Ontem escrevi en passant sobre os conflitos internos sobre os rumos das civilizações e sobre as forças de manutenção cultural tendem a se valer de leis draconianas para artificialmente coibir a força natural pela mudança que existe em qualquer agrupamento humano e como a comparação (facilitada pela migração e tecnologia) entre civilizações pode ser uma força importante.
Um exemplo, extremo desse fenômeno é a punição administrada ao blogueiro saudita Raif Badawi, 1.000 chibatadas. Acredito que nem a mais relativista das almas consegue não se escandalizar diante das 1.000 chibatadas.
O The Guardian fez uma boa seleção de citações do blog (hoje encerrado, obviamente) de Badawi destaco algumas, que são analises sobre a realidade de seu país e de sua ‘civilização’.
Sobre liberdade de expressão e inovação:
As soon as a thinker starts to reveal his ideas, you will find hundreds of fatwas that accused him of being an infidel just because he had the courage to discuss some sacred topics. I’m really worried that Arab thinkers will migrate in search of fresh air and to escape the sword of the religious authorities.
Secularismo:
Secularism respects everyone and does not offend anyone ... Secularism ... is the practical solution to lift countries (including ours) out of the third world and into the first world.
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I’m not in support of the Israeli occupation of any Arab country, but at the same time I do not want to replace Israel by a religious state ... whose main concern would be spreading the culture of death and ignorance among its people when we need modernisation and hope. States based on religious ideology ... have nothing except the fear of God and an inability to face up to life. Look at what had happened after the European peoples succeeded in removing the clergy from public life and restricting them to their churches. They built up human beings and (promoted) enlightenment, creativity and rebellion. States which are based on religion confine their people in the circle of faith and fear.
Sobre o terrorismo de inspiração islâmico:
What hurts me most as a citizen of the area which exported those terrorists ... is the audacity of Muslims in New York that reaches the limits of insolence, not taking any regard of the thousands of victims who perished on that fateful day or their families. What increases my pain is this [Islamist] chauvinist arrogance which claims that innocent blood, shed by barbarian, brutal minds under the slogan “Allahu Akbar”, means nothing compared to the act of building an Islamic mosque whose mission will be to ... spawn new terrorists ... Suppose we put ourselves in the place of American citizens. Would we accept that a Christian or Jew assaults us in our own house and then build a church or synagogue in the same area of the attack? I doubt it. We reject the building of churches in Saudi Arabia, not having been assaulted by anyone. Then what would you think if those who wanted to build a church are the same people who stormed the sanctity of our land? Finally, we should not hide that fact that Muslims in Saudi Arabia not only disrespect the beliefs of others, but also charge them with infidelity to the extent that they consider anyone who is not Muslim an infidel, and, within their own narrow definitions, they consider non-Hanbali [the Saudi school of Islam] Muslims as apostates. How can we be such people and build ... normal relations with six billion humans, four and a half billion of whom do not believe in Islam.
As mil chibatadas em Badawi são um drama humanitário e uma história tristemente exemplar sobre os conflitos internos nas civilizações e nos lembram uma vez mais como é incompleta a explicação do terrorismo e autoritarismo somente pela luta de civilizações, ou como culpa do imperialismo “ianque” (como gostam de dizer).
Não entendam esse texto como uma apologia de uma pretensa superioridade do ocidente que seria o exemplo máximo, por que no seio do ocidente os mesmos temas estão presente e causam acalorados debates, mas é aí que reside o ponto, não é mesmo? Afinal, é contra um debate amplo com alternativas múltiplas que se insurgem os radicais, claro que dão nomes como ocidentalização e infiéis, por que como sabemos palavras além de sua carga semântica, carregam uma forte carga emocional.
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