Di Mila Ghorayeb. Originale: The Misguided Exceptionalism of US-Israeli Relations, del 28 febbraio 2019. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. Quando qualcuno parla di Islam o di stati a maggioranza musulmana sento che qualcosa non torna. Non che l’argomento sia del tutto sbagliato; è più l’espressione. Sono luoghi comuni come “barbarico” e “selvaggio” che, comprensibilmente,…

I used to hear people talk about Islam or Muslim-majority states and sense that something was not right. It wasn’t that everything people were saying was necessarily wrong, but it was about how they said it. Namely, it was that the tropes they used, such as “barbaric” and “savage,” could understandably be seen as distasteful….