Comments on: Jack Bauer in Kabul? http://washingtonindependent.com/46606/jack-bauer-in-kabul National News in Context Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:33:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Spencer Ackerman http://washingtonindependent.com/46606/jack-bauer-in-kabul/comment-page-1#comment-34731 Spencer Ackerman Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:31:06 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46606#comment-34731 Thanks for the informed observations. I have to say I was mostly taken aback by the idea of broadcasting 24 in Kabul in general, but your point is well taken. Thanks for the informed observations. I have to say I was mostly taken aback by the idea of broadcasting 24 in Kabul in general, but your point is well taken.

]]> By: KevinNC http://washingtonindependent.com/46606/jack-bauer-in-kabul/comment-page-1#comment-34730 KevinNC Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:06:44 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46606#comment-34730 Hello Mr. Ackerman,<br><br>I read WI almost hourly. Congrats on a job well done. I thought it interesting that you were quite so surprised that Afghans would let torture scenes against Muslims slide as long as they weren't Afghan. I am an ethnographer of several minority Muslim populations in Asia, and I can report that this same sentiment prevails among most non-urbanite populations in China and South Asia...though the picture is changing a bit with the sustained idiocy of US policy that can be viewed as offensive to justice. Sooner or later this challenge to basic justice was bound to be appropriated by ordinary Muslims as targeted at them...though this is, as I say, not as prevalent as we tend to imagine. The divisions within and between Muslim countries have tended to trump the common challenges to a generalized Islam. It IS a weird anecdote, but it is also a revelatory reminder that our own popular imaginary about Muslims and Asia seems to sustain a significant mystified understanding of them and that area. <br><br>KC<br>Washington DC & Cambridge MA Hello Mr. Ackerman,

I read WI almost hourly. Congrats on a job well done. I thought it interesting that you were quite so surprised that Afghans would let torture scenes against Muslims slide as long as they weren't Afghan. I am an ethnographer of several minority Muslim populations in Asia, and I can report that this same sentiment prevails among most non-urbanite populations in China and South Asia…though the picture is changing a bit with the sustained idiocy of US policy that can be viewed as offensive to justice. Sooner or later this challenge to basic justice was bound to be appropriated by ordinary Muslims as targeted at them…though this is, as I say, not as prevalent as we tend to imagine. The divisions within and between Muslim countries have tended to trump the common challenges to a generalized Islam. It IS a weird anecdote, but it is also a revelatory reminder that our own popular imaginary about Muslims and Asia seems to sustain a significant mystified understanding of them and that area.

KC
Washington DC & Cambridge MA

]]> By: Spencer Ackerman http://washingtonindependent.com/46606/jack-bauer-in-kabul/comment-page-1#comment-33422 Spencer Ackerman Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:31:06 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46606#comment-33422 Thanks for the informed observations. I have to say I was mostly taken aback by the idea of broadcasting 24 in Kabul in general, but your point is well taken. Thanks for the informed observations. I have to say I was mostly taken aback by the idea of broadcasting 24 in Kabul in general, but your point is well taken.

]]> By: KevinNC http://washingtonindependent.com/46606/jack-bauer-in-kabul/comment-page-1#comment-33409 KevinNC Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:06:44 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46606#comment-33409 Hello Mr. Ackerman,<br><br>I read WI almost hourly. Congrats on a job well done. I thought it interesting that you were quite so surprised that Afghans would let torture scenes against Muslims slide as long as they weren't Afghan. I am an ethnographer of several minority Muslim populations in Asia, and I can report that this same sentiment prevails among most non-urbanite populations in China and South Asia...though the picture is changing a bit with the sustained idiocy of US policy that can be viewed as offensive to justice. Sooner or later this challenge to basic justice was bound to be appropriated by ordinary Muslims as targeted at them...though this is, as I say, not as prevalent as we tend to imagine. The divisions within and between Muslim countries have tended to trump the common challenges to a generalized Islam. It IS a weird anecdote, but it is also a revelatory reminder that our own popular imaginary about Muslims and Asia seems to sustain a significant mystified understanding of them and that area. <br><br>KC<br>Washington DC & Cambridge MA Hello Mr. Ackerman,

I read WI almost hourly. Congrats on a job well done. I thought it interesting that you were quite so surprised that Afghans would let torture scenes against Muslims slide as long as they weren't Afghan. I am an ethnographer of several minority Muslim populations in Asia, and I can report that this same sentiment prevails among most non-urbanite populations in China and South Asia…though the picture is changing a bit with the sustained idiocy of US policy that can be viewed as offensive to justice. Sooner or later this challenge to basic justice was bound to be appropriated by ordinary Muslims as targeted at them…though this is, as I say, not as prevalent as we tend to imagine. The divisions within and between Muslim countries have tended to trump the common challenges to a generalized Islam. It IS a weird anecdote, but it is also a revelatory reminder that our own popular imaginary about Muslims and Asia seems to sustain a significant mystified understanding of them and that area.

KC
Washington DC & Cambridge MA

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