Re: Are we (Muslims in West) really invulnerable?
You can do all the integration and stuff on your part but it’s not going to make any difference unless the other party is ready to accept you.
A quote from Tony Mckenna’s article on Zizek’s analyses.
"A report from the FBI database covering the period from 1980-2005 *shows that only 6% of attacks occurring on US homeland soil were conducted by Islamic extremists. *However the media coverage of terrorism concentrates disproportionately on Islamic acts, sometimes even going as far as to assume the presence of Muslim fundamentalists without any supporting evidence. Violence against women, and particularly those cases in which victims are murdered in the name of ‘family honour’ are increasingly portrayed as a widespread Muslim phenomenon, though better informed studies such as one carried out by *the United Nations Commission on Human Rights have reported that such crimes are indeed cross-cultural. Žižek’s *analysis can help us make sense of how the theme of Islam may contribute to consolidating disparate social fears and traumas into a genocidal imaginary. This may look like a strong claim. Yet hints of its truth may be found even in the language of those who are in the political mainstream. In 2008, the now US secretary of defence Hillary Clinton felt sufficiently inflamed to threaten to obliterate the Islamic Republic of Iran if it launched an attack against Israel. This might be dismissed as bellicose sabre rattling if similar examples had not multiplied. Last month, for instance, disturbing reports exposed how a US military college has been teaching its alumni that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’ and moreover exhorting trainees to forget the ‘irrelevant’ al-Qaida as their main enemy in order to concentrate on the Islamic faith itself.
Even self-proclaimed rational intellectuals such as the *New Atheists*let elements of this hostile rhetoric slip into their discourses, as when, for instance, the late Christopher Hitchens fantasized about the destruction of Islamic ‘enemy troops’ as the steel pellets of cluster bombs ‘go straight through somebody and out the other side and through somebody else. And if they’re bearing a Koran over their heart, it’ll go straight through that, too.’