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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:32 pm    Post subject: Upcoming gay film Reply with quote

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4447366.stm

Oh my. This could start a whole new round of anger.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you ever read this book? I highly recommend it.

The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, by Irshad Manji

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312326998/qid=1139974075/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9251678-9342531?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

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This "call for reform" reads like an open letter to the Muslim world. Irshad Manji, a Toronto-based television journalist, was born to Muslim parents in South Africa. Her family eventually fled to Canada when she was two years old. Manji shares her life experiences growing up in a Western Muslim household and ask some compelling questions from her feminist-lesbian-journalist perspective. It is interesting to note that Manji has been lambasted for being too personal and not scholarly enough to have a worthwhile opinion. Yet her lack of pretense and her intimate narrative are the strengths of this book. For Muslims to dismiss her opinions as not worthy to bring to the table is not only elitist; it underscores why she feels compelled to speak out critically. Intolerance for dissent, especially women's dissent, is one of her main complaints about Islam. Clearly, her goal was not to write a scholarly critique, but rather to speak from her heartfelt concern about Islam. To her fellow Muslims she writes:
I hear from a Saudi friend that his country's religious police arrest women for wearing red on Valentines Day, and I think, Since when does a merciful God outlaw joy—or fun? I read about victims of rape being stoned for "adultery" and I wonder how a critical mass of us can stay stone silent.


As they said, it's not a scholarly critique, but it wasn't meant to be, and she does back up everything she says with references.

She's a Canadian Muslim lesbian feminist journalist. (Whew!) Really cute, too. But she's Muslim (very liberal Muslim) and I doubt I ever will be.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dang.... even celluloid has sex?? What am I doing wrong??


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Bulsajo



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Troll_Bait wrote:

She's a Canadian Muslim lesbian feminist journalist. (Whew!)

I wonder if "BBE" knows her.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it a film BY gay people, ABOUT gay people and FOR gay people?

If not, then there's no need to call it a gay film.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay.


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