Contemporary Chaos and Muslim Youth
Why should I, your after-dinner speaker, a time for dessert – for sweetness – be the bearer of exclusively bad news, of chapters from the contemporary chaos that seemingly surrounds us. “The Darkness that Surrounds Us,” to call upon the words of a great American poet Robert Creeley, who, I imagine,...
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oai:doaj.org-article:9ea6ec206d6743daa03b26fb2f70c2472021-12-02T19:23:17ZContemporary Chaos and Muslim Youth10.35632/ajis.v22i4.16752690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/9ea6ec206d6743daa03b26fb2f70c2472005-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1675https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Why should I, your after-dinner speaker, a time for dessert – for sweetness – be the bearer of exclusively bad news, of chapters from the contemporary chaos that seemingly surrounds us. “The Darkness that Surrounds Us,” to call upon the words of a great American poet Robert Creeley, who, I imagine, never would have imagined that his own troubling personal vision would become an easily recognized metaphor to be invoked, as I invoke it, at a gathering of Muslim social scientists. Well, there are some good signs, like a nice after dinner mint that one discovers tucked just under one’s plate at the end of the meal, and I will get to them. My assumption is that I am really not here to tell you of things you know, living as you do in the United States … things you know far better than I, particularly since, as a journalist, I feel on safest ground when I report to you from personal experience. I cannot and will not even begin to address the many moments of humiliation and pain that many American Muslims have experienced in the backlash to 9/11 and the events that have followed, precisely because I have been personally spared any those experiences. So, I will address experiences from which I have not been spared. I have lived abroad, in what could be called the Arab-Islamic world, for forty years. And for me, the trajectory of contemporary chaos and the crisis confronting the Muslim youth has been a long one, long before 9/11. More than half of those years in the Middle East were spent as a journalist, mainly ... S. Abdallah SchleiferInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 22, Iss 4 (2005) |
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Why should I, your after-dinner speaker, a time for dessert – for sweetness
– be the bearer of exclusively bad news, of chapters from the contemporary
chaos that seemingly surrounds us. “The Darkness that Surrounds Us,” to
call upon the words of a great American poet Robert Creeley, who, I imagine,
never would have imagined that his own troubling personal vision
would become an easily recognized metaphor to be invoked, as I invoke it,
at a gathering of Muslim social scientists. Well, there are some good signs,
like a nice after dinner mint that one discovers tucked just under one’s plate
at the end of the meal, and I will get to them.
My assumption is that I am really not here to tell you of things you
know, living as you do in the United States … things you know far better
than I, particularly since, as a journalist, I feel on safest ground when I report
to you from personal experience. I cannot and will not even begin to address
the many moments of humiliation and pain that many American Muslims
have experienced in the backlash to 9/11 and the events that have followed,
precisely because I have been personally spared any those experiences. So,
I will address experiences from which I have not been spared.
I have lived abroad, in what could be called the Arab-Islamic world, for
forty years. And for me, the trajectory of contemporary chaos and the crisis
confronting the Muslim youth has been a long one, long before 9/11. More
than half of those years in the Middle East were spent as a journalist, mainly ...
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