Orientalism is an academic term used by scholars in art, history,
literary, Theology, geography and cultural studies for the depiction
of Eastern that is( Oriental cultures), including Middle Eastern,
North African, South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. It is done by
writers, designers, and artists from the West. In some western
universities, these are called (Middle Eastern studies) or just
(Eastern Studies) for short. This definition of Orientalism is
actually taken from Wikipedia. There is another definition.
Orientalism is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates
and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to
that of Europe and the United States. It often involves seeing Arab
culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized and at times dangerous. Well,
at its inception, we must hold the cane from the middle. In other
words, we must be fair. I have always told my fellows who reside in
the west that you shouldn’t put all western people in one basket. Each
and every culture has different sapidities. In all cultures, there are
mild, moderate and radical individuals. One of my very close friends
is a mechanical engineer. He studied and worked in France. Prior to
that, he worked in Germany. France is a bit closer to the States in
its racial profiling, he said. Concerning Germany, he mentioned to me
quite positive and encouraging situations that he encountered with
people there. What he mentioned to me defies unworthy Arab stereotypes
about the west. So for instance, it refutes the stereotype of westerns
being unaccommodating and insensate. Well, quite the opposite, he told
me that people surrounded him treated him with recognised cordial and
hospitable disposal. It also defies the stereotype of western women
being so easy, voluptuous and daring. There are many of them who have
ethical motives and virtue. They have erubescent and girlie shyness.
He also mentioned to me situations that are sufficient to defy the
stereotype of us being constantly despised in the west. It is a proper
occasion to clarify my inimical stridence. Whom is it toward? It
essentially is intended to campaign against the (Alt Right Movement).
The best way to put it is to basically portray this in Trump’s camp.
It’s a right-wing southern white supremacy based movement. They
aggress against anyone who is different from them. They are intolerant
toward people with ethnic diversity. They often are misanthrope and
dysphemistic. Many people in the west are not in favour of this
hostile camp. I always make a significant difference between Europe
and the United States. Please be noticed, I do not compare here
between individuals in the States and Europe. I base my assessment and
comparison between two mass cultures. We can generically refer to
Europeans as mostly reasonable, edified and open-minded. However, many
Americans due to media dominance are largely disinformed, insulated
and quite prejudiced about other parts of the world, not just the
Middle East. This is why, American culture is quite marginalised. It
diminished in major ways. Europe is the ideal substitute in my humble
opinion. European nations are geographically closer to us. They have
long history in affiliation with our region, either during Crusades or
modern invasion. They learned a lot about us during neither era. This
is why I don’t think they will return to engage against us once again.
Of course, we won’t deny the existence of anti-Islam sentiment in many
parts of Europe. It is natural to see such variation. The difference
though, that the hostile camp in the States is quite active and
possibly influential through their mass media whilst in Europe, they
may not necessarily have this impact. In Europe, you may hear about
charges of committing hate crimes either by unbearable acts or through
abhorrent rhetoric. Well in the States, it’s unlikely to hear charges
of hate crimes against detestable southerners, for instance. There are
many key factors to critically differentiate between American and
European cultures. Whilst both are classified as westernly orientated,
there are major differences. First of which, is the social structure
of each side. Europe is more open to welcoming various minorities and
throughout its educational system, these cultures are smoothly
desegregated. In the American camp, there are many communities
inhabiting the same region. Nevertheless, they are constantly skeptic
and suspicious of each other. Most people in the States are obsessed
with watching movies whilst relaxing, eating and chatting on the
popular American comfy and cozy couch. They are sort of television
addicts. In contrast, Europeans like to read, regularly exercise and
they may not be as addicted to television as their American
counterparts. For these reasons and more, I recommend shifting our
focus to invest our interest with the European side. So Orientalism
like any academic discipline, has its pros and cons. Thomas Carlyle is
a prominent Scottish author and historian. He wrote about the French
revolution and he had very positive perspective concerning prophet
Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). There are many
orientalists who serve in this camp. Our role here is to collaborate
with them and produce a mutual work that is based on deferentially
scholastic approach. We also must allow a suitable room for worthwhile
scrutiny and criticism. The west isn’t held accountable for our
deplorable state of nescience here in the Middle East. We ought to
practically refine our education. I have read couple of textbooks on
Orientalism in Arabic. Well, they both deal with the subject from a
controversial standpoint. It essentially relies on the conspiratorial
theory. It studies and examines Orientalism as a tool of Colonialism.
