Irshad Manji on Park51
What’s this? A thoughtful, non-demagogued, and thought-provoking piece on Park51? Heaven forfend!
by Mark of New Jersey · August 26, 2010
What’s this? A thoughtful, non-demagogued, and thought-provoking piece on Park51? Heaven forfend!
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The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
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Is this, at last, the voice of the moderate Muslim that will satisfy those who claim there are no such people? It’s hard to imagine Ms. Manji saying things like these and being dismissed as taqiyya.Report
The article isn’t outright crazy, but
1. She’s insisting that Park 51 be more progressive than an Orthodox Jewish synagogue.
2. She’s blaming Rauf for the controversy about the site, as if it hadn’t been ginned up by the Right Wing Noise Machine. (Hey, Ms. Half-termer, more Bangladeshis died in 9/11 than Alaskans.)
3. She’s comparing apples to freight trains. The Muhammad cartoons were a deliberate attempt to insult Islam. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ) Park 51 is not a deliberate attempt to insult non-Muslims.
The fact that this piece can be singled out as “thoughtful” just shows what crap almost everything else has been.Report
If Irshad Manji has ever felt as offended by the Danish caricatures as she is by Park51’s proximity to the site of 9/11, then maybe I can assume what she said is not a product of her feeling commandeered by a hijacked heart.
Will Irshad Manji be as enthusiastic signing up for an advance ticket to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech on Holocaust as to Salman Rushdie’s lecture? I wonder how far she can go with her pluralism of ideas.
And if Irshad Manji will ask the same questions born of the highest American ideals to all the other religious groups, then I’ll say she’s not opininated.Report