Yoshie, would you please not post extensive excerpts in languages other than English? A short phrase, translated, is something else. Long quotes are gratuitious displays of condescending erudution. Everyone knows you are smart and read lots of stuff in lots of languages. If you feel the need ti post a link in Spanish or Farsi or whatever, please do, but just the URL, OK? Doug, could you enforce this please?
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > (I wish whatever yoshiepedia she uses during these
> debates
> > would be offered by google someday)
>
> The idea of encyclopedia, so eighteenth-century, is
> sexy, or so I
> would like to think. :->
>
> > Sadism and Sadrism, from one day to the next.
>
> For the world needs the Enlightenment and Islam:
>
> "Volviendo al comienzo: el mundo islámico de 2006
> necesita muchos
> Voltaire para salir de su atraso, ignorancia y de
> las luchas sectarias
> que le desgarran. El cambio de estatus de la mujer,
> este subproducto
> nocivo de raíz bíblica -- la fórmula es mía, no de
> Voltaire --
> constituye un instrumento indispensable para todo
> proyecto
> modernizador y algunos pasos recientes en la buena
> dirección deben ser
> alentados. Pero, junto al Voltaire radical en su
> lucha contra la
> intolerancia, hay mucho que aprender también del que
> se esforzó en
> analizar con pragmatismo la diversidad y antinomias
> de las sociedades
> musulmanas de su siglo, por muy diferentes que sean
> de las del nuevo
> milenio. Nada peor para nuestro futuro que
> recurrir, como los
> doctrinarios exaltados de hoy, al viejo espíritu de
> las Cruzadas"
> (Juan Goytisolo, "Voltaire y el islam," El País, 4
> May 2006,
>
<http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2006/05/voltaire_y_el_i.html>).
>
> Returning to the beginning: the Islamic world of
> 2006 needs many
> Voltaires to leave behind its ignorance,
> backwardness, and sectarian
> battles that are tearing it up. Change in women's
> status, an
> injurious byproduct of the Biblical origin -- the
> formula is mine, not
> Voltaire's -- constitutes an indispensable
> instrument for any
> modernizing project, and some recent steps in the
> good direction must
> be encouraged. But, next to the radical Voltaire in
> his battle
> against intolerance, there is also much to learn
> from the Voltaire who
> endeavored to pragmatically analyze the diversity
> and antinomies of
> Muslim societies of his century, no matter how
> different they are from
> those of the new millennium. Nothing worse for our
> future than to
> resort, like the exalted doctrinaires of today, to
> the old spirit of
> the Crusades.
> --
> Yoshie
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
> <http://mrzine.org>
> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
>
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