[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: AE @ Huff Po: Media Reliance on Former Terrorists and Radical Is a Joke

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
AE @ Huff Po: Media Reliance on Former Terrorists and Radical Is a Joke
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1183503377.shtml


   [1]My latest is up at Huffington Post.

     With the publication of former radical Muslim recruiter Hasan
     Buttâs âplea to fellow Muslimsâ in UKâs Observer, the left-wing
     media is now playing the game initiated and developed by the
     American right-wing: assuming that former terrorists and radicals
     are a source of insight, or even of value, in dealing with
     radicalism and terror.

     To a problem that has myriad and contradictory prongs â social
     alienation, theologies fertile for nihilism, foreign invasions,
     political repression, even sexual and domestic violence â a former
     terrorist or radical is hardly a sufficient expert. If anything,
     the same mentality that led him to first seek out a one-stop utopia
     in radicalism, upon his conversion, leads him to posit a one-stop
     solution to it as well. Further, reliance upon these âformerâ
     radicals and criminals keeps the discourse about violence stuck in
     the past. We keep doing historiography; the terrorists keep
     evolving.

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References

   1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/media-reliance-on-former-_b_54842.html
   2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/media-reliance-on-former-_b_54842.html