Martin Amis - Islamophobic? Moi?

[rich]

John--

forget about what Amis said for a minute--we can bat that one back and
forth and I'm not gonna speak for him or his beliefs

I'm talking about the fiction
The Last Days story was interesting for me as it showed Atta as even
disconnected from his fellow hijackers.
I did not find anything in it that was disparaging of islam.






On 8/31/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
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