms our Muslim identity and our Islamic faith, "The Shah is defeated, the battle for the moral regeneration continues - as in the Islamic world, today in the West.
The Pakistani-British writer Sarfraz Manzoor asked at the beginning of the year in the Guardian a reversal of the integration debate: If the country wondered "what is a culture of respect expansively counter has, then you should consider what would have to learn from Islamic values. Muslim children have a better chance to grow up in intact families than those in single-parent households that are in the UK more often. "Manzoor is a young secular intellectual who loves pop culture, which the Islamists is a symbol of Western decadence. And yet he plays into the hands of identity politics, speaking of "Muslim values" speaks. The British company, he asks, should be integrated into this sphere of values rather than vice versa. The "home-grown terrorists" of the 7th July 2005 were "So well integrated into white society, that they can assume their worst characteristics. Integration did not save them, they created them. "This is an elegant way of processing claims. Islamist terror is declared a consequence of the decadence of the West. The terror is in this perspective, a desperate form of cultural criticism.
The cultural scientist Christina von Braun explains the importance of the headscarf in the same way. In a comprehensive study, they count against the veiling of women in Islam against the unveiling of women in the West. Veils and headscarves as symbols of patriarchal oppression and an 'Islamic Fundamentalism to interpret, '"serve nothing other than the concealment of Western violence against the woman:" If we so often the oppression of women in Islam and directed against male violence is discussed, it seems that the function have to divert from the women in the West directed against potential violence. "The violence, von Braun, who believes the West is exposed to the veiled Muslim woman, is opposed by the violence of the Western voyeuristic gaze. And the violence of female circumcision, which is condemned in the West at right as a human rights violation is up against the west cosmetic surgery and self-injury, the young women (and increasingly men) cause her body. "\u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007- 11-23-lau-en.html # footNoteNUM3 "name =" footNote3 "link index =" 22 "> [3] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup> The latter is of course much worse, because more subtle form of violence, for the women to fit themselves. Honest, old-fashioned repression in the East stands against the insidious poisoning of Western women with false self-images.
The East has the veil, it assesses the culture of science, the West, sex tourism, "While there is prostitution there, but countries like Iran, Libya, Algeria or the very well developed tourist Egypt are not on the Map of the Western sex tourists. The one-sided indignation at the Muslim forced marriages may also be due to the refusal of trade. "Forced marriages are so scandalized at us because of the Orient in his chastity is the western sex tourists refused? This is the projection of the most bizarre yet inveterate hatred of the male gender theory to cultural studies the debate on Islam. The scheme propaganda of the Islamists - Islamic decency against Western depravity - is accepted by the culture of science as a pattern of interpretation of the cultural conflict over the veil. The veil is for Christina von Braun will resist the voyeuristic gaze to penetrate to the west of the East and deflower his innocence. He wants to rob the East its otherness, because capitalism, everything must move into the recovery system: the women from head to tear the hijab is a symbol of colonial conquest.
This is a paraphrase Frantz Fanon, the ideologists of the anti-colonial liberation force. Fanon wrote that the veil dropped open " the colonialists been closed horizons and shows them piece by piece, the Algerian bared flesh. " This in turn increases the aggressiveness of the occupier with any exposed face. " Each discarded veil, Fanon, "expresses a negative way, that Algeria is starting to deny themselves, and that it has accepted the rape by the colonizer." A remarkably misogynistic argument: A woman comes to light lends itself to the rape. The post-colonial thinkers Fanon put it, the Islamists take over. Originally, the terms of this argument, the French besetzte Algerien. Heute wird es von Predigern auch im Westen benutzt.
Der australische Großmufti Tadsch Al-Din al-Hillali sprach im letzten Herbst während des Ramadan über die Pflicht der Frau zur Bedeckung: "Unbedecktes Fleisch" ziehe die Katzen an, sagte der Mufti. Wird es "ohne Bedeckung draußen auf die Straße gelegt oder in den Garten oder in den Park, dann kommen die Katzen und essen es. Ist das nun die Schuld der Katzen oder des unbedeckten Fleisches?" Die Empörung war weltweit groß, daß ein einflußreicher Prediger Frauen ohne Kopftuch damit de facto zur Vergewaltigung freigab.
Die Gendertheoretikerin von Braun sieht sich natürlich not an argument in line with the Mufti. And yet it is in when they transfigured with Fanon the veil for anti-colonial resistance symbol and the defense against the sexism. The intellectual self-hatred to a jump in both cases, outright: Fanon, the Western Enlightenment tradition, which he owed his own education, for Haßobjekt. He sat with colonialism. Decolonization had to mean according to the forcible extinction of the European Union. This was not just metaphorical. Sartre has brought the murderous consequences of Fanonschen thinking to the narrow formula, shoot a European to mean "kill two birds with one stone to destroy an oppressor and an oppressed one. Remain a dead man and a free man, "How the Enlightenment Fanon denounced feminism Christina von Braun, he operates the cause of the white man, the enforcement of the western lifestyle, and therefore cultural colonialism" is most problematic, "she said in a recent interview, "that such a certain western feminism sits down and says. You just have to become like us, then you're happy,"
Under the pretext of emancipation, said von Braun, to the Oriental woman still under the law of capitalism be forced. Long before Christina von Braun Sayyid Qutb has already exposed the promise of happiness of women's emancipation as corruption offer. Qutb describes in his famous work \u0026lt;i> Social Justice in Islam \u0026lt;/ i> the advance of women in Western society as "a form of slavery and exploitation." The employment of women is ultimately the "exploitation of the sex drive of the customer." If women in the economy where the government and the media in advance, it is that the aim to use the attractiveness of women. And we know suggests to Qutb with a knowing wink the men's world, "must be what they are to achieve their success." Even "if it must be nothing - which is unlikely - we know, to devour what passions hungry and greedy eyes her body threatens \u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" http:/. / # www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM4 "name =" footNote4 "link index =" 23 "> [4] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup>
The founder of modern Islamism seen with a view of the pornographers and the Western public is increasingly self-conscious active women. For this view is the office or the store, working in the male and female employees with each other, conceivable only as a kind of brothel. This is a way to reverse the occidental view of the Orientalist harem fantasies.
