Overskriften er et citat af Slavoj Zizek fra al-Jazeera, hvor han og Tariq Ramadan blev interviewet.
Jeg må give Agger ret. Det er bedre underholdning end x-factor.
Værten er nemlig lige så ukritisk overfor sine interview-ofre, som værtinden i x-factor er overfor de håbefulde sangere, så Slavoj Zizek får virkelig lejlighed til at rulle sin postmoderne revolutionære socialisme ud.
Værten spørger Zizek:
Was he implying that the Egyptians or the Arabs are not worthy of democracy?
Det er Tony Blairs bekymringer vedrørende Egyptens transition til demokrati, som værten her hentyder til, og Zizek svarer:
Well, of course he wouldn’t say this openly, publicly but I think his message – if one can read between the lines – was quite unambiguous. You know that wonderful French proverb:
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même [chose]. The more it changes the more it stays the same. So it’s obviously (sic) that what Western powers, in as far as they where represented by Tony Blair, what they want was some changes which would basically enable the global situation to remain the same.
Against this I would like to emphasize – once again agreeing with what Tariq [Ramadan] just said – one point:
You know how often in our multicultural era, where we all are suspicious about universalism, we like to hear how democracy – as we understand it – is something specifically Western, you should understand different cultures and so on and so on.
But what affected me tremendously when I was not only looking at the general picture of Cairo but listening to interviews with participant protestors was how deeply irrelevant all this multicultural talk becomes. There, where we are fighting a tyrant, we are all universalists. We are all immediately solidary (sic) with each other. That is how you build universal solidarity, not with some stupid UNESCO or multicultural respect. We respect your culture, you ours. It is the struggle for freedom.Here we have a direct proof:
- That freedom is universal and
- Especially a proof, that [it is a] cynical idea that Muslim crowds prefer some kind of religious fundamentalist dictatorship or whatever.
No! What happened in Tunisia what happens now in Egypt is precisely this universal revolution for dignity, human rights, economic justice. This is universalism at work.
What we see daily in Egypt – one – I have seen a protestor said: I am proud that I am Egyptian. I am proud for them. They gave us a lesson against these falsely respectful but basically racist prejudices – you know – Arabs have their specific culture, they cannot really get it. They got it. They understand democracy, by doing what they are doing what they are doing, better than we do in Western Europe with our anti-immigrant parties and so on and so on.
Revolutionsromantikeren Zizek overser belejligt lighederne med Iran i 1979, hvor den “universelle revolution” blev gennemført med de samme slagord.
There, where we are fighting a tyrant, we are all universalists. We are all immediately solidary (sic) with each other.
Men nogle er mindre universalistiske og mindre solidariske end andre.
Og i øvrigt voldtager muslimer deres egne børn.
