RACISM AND MUSLIM INFORMANTS IN EUROPE AND USA

Abstract

This paper contains the observations of Hamid Dabashi about recodication of racism in North America and Western Europe, recodication based on the fundamental mistake of logic by which certain criminal activities of a group of Muslims were taken for definitive, undeniable, absolute truths about Islam as a world religion. As a consequence, the brown ones became blacks, and Muslims became Jews. America never entered its post-racial phase, as it seemed to be the case after the election of Barack Hussein Obama for US President; despite all the short-term transformations, racism remains an American- European constant. This recodication was enabled by dangerous, pathological phenomenon of the “local informant”, ex-Muslim who writes and acts against Islam and Muslims for the sake of corrupted, criminal, quasi-enlightenment goals. Against them stand incorruptible intellectuals who oppose power and who are therefore doomed to exile.