Posted on 01/01/2008 5:01:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A professor of anthropology calls for a million Mogadishus, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science tells a girl she isn't a Semite because her eyes are green, and a professor of Persian hails the destruction of the World Trade Center as the castrating of a double phallus. The most recent tenured addition to this rogues' gallery is to be an anthropologist, the principal thrust of whose magnum opus is the suggestion that archaeology in Israel is a sort of con game meant to persuade the unwary that Jews lived there in antiquity... from Columbia... Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism... dealt with the 18th and 19th centuries, for the most part, but the Arabs were not the political player in the region then... Millions of Christian Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Serbs, and Armenians labored under Ottoman misrule too. The first four broke away, but the Armenian homeland was in Anatolia itself. So in 1915, during World War I, the Turks decided upon genocide, and carried it out. Said did not mention the Armenians even once in his book, for it would have made his passive, victimized Islamic world look rather less passive and not at all the victim. It is a glaring omission. Said's book was properly dismissed by many prominent reviewers as amateurish and dishonest -- though on other grounds. They did not even notice the Turkish and Armenian aspect. The book might have been consigned to well-deserved oblivion. But a year after its publication, revolution erupted in Iran. And Orientalism would become the guidebook and intellectual primer for a new wave of "anti-imperialism."
(Excerpt) Read more at dafka.org ...
Landmark Exhibition at Israel MuseumThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents Looking for Owners: Custody, Research, and Restitution of Art Stolen in France during World War II, an exhibition tracing the story of works of art looted by Nazi forces in France during the Second World War. Organized by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture and Communication, in collaboration with the Israel Museum, this landmark exhibition draws from the collection of works of art in France known as Musees Nationaux Recuperation (MNR).
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December 31, 2007
On view from February 19 through June 3, 2008, Looking for Owners brings together more than fifty paintings to explore the complex history behind the MNR holdings, with specific focus on the progress over the last ten years in tracing rightful ownership. The exhibition features the work of major European artists, including Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Claude Monet, and Georges Seurat.
Approximately 60,000 objects that were taken from France and brought to Germany during World War II, either through looting or commercial transactions, were repatriated to France after the war. Of these, 2,000 objects that could not be restituted due to a lack of clear ownership history or because they had not been looted, were given in custody to the French National Museums.
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They did not even notice the Turkish and Armenian aspect.
The most sickeningly deranged aspect of all this is that Academia still insists on a mythical “gentle peaceful Co-existence” among Muslim Jews and Christians - during the Ottoman and Spanish oppression.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
read Andrew Bottom’s essays-—very important!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/10/turkey_back_to_the_future.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/10/ottoman_dhimmitude.html
The Burning Tigris by Balakian is also pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060198400
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They did not even notice the Turkish and Armenian aspect.Actually, the snip I used referred to Said's failure to talk about the Armenians.
For the historically inclined, the process really began in the "Red decade" of the 1930s. As M. Stanton Evans points out in his magnificent book about Joe McCarthy, "Blacklisted by History," one of the architects of the process was Willi Munzenberg whom Evans describes as a "famous impresario of deception."
Munzenberg dedicated himself to promoting the Soviet interest in America. "We must penetrate every conceivable milieu, get hold of artists and professors, make use of cinema and theaters, and spread abroad the doctrine that Russia is prepared to sacrifice everything for peace." He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Much of the campus activism we see today consists of chameleon-like make-overs of the same Marxist-Leninist goals.
NO kidding...I realize that...I was simply generalizing to most agendized orientalists like those of Said’s ilk and other historians who would rather not bring up the genocides of Christians in Asia Minor/Turkey as well as other regions of Islamic conquest.
Thanks for posting this.
That was my point.
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