#tamerlan

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En fait ça a déjà commencé,

In case you missed Nick Kristof’s round of bigotry this morning, that’s what screenshots are for: ▻https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/325671255766355968/photo/1

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, hmm? ▻http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/04/a_name_to_live_up_to.html

“If Dzhokhar seems to have been a relatively well-adjusted kid, the elder, Tamerlan—who is named for a Muslim Mongol warrior—clearly had more trouble.” ▻http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112971/boston-marathon-bombers-brothers-chechnya-forged-america#

As the world’s attention levels on the Tsarnaev brothers, a question is bubbling up—was the older brother named after a vicious warlord? By Eliza Shapiro ▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/is-tamerlan-tsarnaev-named-after-a-brutal-warlord.html

Avec une excellente mise au point ici :

Josh Shahryar - Tamerlan and Tamerlan : American Journalism Gone Nuts
▻http://sjoshs.tumblr.com/post/48461442278/tamerlan-and-tamerlan-american-journalism-gone-nuts

I have encountered many Temurs and Tamers and Tamerlans in my lifetime. The motivation behind their names is probably not their parents’ love of history or the myth of conquerers and such. Here’s why.

My first name is Suleiman. That’s Arabic for the Biblical Solomon. My grandma didn’t name me Suleiman because she had any love for Jewish religious figures, but because she’d had a son named Suleiman who’d died young. Now don’t go conjecturing that I’m single because I’m waiting for an Ethiopian beauty to lure me with her wisdom!

I was named Suleiman because generally people name people after other people they’ve known or met or seen who have the same name.

Historical figures as names is nothing new and not restricted to my culture and I’m pretty certain in Chechen culture as well. Amir Temur just happens to be a famous conquerer of the past who controlled large swaths of south, central and west Asia. He’s become part of our daily lives.

Heck, in Uzbekistan, he’s revered as their founding father. That’s the same country Herman Cain tried to Ubeki beki beki.

Naming children after historical figures is part of American culture as well. Though not every George was named after Washington nor every Thomas after Jefferson. And hey, even if you want to name your kid after a fruit, so what?

To jump to such outlandish conclusions like this is simply bizarre. And its especially bizarre coming from journalists in a country whose capital district and female personification are named after a monstrous figure who is responsible for starting the genocide of Native Americans.

Lire le Tamerlan des Coeurs d’Obaldia. Beaucoup plus drôle, bcp. plus beau.

Puisqu’on parle de la Syrie en ce moment : la conquête de la Syrie par Tamerlan

تيمورلنك في سورية
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2409

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Merci @kassem pour les liens. J’aime bien le texte de Josh Shahryar quand il décrit l’image différente que les gens se font de Tamerlan dans l’orient et l’occident.
Quant aux autres je dois dire qu’on est loin de la légèreté des textes de cabaret « années vingt » qui construisaient leur pointes d’humour à partir de sources « exotiques » et se moquaient des attentes prévisibles de du public nocturne. De nos jours on ne rit pas. On affiche une attitude pédagogique et manipulatrice à la fois.
Bon, en attendant les dernières nouvelles sur ▻http://www.theonion.com je retourne écouter les chansons de Rudolf Nelson et Kurt Tucholsky, c’est plus marrant.