In our latest instalment of Theo Van Gogh Memorial Fortnight, we re-release Chapter 6 of my book PAX ARABICA where I expose the “Arab World” for the colonial entity it is. It is available to purchase both on Amazon and for paid susbcribers of Guerre and Shalom.
“On Arab Apartheid” is by far the shortest chapter of the book, but it is all the more powerful because of it. It reminds the reader why we write in memory of Theo Van Gogh. It isn’t because we are against Muslims. Quite the contrary. We want them to succeed and flourish like the rest of us. Yet the architecture of an ethnic-religious culture that is immune to criticism leads to inevitable oppression —most of all of its women.
Today we stand in solidarity with them. - Daniel Clarke-Serret (Editor, Guerre and Shalom. Author, Pax Arabica.)
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
My studies at Aix-en-Provence university are somewhat of a blur; the intricacies of the French penal code having long deserted me. But away from the faculty at Avenue Robert Schuman, I learnt something of immense value, both in terms of personal development and political disposition. For what I discovered on the well-dressed streets off Cours Mirabeau will live with me forever; I gained an unforgettable - and heartbreaking - insight into Arab society.
