DECONSTRUCTION OF 'DECONSTRUCTION'

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Bismi`lllâh

There are two constants in the current global debates on religion, which are both in a serious relation with what we can call the women's' issues. We will list them together with their sub-constants:
1. That under the term religion 'is implied what is mutually shared as such by Abraham's religions',
1a) and while doing so only one of the members, i.e. Islâm, is being constantly given the terroristic tokens;
2. That the 'deconstruction of religion', within a new science the 'Gender studies', is necessary in the process of contemporary liberation of woman,

2a) as that deconstruction is primarily focused on Islâm, i.e. its followers.

TOMAHAWKTHEATRE, GUANTANAMO BLUES

But alas! How unreliable constants! While articulating her outcry, the author of this essay (or authoress, if one prefers so!), expresses by it at the same time her regret for, due to limited time and space of this review*, having not a chance of their broader and comparative explanation. She will rather, instead of it, and with the same limitations constantly in mind, talk about the above 'constants' and 'sub-constants', which are both scientifically, politically, and media in, only from the standpoint of Islâm, with which they are, after all, particularly concerned.

Therefore, alas! Because, although generously admitted into Abraham's family of religions, both, Islâm, that is, the texts on It, are being still printed from the ancient stereotypes. Its own almost hysterical media and political actuality, It still owes, not to a better knowledge of Itself, which would necessarily reveal the historical role of Islâm, i.e. the Qur'ân, as a completion and synthesis of all previous Revelations, but to the resurrected crusades’ mantra 1 , imprinting it into the consciousness and subconscious of the contemporaries as a generator of fear and horror, before anything.

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If things would not have been as such, then there would be heard, from within circle of Abraham family, today louder than ever, a whole chorus of voices, requiring that once and for all from political, media, and every other dictionaries be thrown out such unreasonable phrases as 'Islamic terrorism' and 'Islamic terrorists'. Because, if the above mantra is entirely logically proceded, then it necessarily implies the Abraham genetic code as terroristic. Namely, there is a logical suspicion that in DNA of all other members of that monotheistic family, is possible to be found the same type of disorder, with which is being charged, ever since its appearance in the history, only its youngest member.

To this logical conclusion, would, no doubt, first hysterically react today's political geneticists (either from Bush's, either from Bin-Laden's clan) of the terroristic image of Islâm, before which picture even the author of these lines is often chilled. Sharing her anxiety with millions of her co-believers around the world, because the geneticists, obviously, do not have a bit of good intentions.

But the goal of our essay goes beyond politological and psychological proportions of the above slogans, although, for reasons that are more than obvious, cannot, neither for a moment, get away from them. Let's go back, therefore, to the first of the above two in political, media, scientific . . . topics. And this from the 'sexist' angle, imposed on us by the theme and concept of this publication. Your author (or authoress!) will speak about it, however, wholly manly. That means, by bringing a specific topic - Women and Religion - to the level of principle, to which is s/he so 'unwomanly' loyal.

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May sound almost like anecdote, but even as such, the narrative has serious connotations. Namely, upon the remark by a Serbian intellectual: "Do you know that Orthodoxy is older than Islâm," this authoress promptly responded with her counter-question: 'Do you know that elementary school is older than doctorate?'

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