Sind
religiöse Gefühle heute wichtiger als Meinungsfreiheit? Ein Entscheid
des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte, der eine wegen
Herabwürdigung des Propheten Mohammed verhängte Busse bestätigte, sollte
zu denken geben – umso mehr, als islamistische Kreise es im Internet
feiern.
Even with a misogynist predator-in-chief, we will not be silenced
Eve Ensler, THE GUARDIAN, August 24, 2017
20 years after The Vagina Monologues, I’d like to say that feminists
have won. But patriarchy is a virus and we are in the midst of a massive
outbreak.
The
first time I ever performed The Vagina Monologues, I was sure somebody
would shoot me. It might be hard to believe, but at that time, 20 years
ago, no one said the word vagina. Not in schools. Not on TV. Not even at
the gynaecologist. When mothers bathed their daughters, they referred
to their vaginas as “pookis” or “poochis” or “down there”. So when I
stood on stage in a tiny theatre in downtown Manhattan to deliver the
monologues I had written about vaginas – after interviewing over 200
women – it felt as if I were pushing through an invisible barrier, and
breaching a very deep taboo.
Presently it is still possible to express "alternative" views about facts, and not only approved, alternative facts, as the "misogynist predator-in-chief" wants to have it. For how long? The deep fascism and racism of the North American society in the US becomes more and more a danger. The first pussy-grabber and his followers, primitive men, were always around. But economic and political successes disguised and masked this fact, this ugly truth about the Leader-Nation. We all should wake up and oppose this scum, this hatred and warmongering.
The situation is as
ridiculous as many of the ironies in his celebrated books. But alas, it is not
magic realism, but quite the reality, the furore over Salman Rushdie’s proposed
visit to India
to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. To some extent, it’s one of those
contrived controversies in a season where no other story is competing for
eyeballs.
The mullah brigade has made its usual statements about the writer not being
allowed to set foot on Indian soil. The TV channels have a great talking point:
there are some themes that can always be debated. For 24 years, ever since Satanic
Verses invited the wrath of Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, and was
subsequently banned in many countries, including India, Salman Rushdie is always
ready material for controversy.
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What the Moslems or Islamists undertake in India equals protests in the West against their own enemies: in Germany against Sarrazin, in Austria against Right wingers who assemble for a dancing ball, in other EU-countries against this or that person who is outside of the main stream.
Arabischer Frühling: Ägyptens Frauen - die großen Verliererinnen Seite an Seite mit den Männern kämpften Ägyptens Frauen für Demokratie – von der Macht aber bleiben sie weitgehend ausgeschlossen. Martin Gehlen, Der Tagesspiegel, 14.1.2012