are increasingly After all appeals against the fatal alliance between our native culture with criticism of the Islamic Dekadenzkritik collected. It is reported recently more and more voices which thwart this game. One among them is the journalist Akbar Ganji, a former bodyguard of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who has been Years in Iran, persecuted and harassed, because he represents the moral pretensions of the Islamists in question. Which society is more moral, asks Ganji, the Islamic society, women and segregates the regulated, or the Western, which gives them freedom: "Why do girls and women before the revolution could use public transport without problems? Why do they have such problems since the revolution that not even the forced segregation on the buses, they still protects? Women do not want to be seen as sex objects, but the Islamic Republic has reduced them to it. Women are everywhere the target devouring gaze. "
The Qutbsche Image of the degenerate West, which is documented in the above-cited surveys as a majority is found recently by a number of authors in question, who themselves have a so-called migration background. The German Green MP Ekin Deligöz belongs to the last year called on the Muslims: "Lay off the headscarf! Come in today to "Likewise, the Islamic scholar Necla Kelek, in the \u0026lt;i> taz called \u0026lt;/ i>:". Muslims who learns to love the freedom of the individual "
Or Emel Algan, the daughter of the founder! the Islamist organization Milli Görüs and even a former activist. Algan sets public witness, as Islamism, together with its symbol, the headscarf, leaves behind. "The departure of the headscarf has become a matter of course," said Algan \u0026lt;i> the world \u0026lt;/ i> (April 23, 2007), "was not easy because I had developed a self-image so that linked to moral values was. It took me two years of research and experimentation before I could part with it because I am someone who does not do things by halves. My life without the headscarf is now not become any better because it was always good before, it is rather quite different . Become more exciting and versatile "
These critical Muslims in the West know the freedom to appreciate more than the locals - and even if it turns out to be a freedom for self-made disaster. In France, an initiative founded, encouraged the girls and women in the suburbs, can be treated "as a subject neither whores nor". The Syrian living in America Wafa Sultan says it is misleading to speak of a clash of cultures: "It is a struggle between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a struggle between human rights and their violation. It is a struggle between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them like human beings. "The Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy says the 11th September was "good for the Muslims" have been because they too now must face the question of why the Islamists hate us: "Whenever I hear this question put a TV presenter," says Eltahawy, "I cry, I hate they, too! "
The most hated these courageous women is originally from Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dutch, who now lives in the United States. In her autobiography, Hirsi Ali her experience with the departure of the Headscarf described. She had been brought up very strictly and had been close temporarily in Africa itself, the Muslim Brotherhood. After their arrival in Holland it is being challenged by Christian-Ethiopian friends to take off the cloth. After long hesitation, she dares one morning: "Absolutely nothing happened. The gardeners continue to cut the hedges. No one had a fit. Well, these men were Dutch, so maybe not real men. I went to Ethiopia and by men from Zaire, but no one noticed me. So I went to the Bosnians. No one looked at me. In fact, I drew less attention to me as if I had my hair covered. Not one man turned through. "\u0026lt;sup> \u0026lt;a class =" footnote "href =" # http://www.eurozine.com/articles/article_2007-11-23-lau-de.html footNoteNUM5 "name =" ; footNote5 "link index =" 24 "> [5] \u0026lt;/ a> \u0026lt;/ sup>
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Dutch Initiation is an apt counterpart to Sayyid Qutb's primal scene from Greeley. A bit disappointed with the beautiful young woman in her early on, that not even play the Muslim Bosnians crazy when she shows her hair. But then she gets to appreciate it: "With my hair walking around in the wind, I felt somehow bigger. "
can walk around free, they are long gone. Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives - as many of the above - under police protection. Only when Muslims learn to view this situation as a Dekadenzsymptom their faith, things will get better.
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| Every few months, Israel publicly in the international media and at universities around the world put in the pillory and the country down a real or perceived violation of human rights to the load. Last summer it was about the Israeli commando raid against a Turkish ship that tried to break through the blockade of the Gaza Strip, which nine people lost their lives. In a few months it will go to something else, perhaps to the Israeli action against the Islamic terrorist state in Gaza or the army against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and its ever-growing mountain of missiles. Perhaps an Israeli strike against the Iranian and Syrian nuclear program, perhaps to the revelation of an Israeli covert operation in Europe, perhaps to an incident at a roadblock in the West Bank. Maybe it will go to the visit of the Temple Mount by Israeli politicians or the purchase of a building in East Jerusalem by some Jews. But whatever may be the ostensible reason, and regardless of whether Israel's political leaders and soldiers do their work properly, we can be sure that the impact of this future event be a further abuse campaign in the media and the universities and from the political executive level is - a campaign of defamation, which no other nation in the world is exposed as regularly. We know that our nation will one day no longer treated as a democracy that fulfills its duty to defend its citizens and their freedom, but as a kind of plague. We will again have to witness how all the things we value and expensive, and what we think needs doing and we will be trampled. We will feel the shame that former friends turn away from us and Jewish students to quickly distance itself from Israel, to preserve the goodwill of outraged students. And we in turn will feel the brunt of rising anti-Semitic tide that has now returned the following after the Second World War low tide. As for the reactions of the Jews and the friends of Israel in this defamation campaigns, these have been during the last thirty years, ultimately, not changed: My friends from the political left still seem to believe that a change in Israeli policy, these abusive campaigns or eliminating it could at least reduce their influence. My friends from the political right seem to still say that we are above all a "better Public relations' needs.Israel's policies over the past forty years, very uneven, sometimes it was better, sometimes worse. And the skill with which Israel took its interests in the media and through diplomatic channels, was also sometimes greater, sometimes less. But delegitimize the international effort to defame Israel, and from the international community, and notices, went on and, despite the many changes in Israeli politics and public relations and more intense and effective. can do nothing to show this more clearly than the Jewish withdrawal from Gaza and the subsequent Gründung einer unabhängigen und kriegerischen islamischen Republik – etwa sechzig Kilometer vom Zentrum Tel Avivs entfernt. Die Israelis und die Freunde Israels können mit guten Gründen geteilter Meinung sein in der Frage, ob dieser Rückzug aus Gaza im Jahre 2005 oder der entsprechende Rückzug aus der Sicherheitszone im Südlibanon im Jahre 2000 wirklich in Israels Interesse war und ob der jüdische Staat dadurch gewonnen hat. In einem können wir jedoch alle einer Meinung sein, dass nämlich diese Rückzüge die sich über Israel ergießende Flut von Hass und Verunglimpfung in keiner Weise zurückgedrängt haben. Was auch immer dem Trend zur Delegitimierung Israels zugrunde liegt, dieser Trend function largely independently of any particular Israeli policy in this or that question.To put it another way: not the continuation of the security zone in southern Lebanon and Israeli control of the Gaza Strip or a commando raid against a blockade-breaking ship threaten Israel's position in the world. They are our enemies only manifestations of something deeper, which they always come back to the fore when they consider the Israeli state and its actions. And as long as we do not understand what this deeper problem is with Israel, we will be unable to understand the swell of hatred for us - and unable, however, we to defend.Most of this growing hostility worried people with whom I've talked to are convinced that Israel's reputation in Europe and elsewhere could be improved considerably if only certain facts would be known better. But that does not exist. Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions shownthat you do not normally someone who can persuade with facts, if he sees the world through a different paradigm - that of a rival conceptual frame of reference for his perception of the world. As for Israel's reputation in the eyes of many Europeans, is exactly the case. The political thinking Europe has experienced in recent decades, a paradigm shift, and the rest of the world follows, at least in part, such replacement. start with the old paradigm, which Israel originally owed its legitimacy. The modern state of Israel was both constitutional as well as to what the international community as a Na tionalstaat founded as the state of the Jewish people. He is, in other words, the result of an early modern development, which took the view that the freedom of nations was based on a right to defend itself against the depredations of international empires that occurred in the name of a higher authority. (1) And even if there has been for thousands of nation-states - the Jewish Kingdom of the Bible was the most classic example - focus for the story of the modern national state to the rise of England and the Netherlands and subsequently Richelieu's France, whose self-image as sovereign nations during the long struggle to liberate their peoples from the data collected since the mid-16th century demands of Austria-English Hapsburg on a universal empire cleared and strengthened. The victory of Elizabeth I in 1588 about the English Armada was for this reason a turning point in history of humanity, because it was consolidated with the rejection of the right to rule over England at the same time, the freedom of peoples to the Austria-English legal right, as the only protector of ruling the universal Catholic faith on humanity. The defeat of the universalist ideal of the Thirty Years War led to the enforcement of a new paradigm of European politics, in which a revitalized concept of the nation-state the basis for the freedom of nations offered anywhere in Europe. In the late 19th century, this idea of national freedom so widespread that it not only in Europe as a guiding principle was, but all over the world. For the sovereign nation-state that had the right to defend its government, its laws, its religion and language against the tyranny of imperial claims, entered advanced thinkers and politicians such as John Stuart Mill and Woodrow Wilson and saw it as the cornerstone of what eventually should be a new political order for humanity. Theodor Herzl's Zionist organization, which sought a sovereign state for the Jewish people in line, this has become common political model - and indeed the idea of a Jewish state was indeed achieved under British auspices. In 1947, the United Nations voted by a two thirds majority for the creation of an NES "Jewish state" in Palestine. And on the birth of Israel followed the establishment of dozens of other independent states throughout the Third World. But in the time since the founding of Israel strengthened the idea of the nation state is not about, but has been largely abandoned. With the European Union, the European nations seek to push through a new paradigm in which the sovereign nation state is no longer the basis for the good of mankind. On the contrary, the independent nation-state is now by many European intellectuals and politicians regarded as the source of all evil, during the multinational empire - the one form of government that had shown to John Stuart Mill the essence of despotism - is now repeatedly cited approvingly as a model of post-national human race. (2) This new paradigm also brings in other nations before attacking in the majority political discourse - even in the United States and Israel. why this happens? How is it that so many French, German, British, Dutch and others are now willing to help with the abolition of the states where they live, and against the rule to exchange of an international regime? To answer these questions we need to take a quick look at the origin of modern post-national paradigm in European thinking. This alternative view of European politics began in 1795 with the programmatic document Perpetual Peace. A Philosophical Sketch. It was Immanuel Kant from a direct attack on the ideal of the nation-state by comparing the national self-determination with the lawless liberty of the savage: "Just as we now the attachment of savages to their lawless freedom, prefer to wrestle incessantly, as if a statutory to constituent by themselves, to submit to compulsion. . . See with profound contempt, and regarded as crudity, coarseness and brutal Abwürdigung of humanity, so, you might think, would have civilized peoples divided (each united to become a State), from such a depraved state, the sooner the better to escape: but instead Rather, each is Statehis majesty. . . exactly, to be subject to legal constraints no looks, and the splendor of his head is that it. . . many thousands at its disposal, for one thing, it's none, "to be sacrificed. For Kant, the willingness to entirely to waive the right to act on the basis of his political independence, the flag for reason in politics. This applies to the individual, if it is the lawful order of the political state subjects. And it applies to the nations that give equally any right of independent action and to join a "national state" must "to states in proportion to each other, there can be according to reason is no other way out of the lawless state which contains nothing but war; come out, than to give up just like their wild individuals (lawless) freedom to public coercive laws comfortable and so an (admittedly always growing) ethnic state (civitas gentium) that would last address all peoples of the earth form. " In Perpetual PeaceKant therefore takes the view that the establishment of a universal state, »last all peoples of the earth would include" the only possible topping-out speech of reason. People who do not agree with the submission of their national interests to the decisions of such a universal state are considered enemies of the historical progress of mankind to reason. The supporters of the nation state are considered supporters of a violent egoism at the international level, which amounts to a waiver of moral as well as the insistence on a violent selfishness in our personal lives. Lange took the Kantian paradigm, which accused the institution of the national state of inherent immorality, few supporters in Europe. In the 19th century, it was only a tiny number of Utopians and a handful of Catholic reactionaries own. This changed however in the 20th century. The Soviets and the Marxists put the blame for the carnage of two world wars of the institution of the nation state to the load. This argument convinced few in the European mainstream between the wars. After the Second World War, however, when Nazism was on the list of the nation state to the alleged crimes, this caused a different result. Nazism was seen as the rotten fruit of the German national state, and Kant, has always seemed rather to have had: For now it was considered a "coarseness" and "bestial Abwürdigung of humanity", if nations are armed and myself decided when to this wanted to use weapons. I think that argument is absurd. At the heart of the idea of the nation state is the political self-determination of peoples. The nation state is a form of government, their political ambitions to rule einer Nation beschränkt und die Schaffung der Freiheit für diese Nation. Der Nazistaat aber war das genaue Gegenteil davon: Hitler lehnte die Idee des Nationalstaates als einen Ausdruck westlicher Dekadenz ab. Seiner Ansicht nach sollte das politische Schicksal aller Nationen von dem neu entstehenden deutschen Reich entschieden werden: Hitler sah ja in seinem Dritten Reich eine verbesserte Version des von ihm so genannten Ersten Reiches, das nichts anderes war als das Heilige Römische Reich. Das Ziel der Nazis war also dem der westlichen Nationalstaaten diametral entgegengesetzt. Hitlers Traum bestand eben darin, sein Reich auf deren Untergang zu gründen. Doch viele Europäer weigerten sich, das so zu sehen und accepted the view that Nazism was more or less the ugly logical consequence of the nation state. So went the Soviet condemnation of the Western nation-state along with a new anti-Western nationalism, the hoped-in the name of Kant's progression of reason impatient for an end to the old order. Jürgen Habermas, one of the leading theoreticians of post-national Europe, pointed out that the proposed changes to the Germans was very easy - given the role of Germany in the Second World War and the fact that post-war Germany is already occupied by the Allies and not a sovereign state was gone. He might have added that the German People had historically lived differently than the English, French and Dutch never under a single government rule, so that was the dream of a nation state for them in any case less important. Anyway, this post-national perspective now found everywhere in Europe trailer. 1992, the European leaders of the Maastricht Treaty, which the European Union was founded as an international government, and restricting the number of rights that accompanied the history of European nations with national independence. Of course there are many Europeans who have not yet accepted this development. And it is still unclear how it will continue in the future - whether it will succeed in the nation states of Europe to preserve parts of their sovereignty, or whether these states will exist as independent nations only in memory. In any case, the effect of the new paradigm that drives the development of the European Union, already overwhelming. Both in Europe and North America grow, we see a generation of young people who no longer looks for the first time in three hundred years in the National State, the foundation of our freedoms. This powerful new paradigm suggests we can get along very well without the nation-state. The possibility that should step down as a nation like England, which was so often in the fields of politics, philosophy and science a role model for others, one day forever from the stage of world history, fills me with concern. And the same goes for other European nations. But my real issue is the Jews and their state, and I will try to understand how Israel looks like when viewed through European eyes. Or more precisely, through the eyes of the new paradigm that so many Europeans, and now a growing number of educated people in America and elsewhere in the world serves as a framework for understanding Israel. Not Herzl Zionist Organization had managed to convince almost all Jews around the world that there was no other way but to establish a sovereign Jewish state. This could only Auschwitz and the extermination of six million by the Germans and their accomplices. From the horror and humiliation of Auschwitz this unavoidable lessons have been learned: that it was the dependence of the Jews of military protection by others that had led to it. That message was already on November 30, 1942 formulated by David Ben-Gurion in the National Assembly of the Palestinian Jews unequivocally: "We do not know exactly what is in the Nazi Death Valley is going on or how many Jews have been slaughtered. . . We do not know whether the victory of democracy and freedom and justice will not take place in a Europe that has become a huge Jewish cemetery. . . We are the only people in the world whose blood may be shed with impunity as the blood of a nation. . . Because the Jews are not recognized politically, have no Jewish army, no independence and no Jewish homeland. . . Give us the right to fight and die as Jews. . . We demand the right. . . to a homeland and independence. What happened with us in Poland, which forbid, God, happened to us in the future is, all of our innocent victims, all the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and possibly millions. . . are the victims of a people without a homeland. . . We call. . . a homeland and independence. " These words vividly show the connection between the Holocaust and what Ben-Gurion that "sin is called the Jewish powerlessness. Auschwitz means that the Jews failed in their efforts to find a means to protect their children. They were dependent on others, decent men who were in America or England in power and when the time came, took practically no effort to save the Jews of Europe. Now believe most Jews continued that the only thing that has really changed, since they killed millions of their people - the only thing bucking to be a stronghold of the repetition of this chapter of world history - Israel. (3)
