Martin Amis - Islamophobic? Moi?

[John Carvill]

Well, Rich, the story was not exactly unconnected to Amis's politica
vies, was it?

I don't think his comments were ill-considered at all, since he
continues to make them.

Muslims today are becoming like Jews in the 1930s. Despicible of Amis
to be fuelling that.


2009/8/30 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> Amis has said some of his words were ill-considered but the general
> sense I get from all his statements re: islam is his focus on radical
> islam which I don't see how anyone can really defend for a variety of
> reasons.
>
> Regardless of what Amis believes I was directing folks to the story
> and see what they think.
>
> rich
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:44 AM, John Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> the other the last day of mohammed atta-
>>
>> I would advise against reading that one. Made me really angry. Amis
>> has gone stark raving mad since September 11th. To be fair, he's not
>> the only one. But he is one of the leading edges of the sort of
>> relentlessly ignorant, hyper-hawkish Islamophobia that's taking us
>> further and further into a more unstable world.
>>
>> His comments on Muslims - to whom Amis feels 'morally superior' - are
>> as sickening as it gets. Here's a sample:
>>
>> "The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in
>> order.’ What sort of suffering? Not letting them travel. Deportation –
>> further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people
>> who look like they’re from the Middle East or from Pakistan…
>> Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they
>> start getting tough with their children...It’s a huge dereliction on
>> their part"
>>
>> Have a look at this, if you want to see the funny side, which I damit
>> does exist, but the serious side is pretty frightening:
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/25/bookscomment.religion
>>
>