The CBC You Say!
Leave it to the Canadian Broadcasting System. Promo-boy, with his nauseatingly tireless voice lilting to improbably-promised heights of listening delight on Canada's premier radio station, ostensibly reflecting what Canadians want to hear, gave advance notice of Sunday being wholly dedicated to coverage of 9/11 remembrance. And then they set to it with a vengeance.
CBC Sunday morning host Michael Enright, with his typical, inimitable fawning over honoured guests had the great privilege of interviewing Tariq Ramadan, the renowned Oxford professor, as link between Islam and the West on Sunday Edition. Assiduously soft-voiced and carefully explaining the peaceful nature of Islam, the listener is bathed in a fantasy of the innocence of Islam.
No mention made of the incompatibility of a theocracy with democracy, for Ramadan identifies with England, "his country", and is himself a great exponent of the virtues of democracy. While justifying Islamic Sharia and the beauty of its family law justice that successfully shrivels the hair of enlightened Muslim women who know intimately what it has in store for them.
Michael Enright treading carefully, using the kind of verbiage that assiduously avoids any hint of censure and blame focusing on the anguish and unfair insults targeting innocent Muslims, arming the Western world with unspeakable suspicion of Islam, the religion of peace. And Tariq Ramadan, waxing poetic and ecstatic about the compatibility of western values and Islamic precepts.
As an apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood he represents as a skilled speaker, well prepared and agile, to offer his little reassuring homilies and glib interpretations, shielding Islam with a veneer of gentle piety. The listener can envision Enright's cocked head, attentively heeding his guest's explanations.
And the grand, sober music of Brahms concludes the agony, punctuating interviews to follow in much the same vein; supporting the sensibilities and tender sensitivities of the Muslim community who felt themselves embattled in dread and suspicion levelled against them by non-Muslims, reeling from the shock of the 9/11 atrocities.
Elsewhere, the media are replete with narratives of survivors of the 9/11 attacks, and sorrowing for those who were immolated, bodies smashed in the buildings' concussive shattering, or attempting to flee like birds on the wing from the disaster unfolding around them, but here, sad stories of innocent Muslims' fearful encounters with public enmity post-9/11.
A hushed reverence for the experience of the unfairly-judged ordinary Muslim living peaceful ordinary lives. Life is just so unfair. Well, it is, and being smeared with the broad brush of responsibility for heinous acts of destruction and mass murder they had nothing whatever to do with, is certainly unfair.
But in the greater balance of the reality of life and incidents beyond our control, the focus has been misappropriated in the interests of enlightened progressive sensibilities. Alas, they're the very same enlightened, progressive sensibilities that compel its practitioners to excuse the majority from overlooking the horrific excesses of their violent minority.
And that attitude, so very well exemplified by the issue of benighted moral relativity sees this as yet another example of misplaced sensibilities.
CBC Sunday morning host Michael Enright, with his typical, inimitable fawning over honoured guests had the great privilege of interviewing Tariq Ramadan, the renowned Oxford professor, as link between Islam and the West on Sunday Edition. Assiduously soft-voiced and carefully explaining the peaceful nature of Islam, the listener is bathed in a fantasy of the innocence of Islam.
No mention made of the incompatibility of a theocracy with democracy, for Ramadan identifies with England, "his country", and is himself a great exponent of the virtues of democracy. While justifying Islamic Sharia and the beauty of its family law justice that successfully shrivels the hair of enlightened Muslim women who know intimately what it has in store for them.
Michael Enright treading carefully, using the kind of verbiage that assiduously avoids any hint of censure and blame focusing on the anguish and unfair insults targeting innocent Muslims, arming the Western world with unspeakable suspicion of Islam, the religion of peace. And Tariq Ramadan, waxing poetic and ecstatic about the compatibility of western values and Islamic precepts.
As an apologist for the Muslim Brotherhood he represents as a skilled speaker, well prepared and agile, to offer his little reassuring homilies and glib interpretations, shielding Islam with a veneer of gentle piety. The listener can envision Enright's cocked head, attentively heeding his guest's explanations.
And the grand, sober music of Brahms concludes the agony, punctuating interviews to follow in much the same vein; supporting the sensibilities and tender sensitivities of the Muslim community who felt themselves embattled in dread and suspicion levelled against them by non-Muslims, reeling from the shock of the 9/11 atrocities.
Elsewhere, the media are replete with narratives of survivors of the 9/11 attacks, and sorrowing for those who were immolated, bodies smashed in the buildings' concussive shattering, or attempting to flee like birds on the wing from the disaster unfolding around them, but here, sad stories of innocent Muslims' fearful encounters with public enmity post-9/11.
A hushed reverence for the experience of the unfairly-judged ordinary Muslim living peaceful ordinary lives. Life is just so unfair. Well, it is, and being smeared with the broad brush of responsibility for heinous acts of destruction and mass murder they had nothing whatever to do with, is certainly unfair.
But in the greater balance of the reality of life and incidents beyond our control, the focus has been misappropriated in the interests of enlightened progressive sensibilities. Alas, they're the very same enlightened, progressive sensibilities that compel its practitioners to excuse the majority from overlooking the horrific excesses of their violent minority.
And that attitude, so very well exemplified by the issue of benighted moral relativity sees this as yet another example of misplaced sensibilities.
Labels: Canada, Culture, Human Relations, Politics of Convenience
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