Re: Toor on Roy & Indo-chic

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Would you be still touting Saadia Toor if you knew what she has to say
> > about Iran, Islamophobia, and Western LGBTQ human rights activism?  I
> > suspect she would regard your view of Islam, Muslims, etc. as
> > neo-Orientalist.
> >
> > You can listen to what Toor (as well as Kourosh Shemirani of Qiam) has
> > to say about Islamophobia at
> > <http://outfm.org/images/stories/2007/03/070312_100001outfm-dst.mp3>.
>
> I'm impressed with how quickly you read Toor's essay and listened to
> that radio show! Thanks for the pointer to it; I was pleased to hear
> such a high level of conversation on WBAI, and it validated my
> invitation to Toor to appear on my show.
>
> Actually, I can't think of a thing she said in that interview that
> I'd disagree with. Not only her critique of the assistance that
> western human rights types can give to imperialism, and the damage
> they can do to their putative allies in aborad, but also the
> wonderful moment where she resisted the host's identification of
> herself as Muslim, saying: "I'm a Marxist, a Communist, so I'm
> against organized religion in general."

I had read the essay before you posted it here, and I had advertised
the show before its airing.

You had been touting the very type of human rights activism
uncommitted to anti-imperialism that Toor, et al. criticize, regarding
homosexuals in Iran, which you were sure (and may be still convinced)
was executing gay men for their sexual identity, among other things.
--
Yoshie