The Jews are certainly not the only ones for which Auschwitz has become an important political symbol. For many Europeans Auschwitz is the focus of the Second World War given lesson. But the conclusions they draw are pulled by the Jews diametrically opposed. Following Kant see them in Auschwitz, the most radical manifestation of that brutal Abwürdigung of mankind, the means of national particularism. From this perspective, the death camps provide the final proof of the evil that must happen if we allowed the nations to decide how they want to have the military power in their possession. The obvious conclusion is that it was wrong to give the German nation that power over life and death. If you want to prevent it from ever coming back to such a crime, then the answer can only be to abolish Germany and other nation states of Europe and unite all the European nations under a single international government. You create the nation-state from a once and for all - Ecrasez l'infame! - And it has blocked this dark road to Auschwitz. , note that it is not according to this view is Israel that is the answer to Auschwitz, but the European Union: A united Europe will make it Germany or any other European nation impossible to track once more. In this sense, the European Union just a guarantee for the future undisturbed peace of the Jews and even the whole mankind. We're here the introduction of two competing paradigms: two paradigms assume that the millions of Auschwitz Germans and their collaborators were murdered, the atrocities committed there were evil altogether and that Jews and others who died there were the helpless victims of evil. But then closes with the matches. From now on, to see individuals who view the same facts through different paradigms, different things. paradigm A: Auschwitz means the unspeakable horror of Jewish women and men who have to stand there watching naked and empty-handed and, as their children die because they lack a weapon with which they could protect them. Paradigm B: Auschwitz means the unspeakable horror, the German soldiers Spreading use violence against others and be legitimized by anything other than the views of their government on their national rights and interests. It is important to see that these two theories are actually describe views that are incompatible. In this, the agency among the killers seen as a source of evil, in that the powerlessness of the victims - a difference of views, which is a yawning gap, if we apply these competing paradigms in a different direction and Israel look through their eyes. paradigm A: Israel does Jewish women and men with a gun in his hand watch over their children and all other Jewish children and protect them. Israel is the opposite of Auschwitz. Paradigm B: Israel does the unspeakable horror, the Jewish soldiers spread use violence against others and be legitimized by anything other than the views of their government on their national rights and interests. Israel is Auschwitz. wins in both paradigms, the existence of Israel is of exceptional importance. For the founders of Israel seemed to be the fact that the survivors of death camps and their children were given weapons and allowed them to be trained as soldiers under a Jewish flag, a key Schritt der Weltgeschichte auf dem Wege zu Recht und Gerechtigkeit. Zwar konnte das keineswegs wiedergutmachen, was geschehen war. Aber es war nichtsdestoweniger gerecht und rechtens, den Überlebenden eben jene Ermächtigung zu gewähren, die, wäre es einige Jahre früher dazu gekommen, ihre Angehörigen vor dem Tode bewahrt hätte. In diesem Sinne ist Israel das Gegenteil von Auschwitz. Aber Israel gewinnt auch in dem neuen europäischen Paradigma eine außerordentliche Bedeutung. Denn in Israel griffen die Überlebenden und ihre Kinder zu den Waffen und machten sich auf, ihr Schicksal selbst zu bestimmen. Das heißt, dieses Volk, das noch vor ein paar Jahrzehnten dem Kantischen Ideal complete self-denial had come so close, but instead chose the path that is now considered the path of Hitler - the path of national self-determination. Just that underlies the almost limitless disgust that so many feel towards Israel and especially to all that has to do with Israel's defense efforts, regardless of whether these military operations are blameless or morally questionable. For when they attacked in the name of their own nation-state to arms, the Jews were the view of many Europeans, taken directly from the same evil that Germany had made to build the concentration camps. This may differ in details, but the principle is the same: Israel is Auschwitz. You try to see this through European eyes: Just try to imagine a proud Dutchman to be, whose nation was the first that kindled the torch of freedom in that desperate revolt against Catholic Spain in a war of independence, the eighty years lasted. "And yet I am willing to give up," he says to himself, "this heritage with its dreams of past glory to sacrifice and to say goodbye to the land of my forefathers to a higher will, I will bring this painful sacrifice for an international political union that will eventually cover the whole of humanity. Yes, I'll do it for the sake of humanity. " But which ventured civilized nations to turn away from this blessed efforts of morality and reason back? Imagine how shocked we Dutch must be: "The Jews! Ebendie be Jews who would have the first to greet the coming of the new world order, and are now proving their enemies and build their own selfish small state - in conflict with the world. How dare they? Do they not in the name of reason and good the same sacrifices as I do? Are they so corrupt that they are their own parents in Auschwitz can remember? No, she can not remember - because they are seduced and perverted been from the same evil, which had previously been taken our German neighbors. They are gone over to the side of Auschwitz. " It is no mere coincidence that we hear constantly how Israel and its soldiers are compared to the Nazis. It is not easy to be any slander, or the arbitrary value was chosen because of their rhetoric. In Europe and everywhere spread the new paradigm is the comparison with Nazism, as disgusting and absurd as it may be, as natural and inevitable as mud after rain. And that, I believe answered the question of how it is possible to count on a basic level facts no longer appear. How is it possible that even if Israel certainly is right, the land can be put on trial in libel campaigns that burn every year of painful and difficult decisions? How is it possible that after the destruction of the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon and the retreat from Gaza, the hatred of Israel is only louder still? The answer is: true that the hatred of Israel at some point, quite honestly based on certain facts, but the international outrage against Israel and hatred of Israel are in fact not motivated by such facts. They are motivated more by the rapid spread of the new paradigm, with Israel and in particular the use of force alone in his defense are considered profoundly illegitimate. If you believe that Israel, in a sense represents a variant of Nazism, then you will be not very impressed by "improvements" of Israeli politics and public relations. An improved Auschwitz is still Auschwitz. If that is true and the comparison of Israel with the most hated political movement in European history an integral part of the new and is rapidly spreading paradigm of international politics must, it is not those who are supporters of this paradigm to come to the conclusion that Israel has no right to exist and should be abolished? My answer is: Of course, the comparison leads to this conclusion: If Germany and France have no right to exist as independent states, then why should Israel have this right? And if no one is willing to shed a tear on the date on which members of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are a thing of the past, why should anyone else in the case of Israel ? Behave On the contrary - while the Jews and their friends still fearful to speak about the "destruction of Israel," infuses this formulation the representatives of the different directions of the new paradigm, one not afraid to allow some of them already dream to be related to the policies to the Jewish state will allow the end of its existence. (4)
All this provokes the question: If the ever-increasing hostility toward Israel is motivated to a considerable extent by the fact that the idea of independent nation-state hardly support place, then why support as many of the sharpest critics of Israel, the establishment of an independent nation state for the Palestinian Arabs? Why do they refuse to criticize the use of force by other nation-states such as North Korea, Iran, Turkey and the Arab regimes and many other Third World countries? Many of these regimes are much more aggressive in business, violence as Israel - in some cases, they are committing atrocities on an unimaginable scale. If the nation-state paradigm is in disarray, then why is there apparently at least passive support of the right to independent governance, if it is perceived by those regimes is? As before, found a first answer in the works of the main architects of the new paradigm. Remember that human history is for Kant as a progressive movement from barbarism to the final triumph of morality and reason should be seen, which he equates with the establishment of a single world government. The first people to give their selfish, lawless freedom, by forming themselves into nation states, then those nation-states their selfish, lawless freedom to give up by subordinate themselves to a single universal government. Unlike Marx, for Kant, is uncertain whether these Movement of history is necessary. But he sees this as the only historical development, is legitimate for a moral and in accordance with reason can be seen located, since any other view of history compels us "our eyes. . . wipe with indignation. " This advanced view of history does not mean that all nations continue on the path from barbarism to reason with the same speed. Kant, indeed, believes that there are different levels of success on this way and that different peoples to reach at different times. As he writes in his essay Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Intention(1784) explains, let the people when they join forces to constitutional nation-state behind the barbaric and reach the stage of civilization. But civilization does not