Richard Serra - Literal

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sulmanes esclavizan a niños pequeños? “Ella vive en Occidente”, protestan. ¿Será porque vivo en Canadá que trabajadores cristianos humanitarios son asesinados en lugares como Saudi Arabia? En pocas palabras, ¿si yo desapareciera de la escena, estas exhibiciones de violencia religiosa desaparecerían mágicamente? ¿En verdad tengo ese poder? Los primeros disidentes en el Islam surgieron hace menos de cien años después de que la religión fue establecida. Estos disidentes eran hombres, árabes y heterosexuales. Aun así ¡fueron acusados de ser sobornados por los judíos! Mi punto es que, cuando la gente no quiere enfrentar los hechos buscará cualquier arma de distracción masiva. No me engañan estas tácticas y tampoco a los musulmanes que escriben para darme apoyo. 10 4 L ITERAL. LATIN AMERICAN VOICES • FALL, 2007 “She is a lesbian,” they huff. Is because I am a lesbian that in Mali and Mauritania, little boys are hustled into slavery by Muslims? “She lives in the West,” they protest. Is it because I live in Canada that Christian humanitarian workers are shot point-blank in places like Saudi Arabia? In short, if I exited the scene, would these and other displays of religious violence magically disappear? Do I really have all that power? The fi rst dissidents in Islam emerged less than a hundred years after the religion was established. These dissidents were male, Arab and heterosexual. Yet they were still accused of being in the pay of the Jews! My point is, when people do not want to confront the facts, they will reach for any weapon of mass distraction. I am not fooled by these tactics and neither are the many Muslims writing to me in support. Turkey. Pen box with hinged inkwell, inscribed with a prayer in the form of the tugra and the phrase “He [God] is” (huwa). c. 1850 Steel overlaid with silver and gold.Private Collection
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