Friday, December 14, 2007
Martin Amis and his Islamism satire
I shall have to get the new issue of Granta and read Martin Amis' latest assault on Islam - or Islamism, if we are to be accurate: it's the fundamentalists he doesn't like, he says. The magazine has published a draft of his satire titled The Unknown Unknown which is sure to re-invigorate his critics, such as university colleague Prof Terry Eagleton who has accused him of Islamophobia. The story is about a Muslim terrorist called Ayed who plans to unleash rapists on Greeley, Colorado, in order to infect the good folks with syphilis. His perfect woman looks like a "matt-black postbox" though he has a sharp eye for Western women, noting a "thin skirt rendered transparent by a low sun", suggestive of a bit of hypocritical cock quivering. Yes, I shall read this so-called satire with great interest and await the anti-Amis threats of a fatwa.
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Irony may yet be Amis' undoing, which would be ironic.
How do you satirise that which is already abominable?
Yes, I expect he will cock it up. Do you remember "The Age of Horrorism"? Sterling proof that the Amis/Islam seam is neither rich nor inexhaustible.
Ah, yes, The Age of Horrorism. Amis wrote: "Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction and sentimentality are good excuses." Total crap, but I like his novels (still).
<< Total crap >>
Why ? It's just the classical statement of a bona fide atheist.
<< but I like his novels (still). >>
I haven't read them yet, but I do intend to. I've heard some good and some bad about his "Yellow Dog". Something tells me you wouldn't appreciate this one... for "professional" reasons. :-)
Atheism is a faith-based religion with its own messiahs, scripture, worship procedurals etc.
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