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On the Iconoclasm of Isis — Elliott Colla
▻http://www.elliottcolla.com/blog/2015/3/5/on-the-iconoclasm-of-isis

Finally, before Americans issue more blanket condemnations of ISIS’s ugly form of iconoclasm, we might do well to put our own selves back into the history of toppling statues in Iraq. Weren’t we championing iconoclasm and broadcasting it on our own television screens not so long ago? Didn’t we, as victors, begin our celebrations by toppling the sacred objects of our enemies? Is it that we, the civilized, abhor the wanton destruction of all objects and histories, or just some?

If iconoclasm is a sign of barbarism, and if the appreciation of artifacts is a sign of civilization, we would do well to get our own story straight. Failing this, we are condemned to go on living in this bloody hall of mirrors we have inherited from the barbarians, theirs and ours.

Elliott, sur l’iconoclasme d’Isis et celui des Américains.

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Pour ceux que le sujet intéresse :
Statues et idoles : à propos de la sculpture arabe
▻http://cpa.hypotheses.org/2297

‫مثقفون يطالبون باعتبار جماعة الإخوان منظمة إرهابية.. بيان مفتوح‬
▻https://www.facebook.com/notes/saad-elkersh/مثقفون-يطالبون-باعتبار-جماعة-الإخوان-منظمة-إرهابية-بيان-مفتوح/689725214378036?_rdr

C’est ancien (mi-août 2013) mais je le mets “for the record” (signalé par Elliott Colla dans un (encore) intéressant article sur Jadaliyya : ►http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15874/revolution-on-ice)

Sa traduction (plus commentaire développé dans l’article) vers l’anglais :

We, the signers of this statement, assert that the richness of Egypt as a country is in its diversity and tolerance of difference. We declare that the Muslim Brotherhood is an unpatriotic organization. Since its dubious founding in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has sought to sow division in the ranks of the nation. Back then, it opposed Egyptian nationalists in their struggle against the British Occupation and the Palace and, as in 1946, stood side by side with the British against the nationalists. Until the present day, the leadership of the Muslim Brothers has yet to issue an apology for the assassinations its members committed during and after the 1940s. Since the protests of 30 June that have returned the 25 January Revolution to its proper course, we have followed the Muslim Brotherhood’s blatant calls for aggression against the Egyptian state, national institutions and innocent citizens. In recent days, this incitement has led to illegal acts of violence and killings. We, the undersigned make an urgent plea for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated a terrorist organization because those who incite violence and murder deserve prosecution for their crimes.

Among the signers were prominent literary figures of different generations, all known for their active support of the 25 January Revolution, including: Bahaa Taher, Sonallah Ibrahim, Miral al-Tahawi, Hamdy El Gazzar, Mohamed Hashem, and Yasser Abel Latif. In the context of lead-up to the Rabaa massacres, massacres, it is difficult to read the document as anything but a permission slip to commit atrocities against Islamists.

Elliott Colla: “The Poetry of Revolt” in the New Egypt | Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

▻http://www.radioopensource.org/elliott-colla-the-poetry-of-revolt-in-the-new-egypt

This is a new generation, a generation of activists who are not ideological. In other words, they have looked at the struggles of their parents and even grandparents against imperialism, against capitalism, against all the “isms.” By and large, they are saying that’s not how they want to understand the world, and that’s not how they’re going to organize their response to the problems that they face. In this sense, many in the leadership have no ideological platform; they are starting their analysis and their project from how they live their daily life, what they see, what they experience, what they would rather have. …

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