mean moral maturity, which is a completely different stage of human history. This highest level can be achieved only if there is the framework of an international government, "where everyone, even the smallest state in its security and rights of its own power, or its own legal judging, but only of this great League of Nations (Foedus Amphictyonum) , united by a power and the decision according to the laws of the united will could expect. " is Thus, a particular people at a particular time in a state of savagery, civilization or of moral maturity. The Greeks and Romans called it in Kant, bequeathed to Europe a continuous improvement of state constitutions, and Europe would "likely give way one day all other laws. But still there was no nation that the level of moral maturity was reached, and Kant prophesied that would be the civilized nations of much suffering and misery to endure, until they were ready, their "disorderly freedom to give up" and to submit to an international government . The rest of the world, which had remained uncivilized, had not even taken the first step to unite in the form of permanent national states. And they would have to do obviously, before we could make the idea of their further advancement into serious consideration. About one thinks Kant's argument carefully, you will notice that in view of our current world international situation leads to the exact position of the authorities of the new paradigm. According to this position, there is a place in the world, where nations have finally achieved the hoped for Kant, "moral perfection": the European Union. Only there for many it has become clear that the system of nation-states must be overcome. Only one is there to overcome on the way, the right to independent national action. Only the people there are morally ready - not only at the level of individuals, but also on all the nations. are from this point of view, North Korea, Iran, Turkey, the Arabs and the Third World on a much more primitive stage of historical development. They still seek to escape the savagery, nor seek to form a real nation-states under the national rule of law. Once they achieve that which can last for centuries, they also will be begin to understand how desirable it would be to their nation-states to rise and gain under an international governmental moral maturity, as do the Europeans now. This explains the enthusiasm of the representatives of the new paradigm for the creation of new nation states in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and their relative lack of interest in the aggression and atrocities committed by the not yet fully developed nation-states, which are found in these regions. In the eyes of the new paradigm is all just a necessary phase of development, they must go through: Like children, they have not grown up and know it not be better. All this naturally on Israel not to. In the eyes of the new paradigm, the Jews are regarded as a European people, and the Jews should be measured with the same moral standards as the Europeans. The Jews have thus reached the stage of civilization for a long time and should know better than anyone else, irregular that the system of nation-state, only the first stage of "freedom is" to be overcome in the name of moral maturity must. This accounts for the anger and the hatred directed against Israel and the Jews, because they insist, are all to resist: the Jews are not regarded as innocent Wilde. If they insist on a unilateral military self-defense or be supported by its own legal system, they are viewed as former Europeans who grotesquely left the road to moral maturity. They are not children who were not really responsible, because they know better. They are adults who know better and actually have chosen the way to irrationality and immorality voluntary. (5) This explains the bias to judge with which many in Europe on the one hand, Israel and also Iran, Turkey, the Arabs and the Third World. This chronic and ever-increasing double standards results directly from Kant's conception of history. Wherever the new paradigm takes root, it will be noted that the moral demands on Israel are screwed ever higher, while the expected standard of Israel's Islamic neighbors moral decline sharply and approaches the zero point. And for the simple reason that is accepted by the Iranians, Turks and Arabs, to be in their history not yet reached the stage where they could understand such a thing as morality and reason. Kant would say that one among them all "in the Great from folly, childish vanity, and often even from childish malice and destructiveness woven together place ". The course is easily overlooked because it is neither polite nor appropriate to explain that all these nations are no better than stupid and violent children and that they must not expect too much. But one scratch on the surface, and you will find that this condescension bordering on racism is everywhere. If this is true, and the vile campaigns against Israel, we are witnessing, therefore, move that Israel, although it is perceived as a "European" nation, while continuing as an independent nation-state acts - then we would have to cases initiated, where same Why a similar denigration of other nations meet. And if so, we can conclude that these campaigns are actually directed against nations that have failed supposedly the justice to be made at a European people claim for moral maturity? I know three other nations that caused varying degrees comparable moral outrage and defamation, as is the case with Israel, the United States, apartheid South Africa, Serbia. I want these countries are not comparable. The question I try to answer is whether there are other nations that the kind of smear campaign were exposed as they were directed against Israel in recent years. And this question can be yes certainly. If we want to understand the increasing efforts to delegitimize Israel, we come to the knowledge around, not that these international campaigns have significant similarities, and not a question of whether it is within the new paradigm, a common driving force for it. I start with the example of America. Much has been written about the anger and outrage that increasingly define the European view of the United States, but these explanations have not paid sufficient attention to the fact that most of the European criticism of the fact of the refusal is based, that the United States continue to act like a nation state. A careful reading of the shows in Europe against the United States, addressed criticism that the Americans are often just condemned because they see themselves as an independent nation has the right to act independently - that are not regarded as proportionate to the level of moral maturity which should have reached the United States now. have a look in the book published some years ago empires of the German political scientist Herfried Münkler. (6) Münkler is a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, member of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and understand, unlike many other political scientists, really something of the order of the nation state model. He knows as well that the main issue tackled at the international level today if the West continues to out nation-states established civilization be, or whether he will return to a world that compete in the empires together to dominate as many countries as to can tear. And Münkler expressed clearly to the fact that Nazi Germany was not a nation state: Hitler tried in the first place, "the national rule of Central and North and South Eastern Europe to dismantle and return to an imperial order. " And yet despite all this book Münkler rejects the idea that the independence of the American nation state and its right to act for the welfare and interests of its citizens in its sole discretion, to be respected. For Münkler rather the American policy in the post-Cold War concern "and" notorious, not because of the content of the measures taken by the Americans decisions, "the possible backgrounds and hidden objectives of the renewed military intervention by the United States in the oil-rich Golfregion, . . . dazu die tiefen Zerwürfnisse in den transatlantischen Beziehungen haben in Europa den Blick für die Entstehung einer neuen Weltordnung . . . geschärft. Mit der notorischen Weigerung der USA, internationalen Vereinbarungen beizutreten, vom Kyoto-Protokoll bis zum Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag, zeichnete sich eine Neudefinition der amerikanischen Position in der politischen Ordnung der Welt ab. Es kommt hinzu, dass die Beziehungen zwischen den USA und der UNO . . . grundsätzlich zur Disposition stehen, nachdem US-Präsident George W. Bush . . . damit gedroht hat, die USA würden einige der drängenden sicherheitspolitischen Probleme im Alleingang lösen«. Schlimmer Moreover Münkler suspected the Americans to unseat the United Nations "as the central Aushandlungsort and last-resort decision 'to be prepared and its military apparatus should not be considered a serving of the" world community "related:" That this was no empty threat, has the Spring 2003 with the Third Gulf War demonstrated. Two interpretations of the new relationship between the United States to the UN Security Council were possible: Either the United States he sought to exploit as america impaired legitimacy donor or they began to emancipate themselves from the notorious use as a military arm of the World: They put their equally sophisticated . How expensive military machine no longer in the service of the international community, but put him in accordance with their own interests and goals " In these and similar passages is not criticizing Münkler the content of American politics: The problem is the behavior of the Americans to the investor is that the United States to act unilaterally, at its discretion. In other words, the problem is that the United States to act as an independent nation. (It is interesting that the American Münkler "independence war" referred to a "colonial empire as a" founding myth of the United States. "The European Union has "known no such" founding myth. In contrast to America and Israel War of Independence led them not to celebrate Independence Day no.) is the crucial point of his criticism that Münkler not actually the constitutive principles of the nation-state order accepted. Like other European intellectuals, he is basically not willing to recognize that America has the right to act in the service of its own citizens, their values and interests. Since it is not surprising also that Münkler represents the end of his book argues that the model of nation-state is dying. The dramatic last sentence of the book is:. "Europe's future will therefore work without issues is not the model of an