There's a video voice-overed by Roger Moore on the nature of this barbaric European delicacy.
Demonstrates the extreme nature of some tastes, especially when industrialised.
Allahumma forgive us, help us correct.
20.12.11
'Halal' Foie Gras
Encountered 'halal' foie gras the other day.
There's a video voice-overed by Roger Moore on the nature of this barbaric European delicacy.
Demonstrates the extreme nature of some tastes, especially when industrialised.
Allahumma forgive us, help us correct.
There's a video voice-overed by Roger Moore on the nature of this barbaric European delicacy.
Demonstrates the extreme nature of some tastes, especially when industrialised.
Allahumma forgive us, help us correct.
14.12.11
The Awami League of Ignocratic Fairy Tailoring strikes again
Two bits of very terrible news today. The first from Bangladesh as Awami Leage lecturers at Jahingirnagar University instigate a witch hunt on a history professor for including critical tracts by Sarmila Bose and Syed Sajjad Husain on the Bangladesh war. Apparently its anti-liberation and worth whipping up student frenzy and authority over. This is reminiscent of the treatment meted out to all who question the Logic of Liberation: that the Awami League, the Mukti Bahini and the Indian Army came down the chimney 40 years ago to fill our stockings with Liberation.
Awami fascism is at a peak these days as Bangladesh = 40 approaches, as opposition leaders are on trial for war crimes. There is interesting coverage of the trial proceedings over here , the witnesses for the prosecution arent very good it appears and the defence counsel himself is being harrassed and undermined by the government.
Squint and find silver linings.
One positive of having a trial is that its forcing the accused to counter the allegations against them, amplified and disseminated over the past 20 years. Their defence is unlikely to be given a fair hearing as the decisions have already been made and the vests involved are very interesting. 'Socially' its good because the population at large has been kept in the dark about important aspects of the Bangladesh War, now its harder for the media and government to drown out every single word they say.
That said, I am not naive about the truth emerging anytime soon.
This Kangaroo Court operates in a society where rage, envy and hurt have been channelled all wrong, into injustice making. Where human rights only apply whilst the awami league is in opposition, to the tune of aid money and towards secular liberal types of people. The NGOs, donors and parties have bought off the collective mind and for scholars its simply easier to reproduce the fairy tales of liberation that please the parties.
This is a protection of intellect, dignity and possible even life issue. Three central, essential objectives of the Sharia.
Prof Mushtaq Khan, of SOAS has been saying for a while that neither of the three narratives : Liberation, Independance and Succession are sufficient and that they dont work for us, so we must make a new one.
Awami fascism is at a peak these days as Bangladesh = 40 approaches, as opposition leaders are on trial for war crimes. There is interesting coverage of the trial proceedings over here , the witnesses for the prosecution arent very good it appears and the defence counsel himself is being harrassed and undermined by the government.
Squint and find silver linings.
One positive of having a trial is that its forcing the accused to counter the allegations against them, amplified and disseminated over the past 20 years. Their defence is unlikely to be given a fair hearing as the decisions have already been made and the vests involved are very interesting. 'Socially' its good because the population at large has been kept in the dark about important aspects of the Bangladesh War, now its harder for the media and government to drown out every single word they say.
That said, I am not naive about the truth emerging anytime soon.
This Kangaroo Court operates in a society where rage, envy and hurt have been channelled all wrong, into injustice making. Where human rights only apply whilst the awami league is in opposition, to the tune of aid money and towards secular liberal types of people. The NGOs, donors and parties have bought off the collective mind and for scholars its simply easier to reproduce the fairy tales of liberation that please the parties.
This is a protection of intellect, dignity and possible even life issue. Three central, essential objectives of the Sharia.
Prof Mushtaq Khan, of SOAS has been saying for a while that neither of the three narratives : Liberation, Independance and Succession are sufficient and that they dont work for us, so we must make a new one.
British Masochists for Sadistic Domination?
[Inspired by Wikipedia]
BMSD is an buerotic preference and a form of sexual political expression involving the consensual use of white structures of power, intense secular stimulation, and fantasy power games. The compound BMSD is derived from the terms: british, a national formation in decline; Muslim, the subjectivity targetted for attack; secular, the vice of godlesness in polity; and democracy, a form of political charade whereby the people are duped. BMSD performs a limited range of activities, supplicates to secular authority and reproduces forms of indistinct blandness.
BMSD is an buerotic preference and a form of sexual political expression involving the consensual use of white structures of power, intense secular stimulation, and fantasy power games. The compound BMSD is derived from the terms: british, a national formation in decline; Muslim, the subjectivity targetted for attack; secular, the vice of godlesness in polity; and democracy, a form of political charade whereby the people are duped. BMSD performs a limited range of activities, supplicates to secular authority and reproduces forms of indistinct blandness.
7.12.11
[New Word] Yaarmchair
The position adopted by the english-educated native informant prickistani on goings on (s)he has no knowledge of. Found with great frequency in thinktanks in Washington and London and published reputefully.
[New Word] Shit Lit
Defn:
A mode of literary production, usually female, that grows in the post 9/11 cultural quagmire to demonstrate that Muslims can be just as superficial as their airhead counterparts in the rest of humanity.
Indistinguishable from other emelisms, shit lit is expected to acheive large sales. The damage caused by such interventions is partially offset by the inspiration they provide to those who's bogey's have more talent.
Eg. Desperate in Dubai, Kia Abdullah, Monica Ali etcetera etceterapossibly also mohsin hamid's yaarmchair-giri
A mode of literary production, usually female, that grows in the post 9/11 cultural quagmire to demonstrate that Muslims can be just as superficial as their airhead counterparts in the rest of humanity.
Indistinguishable from other emelisms, shit lit is expected to acheive large sales. The damage caused by such interventions is partially offset by the inspiration they provide to those who's bogey's have more talent.
Eg. Desperate in Dubai, Kia Abdullah, Monica Ali etcetera etceterapossibly also mohsin hamid's yaarmchair-giri
2.12.11
[New word] Britentious
To describe the misbeleif that dignity, confidence and uplift are to be found through national identity politics and adopting the inhuman ideologies and perspectives set within it.
Often accompanied with whiteous indignation, golf clubs, migritude, professionationalism, prevent/arts council funding, OBE/MBEs, cultural capitulation and terminal cases of acceptance seeking syndrome.
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