Cut, because of TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic abuse, violence, threats of harm, misogyny.
Harry Potter star 'beaten after meeting non-Muslim man'
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GODDAMNIT, MUSLIM MEN. D:<
ETA: Wait, hang on, this news report was dated mid-2010 this year. Oh, wait... has this come up before? >_>;;
META: I just saw a whole slew of comments calling me out on tarring Muslim men out with the same brush.
Okay, that’s a fair interpretation of what the original post says. And it isn’t immediately clear from the context that I’m a Muslim man, and I’m more frustrated and angry at the level of privilege seen by Messr. Azad’s statements & actions, rather than expressing some kind of anti-Muslim prejudice.
I really apologize for not making it clear that I was frustrated and angry at seeing what both these men did to their family member, not only as fathers and brothers but as Muslim men. Men who are in the position of familial and community power, who belong to a religion that constantly tells the whole world that they are a peace-loving religion, that their principles of justice and equality are universal, and yet violate these principles when dealing with members of their own community.
And I speak this as a dominant-culture Muslim male living in a country that privileges my needs over the needs of people of other religions, genders and orientation, and treats those who question or attempt to move beyond such a broken paradigm as munafiqs and ignorant.
If you thought I was being Islamophobic and unfair towards all Muslim men in general, frankly, I don’t blame you, because after a second reading of this article, yes, it does sound Islamophobic. So I’d like to apologize about that, and I hope the context I provide here compensates for that pretty massive FAIL on my part.