A blog about feminism, religion/spirituality, history, and politics
According to Saeed A. Khan’s paper titled ‘Race’ and Difference: Orientalism and Western Concepts, ‘the Other’ is defined in Western discourse as “different, inferior and worthy of subjection to colonialism, while simultaneously praising aspects of the exotic, the erotic and primitive.” The original theory of the Other was coined as something that all humans inherently …
I’m tired of seeing those books at my local Barnes and Noble….all Muslims, who like going to bookstores, know exactly what I am talking about. The book about the poor Muslim women in war-torn countries who find the magic of Jesus. Oh, Praise the Lord! Okay, I’ll stop being sarcastic. Yet these books annoy me …