empire" Münkler makes the failure of the United States to abandon him, according to their status as a nation state and an empire, responsible for the decline of the nation-state model of order. For me it makes no sense. The main criterion for an empire - the basic principle, rule permanently to an ever-growing number of nations - must take on the United States at all. I've never met an American who would be interested to take power in Canada, even if the United States to do the easy could. I've never met an American who would be interested in the long term to control Iraq or Afghanistan. The parallel with Israel, I believe is amazing. As in the case of Israel targeted the outrage and anger in each case on a particular individual decision by the United States: the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, in the invasion of Iraq. Those special occasions come and go, and the objections are against every single action by the Americans apparently meant seriously. But they do not stand behind the growing outrage and anger. Because they are motivated by the fact that the United States in the right unilateral action, as far as is necessary to exist - that is, they insist on living in the old nation-state procedure. And here, as in the case of Israel corresponds to the consternation of systematic double standard: the Americans are reviled, and their behavior is deplored, because they decide independently and pursue the interests of their nation. Who would think in Europe only dream of criticizing China or Iran, because they decide independently and pursue their own interests? I want to mention two other examples of such moral denigration: the campaigns to delegitimize South Africa and Serbia came out. Although I have no doubt that the South African regime was morally repulsive and the Serbs after the collapse of Yugoslavia, committed crimes, but this question can not revolves around the objective moral failings of those nations - should also among respectable people are largely consistent. I submit that the hatred directed against those nations can not be explained simply by reference to the injustice committed by them. After all, who would seriously claim that the Serbs had to show a worse human rights record than North Korea, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Sudan or the Congo? Who would seriously claim that the suppression the blacks in South Africa, so it was certainly terrible, reprehensible than was the oppression of women in today's Saudi Arabia? The apartheid regime in South Africa was certainly reprehensible, and the actions of the Serbs in Kosovo was condemned in many ways. loud But I think if we want to know why these people were selected for a special hatred and loathing and for particular punishment, then the answer must be that they were seen as Europeans and measured by moral standards that bear no relation to the stood what was expected of their black African and Muslim neighbors. Consider this: Why should two million Albanians in Kosovo as a second independent Albanian state must be recognized - it is really useful to found a second Albanian state? - And 35 million Kurds continue to suffer every year from terror and persecution by the Turks and Arabs, because they do not own home? The crucial difference between the two cases is that the Serbs who see Kosovo as belonging to them, as a European people are perceived and should know better than such ", while the Turks and Arabs, the Kurds continue suppress and murder from the perspective of the new paradigm appear as childish savages, from which we can morally expect almost anything. The argument is counter-intuitive, but simple: If a nation the west in some sense, then match looking to expectations the European standards - which increasingly means Kant's standard of a complete renunciation of the national right to independent decision and action, especially with regard to the use of force. During the Iran, Turkey, the Arabs and the Third World are as primitive peoples, according to this view, which is not even the historical stage of under the rule of law consolidated nation-state has been achieved. In practice this means that most of them no moral standards should be applicable. I'm not suggesting that the disappearance of the nation-state paradigm is the only factor that is for the European hatred of Israel responsible accountability. This is obviously wrong, because what I describe as the resolution of this paradigm was not before seen in the sixties and in the West only during the eighties to a serious power. It existed long before much resistance to the establishment of a Jewish state in the Middle East, and there is no reason to the assumption that the underlying motives are gone: There are still people who believe should not exist Israel because it threatens the oil supply to the West or because the Jews are not really formed a nation and no right to a country would have - or because of a deep-seated anti-Semitism traditional kind, and of course there are people whose contempt for Israel really specific examples of Israeli policy, is contrary to them. When it comes to opposition to Israel, it is certainly not only one reason. But that does not mean that I have described specific factor - the dissolution of the nation-state paradigm - only one among many. Which is not so. Currently, he is by far the most important factor. People may shy away for fear of the oil weapon to upset the world of Islam, or they may displease the construction of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, or they may be anti-Zionists because of an inherited anti-Semitism from their parents. But those are not very dynamic factors. They are comparable to the threat, which are the conventional armies of the Arab states for Israel: The threat is still there and, under certain circumstances, a lot of damage. But it is not a rapidly growing threat, and we know more or less good as we deal with it can. The resolution of the nation-state paradigm by the European unification process is very different. There is an anticipated by anyone new power. It already exercises a profound influence on attitudes to Israel and displaced more traditional factors. It continues to gain strength and spreading, with no end in sight. And it is a power with which no one seems to work around among friends and allies of Israel know. Furthermore, this specific idea - that the nation-state is not the appropriate form of government of a civilized people - the ability when far enough is designed to destroy Israel by itself. And as long as we do not know how we should appropriately respond to it, this is my opinion, basically the only thing that matters. other hand, I would not be so sure that the traditional anti-Semitism is the issue of nation-state is not the least to do. Kant's proposal to abolish the nation states of Europe and put them under the domination of a single international government, the educational reprise of a much older Christian figure of thought - in the sense that humanity can be united under a single message of redemption. The Jewish resistance against the new Good News is somewhat similar to his opposition to the old one. It would not surprise me if it turns out that the perceived by the representatives of the new paradigm emotions in front of the Jewish rejection of the project to create the model of nation-state, those who are near relatives, who felt some of their ancestors in the face of the Jewish rejection of the Gospel . And I would not be surprised if Jews also develop in the face of this reaction, feelings that are similar to those who felt their ancestors once. And what will be the future development? Some years ago I visited a German diplomat in my Office in Jerusalem, who asked me that question, and I remember that moment I realized, this gentleman, who was without question a friend of Israel, to say nothing, what would satisfy him. Over the years I've been thinking a lot about the answer that I gave him, but I managed not to improve it significantly. The problem is that many in Europe have opted for a concept of international relations, the demands of national independence heavy sacrifices, when a nation wants to be recognized as truly legitimate member of the international community. There are victims, the difficulty in even some European nations. Realistically there is no way that Israel will bring these victims. Israel was founded with the express purpose of being an independent nation state, the state of the Jewish people, and will remain so for the reasons that my reasons. As long as many of them continue to work in Europe to create their own independent nation-states, they will continue the transition to a new paradigm forward, which it is extremely difficult to a nation like Israel is to give a place. I am aware that many Europeans are hoping for a different Israel. I personally hope that we will experience a change in attitude in Europe. Decent People should be able to look at Israel and to recognize that the Jewish state is not necessary so the new paradigm is unsuitable, because something is rotten in Israel, but because perhaps there is something wrong in the new paradigm. Perhaps the European Union is not in any way such a promising idea, as was suspected. Perhaps the people of Europe have been wrong and estimated their national independence is too low and were willing to forego a price too low for them. History is fickle and changeable, and who today can not recognize, maybe tomorrow it will recognize very clearly. If Europeans first occasion, have the value they accord to their national traditions and their national independence to review, is the example of Israel, perhaps of greater interest to them - in a positive way. And when that happens, I am sure, will strengthen the relations between Europeans and Israel, perhaps surprisingly fast. from English by Siegfried Kohlhammer
