Friday, September 13, 2002

Radical Muslim Thought Experiment

i'm now at a commuter university and this place is boring. i want to start a discussion circle about muslim culture to try to rile things up down here. i've named it: RADICAL MUSLIM THOUGHT EXPERIMENT. i want to post up fliers all over campus with a list of outrageous topics, a time and place to meet, and see who shows up. the discussion circle would be a place to talk about anything you ever wanted to get muslims to think about but were afraid of getting shot by a ______. ...here are my ideas some topics this semester, would you come if you saw this list? #1-deconstructing ugly: discussing meanings of beauty, then seeing if it exists among muslims; #2-love movement and a heretic ghazali brother: discussing a concept of love based on classic persian muslim thought; #3-examining wahhabism salafism izm skizm: islam's protestant reformation or murderous extremism, you decide; #4-muslim jazz and black power islam: h.rap and other experiments in crafting an indigenous american islam; #5-identity crisis, serching for a nisbah: american-muslim, american of indian descent, or just al-amriki; #6-dude, this mullah sucks: leading a revolt against a local imam, the imam husayn's shia and ibn zubayr factor; #7-muslims and music, who says its against islam: listening to and discussing junoon, mos def, everlast, and islam themed songs; #8-mun kunto mawla, ali ul mawla: listening to, discussing and getting mustt mustt with qawali; #9-picturing rasul allah: idolatry and the issue of drawing images, discussing the fatwas and persian miniature paintings.