A Jihad for Love: Special Screening and Q&A

Keshet18 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:30:33 -0400

Keshet and MASALA invite you to join us for a special screening of this daring documentary exploring the lives of devout gay and lesbian Muslims. A discussion with director/producer Parvez Sharma and producer Sandi Dubowski (director of Trembling Before G-d) will follow. Read more about a Jihad for Love at: http://ajihadforlove.com/
Details:
Tuesday, July 1, 7:15 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA 02446

Why he won't post those Mohammed cartoons

adamg — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:01:30 -0500

Anybody who's read Dowbrigade for more than a few days knows Michael Feldman doesn't shy away from attacking sacred cows - or from posting possibly offensive images. But he won't be posting any of those Danish Mohammed cartoons - a decision he came to only after some agonizing and even after thinking publication would be something he'd be williing to risk his job over (since his workplace has many Muslim clients):

... Then we thought of some of our Muslim students, past and present, not as Muslims or as students, but as people. People we knew and liked and respected. People we would not want to insult or offend in any normal personal, social or professional situation. ...

In the end, though, he does link to a site that's posted them.

Sunni Sister, who is Moslem, says there is another side to the whole story - and that economic boycotts, of the kind used so successfully by Christian conservatives in the U.S., are the way to deal with anti-Moslem speech:

... You see, my friends, it is free speech when they portray the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in such a manner, but a criminal act if someone in those same countries makes provocative (or outright false) statements about the Holocaust. So it's not about "free speech," it's about asserting their dominance over the Muslim world and over the Muslims in their countries, who are already in positions of extreme difficulty. Us Mozzies have gotten a little too uppity for their tastes lately, I guess. Need to be reminded by our old European masters who has the upper hand.

What I personally find troubling about this is that while the Germans, French, Austrians, Belgians, and others have laws against Holocaust deniers, now, today, in the name of free speech and democracy their governments and certain people within their societies are spreading the same sort of hateful propaganda against Muslims, Arabs, and Africans. ...

Other local bloggers, though, have not shied away from either reprinting some of the cartoons or telling those attacking the cartoons where they can go:

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A Jihad for Love: Special Screening and Q&A

Why he won't post those Mohammed cartoons