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Other reports are the widespread phenomenon of rape of Christian girls, often underage. It's some kind of ritual humiliation, a demonstration of Islamic men's privileges on the "conquered". According to reports, five-year olds are raped. The Europeans hard to imagine hate of Muslims in the country occupied by Americans Christian targets initially directed to the occupiers, they increasingly came to local Christians, since they usually belong to the educated middle class and would be preferred by Americans as a people. Sister Hatune reported including the case of the mother of several children, who worked as a cleaner for Americans in Iraq and one day when leaving the house of her employer was shot. According to Thomas Krapf, a Berlin-based expert on the region, is terror against Christians "nationwide" are used, such as the actions in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, where Islamic militias have "burned" in a few nights, hundreds of stores Assyrian Christians. In the Koran (sura 2.193, 8.39, etc.) offered dhimmi tax for Christians and Jews, jizya, would be introduced in this way again. Christian business people, they have to pay only differ on the basis of faith, in addition to their other duties. Those who pay protection money within the deadline, is to leave the place and to surrender his possession of the "mosque" forced (2). Sister Hatune noted on that occasion that anti-Christian sentiment and action in Islam have a long history. In the Koran, Sura 9, 30, says: "And speak the Nazarene., The Messiah is the son of Allah ' ... Allah, beat them dead! As they are without understanding "is Spread the Tactics to kidnap Christian girls and asking the family for a ransom. Here, too, sources tell of a difficult to imagine Europeans cruelty to women and girls. Hatune sister sent the case of a 7 year old, who had been raped repeatedly over the years. Later, the girl had "slashed in the genitals." The child was severely traumatized and respond today, after years, "completely phlegmatic." The pictures of the girl who sat expressionless face in her lap, were muffled sounds, and not been able to express themselves properly, would you not stop thinking Go said the young nun, who studied theology in Germany. It is from these reports, "even traumatized." The nurse tells of a Chaldean priest, whose wife was raped before his eyes. The father of two children was subsequently abducted by kidnappers and sexual abuse. Seventy thousand € relatives had to go to in order to free him. Meanwhile, the family could flee to the United States. In another case, had to pay a Christian family for the release of a 9 year old girl more than thirty thousand euro. Previously, the girl was held captive for three weeks and was raped every day. Overall sister wants Hatune with 202 girls raped and have spoken young women aged between 5 and 25 years, Christians from Iraq that have been violated by militant Muslims. Reports on the atrocities rarely came to the West. While UN officials in Syria were regularly informed about it, but Muslim employees would not be charges against their fellow Muslims and would prefer it to destroy it. Many such stories were of the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, known by Christians who fled abroad reports. On Good Friday 2007, in Baghdad in the street, a 14-year-old boy have been nailed to a cross and stabbed with a sword from below. The bystanders mocked the crucified teens ". You say you belong to Jesus, then he will come and save you" Another 14 year old was crucified in October in Baghdad's Al-Basra area. In February 2007, a Christian Iraqi woman, a mother of 6 children, killed in Baghdad because she covers her head with a cloth, had not the prescribed Muslim chador. Her youngest son was only three months old. The father had previously been killed by militant Muslims.
in early March 2007 stated the UN agency UNHCR that Christians in Iraq, their lives were no longer safe. Religiously motivated violence are increasing further, so try each month to thousands of Christians left the country. According to Roland Schönbauer of UNHCR Austria had in Iraq has increased the violence against Christians and their churches exploded since the beginning of what triggering an exodus of Oriental Christians. The situation is complicated by the attitude of the Iraqi police, said Thomas Krapf "works in part with the persecutors". According to a report in French newspaper Le Monde in March 2008, "far more than half" of Iraqi Christians had left the country (3). Among the displaced are members of the oldest Christian Communities such as Chaldean, Assyrian followers of the churches of the East, Syrian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Armenian, Chaldean Catholic, Roman Catholic, Evangelical Free Church or Christians. According to Krapf also very unusual, otherwise extinct group belonged to the Christian minority in Iraq, such as the so-called John-Christians, of which there should have been another 35 days to Sadam 000, still about three thousand. The loss of culture for the region, the world for Christianity, is unimaginable.
same time, Christians also live elsewhere in the Middle East, including Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, under constant pressure. Cases of abduction Christian girl who lives in Jerusalem Christian observer David Parsons reported from the Palestinian territories, about which the 16 year old Adriana Sabat from Bethlehem (4). An obvious device is driving the violence of protection money by Hamas and Fatah people, that many Christian businessmen forced to emigrate. Back in 2003, told the American magazine Newsweek, the Christian population in the Palestinian territories has shrunk in this way 110 000 (before the Oslo agreement) to less than 50 000. According to the Palestinian Authority itself, the David Parsons determined, their number 1997-2002 has dropped to 25 000. Most Palestinian Christians fled abroad after the Palestinian Authority officials confiscate their land or commit other violent attacks on their property and their families. A Christian businessman in Beit Sahur documented 34 cases of illegal land grab known him by the executor of the Palestinian National Authority, often laughable pretexts that led to the emigration of the expropriated almost always Christians. "There is a clear intention to Islamize Bethlehem," confirmed a spokesman for the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem (5). Compared to the Milan daily Corriere della Sera said Father Pizzaballa, prior to the Palestinian land living Franciscans: "Almost every day, I repeat, every day is our Congregation of Muslim extremists in the 'areas' attacks (...) It has happened that such attacks by Mahmud Abbas's policemen are made by those which actually are there to protect us. "(6)
Such statements are relatively rare. To the detriment of the Palestinian Christians are the official representatives of the churches keep mostly covered and avoid an open word. For this behavior, David Parsons a plausible explanation: "The historic explanation for the silence of Arab leaders in the Church face Muslim persecution is well known. It stems from their long, sad status in dhimmitude - a survivalist mentality passed down through the generations that conditions them to never say anything bad about their Muslim neighbors -. Since it could prove deadly '(7) It is difficult for the prosecution Write to the Christians in the Middle East, because this issue is a gray area in the official record. In Iraq or Lebanon or the Palestinian territories, there are unobstructed journalistic research. The work of journalists, writers or film people is extremely dangerous and exposed to constant surveillance. Time and again journalists are kidnapped or killed. Moreover, the Auskunftswilligkeit the people living there, even those to whom the prosecution is, for fear of retaliation seriously impeded. A source as sister Hatune receives their information and eyewitness reports in comparatively harmless neighboring countries like Jordan, not at the point of persecution itself David Parsons of the International Christian Embassy, who has been writing for years over the issue, lives in the Jewish part of Jerusalem under the protection Israeli weapons. The Christian publisher Thomas Krapf spreading his knowledge gained in the region from the relative safety of Berlin. The American, Michael Finkel, who in December 2007, researched in the National Geographic one spot, but not until later in the USA written Report on the situation of Christians in Bethlehem published avoids emotional expressions and the open condemnation of the perpetrators. For them all - and each interested in this topic - it would be impossible to report from the scene directly.
European media shy away from the topic of Christian persecution for other reasons. They are afraid to raise anti-Islamic sentiments, first in their own countries, European countries with millions of Muslim citizens. To respond today, most Islamic groups and parties hostile to any critical reporting, even on historical events - the best example is in Turkey existing criminal sanctions underscored ban to deal with the Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1915. Under certain circumstances, a critical word trigger global reactions associated with new Muslim violence. Several times, films, media reports, a sentence in a speech that even cartoons or others have been found by European standards, more personal statements than a source of political unrest, international protests and diplomatic complications. Not only for their own personal risk Western journalists shy away from the thorny issue, even out of respect for her newspaper, her magazine, her television or Radio stations. As the professional sector as a whole is threatened and is under surveillance of Islamic groups, formed under the media people a tacit consensus, not to stir as possible to dangerous issues. Also, economic reasons play a role, the interests of Arab organizations, States and its Western partners. Often messages are simply suppressed.
difficult it is less to report on the refugee plight of Iraqi Christians in neighboring countries, although Western journalists there that deal with the many Muslims are uncomfortable about, disability, and permanent observation exercise. In Jordan, Syria and other Islamic countries to flee to the Iraqi Christians who go to them, not to life, or their conditions are hardly better than in Iraq itself there are no state aid for the refugees, no work permit. They live on savings brought back from Iraq until they are exhausted, then many of the prostitution of their minor children. In Turkey Hatune sister spoke with a 13-year-old girl whose father was killed in Iraq. The family shares a room in a basement without drainage, in the rats scurry back and forth. After a few months the family had nothing to eat. The mother asked the 15 year old sister into prostitution, to raise money for the family. The 15 year old had burns all over his body from the cigarettes that you put the suitors on their bare skin. As Muslims it is forbidden to touch other Muslim women, they adhere to Christian prostitutes, "in which they can vent their faith hate." Sister Hatune succeeded with the help of donations, free this and other girls from prostitution. In Syria, have opened in the last three years, thirty new brothel, 99% of prostitutes are Christian refugees from Iraq, which apply in this way the livelihood for their families. 5% of prostitutes are male, "because die Familien keine Mädchen haben, die sie auf den Strich schicken können“.
