Abstract
Measured to our western standards, [the prophet] Mohammed is a perverse man. A tyrant. He is against the freedom of speech... Mohammed is a role model for all Muslim men. Do you find it strange that so many Muslim men are violent? You are frightened when I say such things, but you make a mistake that most native Dutch make: you forget where I'm coming from. I was a Muslim, I know what I'm talking about. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali cited in Arjan Visser 2003; our translation) It is one matter to suffer violence and quite another to use that fact to ground a framework in which one's injury authorizes limitless aggression against targets that may or may not be related to the sources of one's own suffering.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 325-340 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Feminist Media Studies |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- Islam
- film
