The “anthropologist apologist and Muhammedan agent” will be more than happy to accept the kind invitation .

Have a nice, and fresher, time in OZ (Singapore is nice, but quite hot).

Gabriele

I am working with 3 computers. I saved parts of our discussions whenever I posted and I just couldn’t be bothered to put it all back together. Its not as important as killing the unbelievers.

So it was a technical problem? I’m pleased you put it back up (I’ll take your word for it!) and I agree that one should never trust a sheik!

No, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m afraid you have to trust me on this one!

Re wakademic fuckwits I’m glad we found something we can agree on and I’ll definitely have you for coffee (and dinner, my shout! ) if you should happen to get your feet on the ground in Oz.

This xenophobic racist redneck hillbilly and rabid Islamophobe is looking forward to your visit!

I still hope that when I move from Singapore to the fantastic world of OZ for my new position, we may one day share a coffee together.

Hey, you promised me to send back the comments that were lost. You did not do so! Never trust a Sheik :-p

Anyhow, somebody else sent the lost comments back and now (yours) are back as you can see. It was a technical problem, and you were clearly wrong in your allegations.

But, well, this is Sheik, and for him everything should be a conspiracy, even a technical problem on a poor anthropologist blog :-)

Going back to the Italian (better Florentine!) humor: yes indeed, you are right, I laughed. As many know, I am not a fun of postcolonial theory and post-colonial studies, even less of cultural studies. Many of these ’1970s’ styles do not make very much sense at all.

I oppose what it has been called ‘post-modernism’ and that troubling, but unfortunately very successful even today, academic approach.

It is from this kind of approach that some scholars make the absolutely nonsensical statement that Islam = peace.

Of course, as maybe you know, that kind of studies were linked to Marxism, and they are still affected very much by it.

Yet do not expect that this approach to race, colonialism and so forth, will disappear easily. It is here, unfortunately, to stay with us for a long time.

So, I am not surprise of the garbage you can find around. Yet academia and academics are not all the same.

stammi bene
Gabriele

You are quite right, I haven’t been back to your blog since you made our whole discussion thread disappear.

Feel free to post and rest assured that nothing disappears here on WoJ.

Please excuse the late reply, but I also run a business (among other things) and I don’t have that much time to engage in discussions this week and the next, but I’ll get back to answer you, definitely!

It is true that I’m quite harsh when it comes to wakademic f*kcwits in universities, I have had my fill and when you look at this here, you will agree that it doesn’t get any better, it gets worse by the day:

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/whites_not_all_right/

I’m sure you haven’t lost your (Italian) humor yet, and if that doesn’t crack you up I don’t know what does…

thank you for your response. I never, and you can check both my published work as well as my blog, affirmed that ‘Islam = peace’ (though, of course, I have to admit, knowing arabic, that the word Islam is related to the meaning of peace, but this is just a linguistic aspect).

Actually in one of my books I have criticized Esposito, and others, exactly for this reason. My position about religion is a bit more complex: religion in itself does not exist, you need a mind because you may have something called a religion; if you want to know more about my position, you can read here: http://marranci.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/the-anthropology-of-islam/

At the same time, yes indeed, there are Muslims whom have organized medical clinics, whom have donated their children’s organs to children of other religions (even to their “enemies” in one famous case in Israel”).

On the other hand, there are others who spend their time killing and spreading their ideology of hate. I suppose that you know that the majority of the victims of terrorist attacks committed by Muslims are innocent Muslims (in particular women and children), so they are of radicals and extremist fanatics.

This it is true also for the last attack in India! Think about 1990s and terrorism in Algeria… think about the atrocity committed for years and years in that country: whom the Muslim terrorist were killing? yes indeed, Muslims.

So I suppose the idea, often presented by some of ‘Muslims against the non-Muslims’ is a very bad simplification that actually helps the terrorist quite a lot.

To be Muslim, of course, does not mean anything (like to be Christian, Jews or Atheist). It is how a person and his or her mind is that makes the difference.

Best wishes
Gabriele

I’ll but-in and throw a punch at your “driven by ideology.” I can’t speak for the Sheik, but most of us are “driven” by the continued global blood Muslims enjoy shedding. If you happen to be one of those nutroots who feel “Islam is peaceful,” get back to me when the murdering monolith opens a medical clinic or food banks to aid the poor or nurture mankind.

I am still waiting that you clearly demonstrate that all anthropology (or sociology) is a “pseudo science”, although I have the impression that nothing for you is real science other than, of course, your own opinion made often blind ( to the degree of ridiculous) by Internet knowledge.

But I understand; this blog as well as your interest in Muslims is a hobby and a political passion and completely driven by ideology which, despite I disagree completely with its style and its often quite extreme, if not disturbing, approach, I respect.

Indeed, I can agree that some kind of ‘anthropology’ has more to do with imagination rather than science. I do not know Dr Sheleyah Courtney’s work or her personally. Yet I can say that, as an anthropologist, I tend to disagree with what she has written above.

Tanti saluti e a presto
Gabriele