Insgesamt sollen nach Angaben von Thomas Krapf seit dem Sturz Sadam Husseins etwa siebzehn Prozent der irakischen Bevölkerung auf die eine oder andere Weise zu Flüchtlingen geworden sein. Man hätte mit Hunderttausenden christlicher Flüchtlingen zu rechnen, die ihr angestammtes Milieu verlassen und in einem muslimischen Nachbarland oder andernorts im Irak – möglichst weit vom Ort der Verfolgung, etwa im kurdischen Norden – ein Unterkommen suchen. Andere christliche Quellen nennen noch höhere Zahlen: rund zwei Millionen irakische Flüchtlinge befänden sich in Syrien, 750 000 in Jordanien, 100 000 in Ägypten, 15 000 in Turkey, about 40 000 in Lebanon. Before the Iraq war, Hatune sister would be 13% of Iraqis have been Christians today because of the persecution of only 3%. Confirmed by the state figures are not available. Observers speak of the war had made several million Iraqis into refugees, Iraqis of all possible origins: Sunni Muslims, who must flee Shiite terrorist groups, or vice versa, Shiite Muslims fleeing Sunni or Christians in the crosshairs get both. Be preached in the mosques ". The time of the sword has come upon the Christians," How
of despotic regimes liberated countries often, Iraq is dictated by Saddam Hussein initially a legal vacuum in which the specific participant in a location at a particular time the most powerful law, including the right of residence of the others. An aggravating factor is that, after the end of Saddam's ancient intra-Islamic hatred between different religious directions breaks. It is never resolved, only under totalitarian pressure suspended-old Arab tribal feuds or aversions between different, under penalty converted to Islam centuries ago ethnicities. In the Middle East, tolerance was always an unknown quantity, and is, with the sole exception of Israel, to this day. The experimental installation of democratic structures in Arab States to the Islamic resistance men companies that rely on tribal protectionism, segregation and a moral code, which the British explorer Sir William Muir brought Islam to the shorthand encounters: honor and revenge, honor and revenge. Women in this society have no say. The intra-political constellation is traditionally the contempt of the "other" not shaped for their own group belonging, racial, religious or other reasons. The surviving aversions between groups, tribes, states create an atmosphere of permanent fear. The only real cohesion of these societies is based in the Islam introduced the "community of believers" and that community offered permanent struggle against the "infidels". Where does this outwardly fight is prevented, there is a risk that dominate the internal dissensions, the never-forgotten tribal rivalries, ethnic or religious intolerance motivated divisions within Islam and between Shiites and Sunnis.
live in this area of the Christians of the Middle East since a half millennia. In addition to the Jews of the region they belonged to the long-established populations, especially in the cities and areas of agricultural civilization, than that of Mohamed under the banner of Islam united Bedouin tribes by force came to dominance. They are not "foreigners", not "guests" in Muslim countries, but the oldest stock in some places the indigenous population. They have, like the oriental Jews, and a half millennia of existence were degrading dhimmi in Muslim countries, under changing conditions of relative tolerance among pragmatic caliph to cruel persecution and bloody massacres in periods of Muslim fanaticism.
But only these days it seems to work, drive them to sustained from the region. Precedent was also the expulsion of the old established Jewish minorities in most Arab and Muslim countries after 1948. It has been long in the West do not understand that the expulsion was the Oriental Jews from countries of their ancestral existence, such as Egypt, Libya, Syria or Saudi Arabia, only the first step in the process of the targeted total Islamisation of the Middle East. It has accepted that Arab and other Muslim countries laid claim to a privilege that would allow any European country ever: the "Jewish purity" of their territories. By giving them the "Jewish purity" conceded that they were on the Expulsion of the Christians, the "cleansing" of their countries from other faiths actually encouraged. To date, the European Union supports a "peace process between Israel and the Palestinians", which requires the "liquidation" of the Jewish settlements and the deportation of the Jews living in the Palestinian territories as a conditio sine qua non. Logical consequence of such a "peace" - as the fate of Palestinian Christians since the Oslo agreement shows - the expulsion of the indigenous Christian populations from the "Palestinian Authority" passed areas.
To the Christians in the Middle East would really help, the European Union policy in principle, transform the region. To wait for this kind enables the urgent need not of the affected people. Sister Hatune submitted to the European Parliament at a hearing in Brussels more practical suggestions, such as the, to create a protective zone for Iraqi Christians in Iraq, which allows them to further stay in this country. Second, it appeals to the European nations, Iraqi Christians have already fled to neighboring countries and there are living in inhuman conditions include as asylum seekers. In the neighboring Muslim countries have no Iraqi Christians protection of life, no work permit and would be considered illegal. All refugees who have so far met the nun, had expressed a strong desire never to have to return to Iraq because they lived there permanently under threat. They requested to be included in safe countries in which they are not harassed by Muslim reprisals and vegetate in inhuman conditions must.
Europe, now incorporated by growing Islamic populations afflicted, would do well to develop its sense of solidarity, to send a signal to actively help. The fate of Iraqi Christians is a catastrophe for Europe. Beginnings is discrimination against Christians long ago in Europe itself, in those regions, neighborhoods and places where Muslims are already the majority. Concerned observers register the increase in no-go areas for Christians and Jews in the middle of European territories, in England, Norway or the Netherlands (8). Abenländische Christian symbols, curriculum content, traditions are banned for fear of the known over-reaction of Muslim citizens from European schools and educational institutions. The "de-Christianization" of Europe takes its course, aided by an atmosphere of modern Christophobia and cultural aversion. Mohamed is the religious warriors conquering Territories offered. Every school, every district, every city in Europe to steal them from the influence of Christian culture consider it as a victory in their "holy struggle".
Chaim Noll is a German-Israeli writers
© Chaim Noll, 2010
notes, sources:
(1) information that
http://www.sisterhatunefoundation.com
. The Syrian Orthodox nun of German nationality who founded a relief organization, "Helping Hands for the Poor", account 11 00 82 32 at Sparkasse Paderborn (BLZ 472 501 01)
(2) telephone information from Dr. Thomas Krapf, Berlin, 06.08.2008. see also Krapf publication in courage Asendorf, Nr.490, No. 6 / 2008. To see jizya Chaim Noll, hatred of Jews in Islam, Tribune, Frankfurt, No. 185, 2008
(3) The report in Le Monde said, previously had lived about 700 000 Christians in Iraq. Other sources suggest the number is much higher.
Supplement, May-August 2005
(5) Dark Days in Bethlehem. Newsweek, 29 September 2003(6) David Parsons, Our Battered Brethren, Jerusalem Post, Christian
Edition, January 2006(7) ibid.
(8) Bishop warns of no-go areas. In: comma. The Magazine
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