"This time around, we are fortunately no longer at the mercy of these ghastly news organisations to do their bigotry apace, frighten our communities out of their wits, and then once they are caught red-handed with their horrid racism just write a cursory “correction” and think it done with. This time around the miracle of the New Media - from Al Jazeera and Jadaliyya to countless blogs, Facebook pages, YouTube clips, tweeters, etc - has made it possible to grab these white supremacist racists by the throat of their conceited mendacity and force them to look at their ugly faces. The age of European colonial hubris and American imperial arrogance is over. This is the season of the Arab Spring. We talk back. This gang of badly educated, monolingual, provincial goons who masquerade as responsible journalists and is quick to assume the posture of a respectable institution, and who even congratulate themselves to be the paper of record and keep giving themselves the Pulitzer Prize, and who have for generations intimidated our parents and children will never, should never, be left off the hook this time around. They have frightened our parental generation into silence. We will not allow them to send our children to school yet again frightened by their names and their parental faith and by who and what they are. They have terrorised us enough. It is time to get even and theorise them."
Hamid Dabashi, “Norway: Muslims and metaphors,” Al Jazeera English (July 31, 2011).
