re: #135 Surabaya Stew

Which is ironic, because Muslim Arabs tend to have low opinions of their non-Arab co-religionists. To see the Malaysian government islamists show such deference to the “santicity” of the Arab language is very strange indeed.

Irshad Manji refers to it as ‘foundationalism’—the belief that Arab culture and language and issues take precedence in Islam because they had the founder.

Actually used it to her advantage once—a student Muslim group was unitedly against her as a Muslim lesbian, right up to the point where one of the Arab kids opened his mouth about how South Asians and Malaysians et al weren’t real Muslims. Loyalties shifted fast.