It critically studies how Orientalists constantly portray Middle
Eastern cultures as strange, awkward and often threatening to western
liberty. Thus, it justifies western expeditions to Muslim lands. The
United States uses Orientally prejudiced notions to justify its
position from the Muslim world. If you listen to how American
prominent figures speak, you will recognise their plain indulgence
with slanted Orientalism. Islam is tactically expended to terrify and
jeopardise lay Americans. The business of insistently demonising and
prejudiciously depicting Muslims as radical terrorists, murderers,
plotters and fundamentally fanatics is the norm in America. The
portrayal of the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as
philanderer and paedophile makes us fathom the vicious American
version of Orientalism. It is essentially based on obscene and
terrifically salacious portrayals. The latter however, is a common
characteristic of American society. The United States is filled with
many social disintegrations, often pertained to misbehavior and sexual
scandals. There are numerous incidents of incestuous affiliation
reported in their courts which left the subject of intimacy quite sick
and bizarre. Therefore, they equated prophet Muhammad (peace and
blessings be upon him) to the most horrible practice they ever
noticed. This taste of Oriental literature is not the only one. There
is another version which is classified as the relatively impartial
side. It somewhat portrays the moderate approach. It studies Islamic
culture for the purpose of recognising interdependencies. It often
avoids engaging in provocative subjects. It may not be as active as we
would like but, it fairly exists. Nevertheless, the prepossessing
approach is more likely to be affective due to predominantly vast
American dominance. As hellion Donald Trump once uttered in one of his
despicable rallies, Americanism is not Globalism. Therefore, we ought
to really be careful, there are substantial attempts to Americanise
even western cultures. This is why I said to my friends living in
Europe, that we need to tenaciously unite to confront this
manipulating threat which attempts to deviously dominate us. It
essentially relies on racially disparaging remarks, bigotry and
detrimentally xenophobic sentiment. The United States is quite popular
for issuing visas to fibbers. They issue visas to people whom they
like to hear their plainly counterfeit chronicles about being
supposedly, ex Muslims. I on multiple occasions asked U.S pastors to
openly confront me on that regard. Until this moment, they never wrote
me back and they probably won’t. I would like to ask people who work
for U.S embassies a straight question that demands a direct and
denotative answer. If someone caught indictable of being mendacious or
unclear about his past, as if he said he was Muslim and he wasn’t or,
he lied about some of his credit contingents, would you issue this
person a visa? Please, yes or no. I
specifically address Americans who like to incorrectly assume us
popping off to immigrate to their country, your presumption isn’t
correct. I am not particularly desperate about obtaining your visa nor
residing in your country legally or illegally. It may be challenging
economically here at home but, I’d better find somewhere else to
settle dignifiedly. The United States is impeached of substantially
secernating ethnicities based on racial disparity. That has been
proven repeatedly through the last couple of years. American
Orientalism is held accountable for this chaotic disarray. American
Orientalism is the chief shamed of religious uncertainty. There are
many people who tend to ramble between various isms purposelessly.
Religion is disapproved in the United States despite insignificant
proclamations of being allegedly a Christian nation. What are we to
commend or repudiate about this state of iniquity. This is a nation
which carries an evangelical banner. Nevertheless, it has officially
accredited same sex marriage as licit in all States. I have discussed
this subject with many Christian devotees therein. Many of them
thought it couldn’t be delt with whilst others gave credit to
separating faith and civil affairs. This is a decisive evident of how
paradoxical the United States is. American Orientalism is often
expatiated to odiously parallel between Jihad and terrorism. This is
why we ought to embrace a scrupulously countering scheme. My role here
is to establish solid ground for scrutiny, preferably with European
academe. It confidently has been proved to be theologically impartial,
far from either explicit hostility or disingenuous flattery. As I
mentioned earlier in this piece of composition, they are casually
expected to fairly dissent with some of what we assert but, they are
highly competent to do so in prestigiously academic manner. The rising
tide of Islamophobia visible in mainstream political circles and
reflected in the media leaves the Muslim community intemperately
susceptible to confront major threats. Racist and Islamophobic
rhetoric has already translated into violent and deadly incidents
across the States, with further armed threats directed at Muslim
institutions and individuals now almost a daily occurrence. These
incidents are deliberately unnoticed. We need a greater, more
sustained response that both examines the roots of Islamophobia and
provides the empirical data to quantify the problem. Only then, we can
develop the tools required to educate policymakers and civil society
on how best to counter this longstanding crisis. Christian and secular
orientalists of the United States are injurious of repulsively
aspersing Islam with enormous ignominy and detrimental disparagement.
The deficiency of renowned let alone ordinary edification is the chief
cause for the rise of such insolence. There might be some Americans
who treat the subject objectively. Most of them, however, are unevenly
indoctrinated. I’ll repeat this statement, if Americans weren’t easy
to fool, someone like Donald Trump would have not been nominated for
Republican candidature in the first place. Despite his unambiguously
inflammatory remarks, he is endorsed and broadly embraced across their
country. Despite his appallingly intolerable sentiment which is
immensely offensive to each and everyone, he is continuously seconded.
Despite his constantly contradicting and simultaneously assaultive
statements, he hasn’t even been expelled from the presidential race.
Donald Trump is eminently embraced in spite of his incredible
disqualifications because he says what most Americans like to hear.
Donald Trump is tremendously disqualified, yet he is the beseeming
president for who lay Americans are. If you want to look at actual
Americans, just look at Trump’s spirit. You don’t have to exhaust
yourselves with engaging in pretension of counterfeit diplomacy, we
recognise what American manner is. I don’t think I’ll ever commit the
mistake of believing my enemy. American Orientalism is the one to
describe as imbecile, disinforming and extraordinarily ignominious in
the slightest.
