음.. 나는 처음부터 급격히 곡선이 곤두박칠 치기 시작했던 듯.
사실 아침시간 자체가 매우 위태로운 시간이고 대학원에서의 시간도 단 한순간 맘이 편하지 않았으니.

오늘 TA 수업시간에 파키스탄 출신 강사가 학생들에게 보여준 뮤직비디오다. 보여준 이유는 지하드를 찬양하는 이슬람세력이 글로벌 미디어등을 이용해서 활발히 활동하고 있다는 "경각심" 혹은 "문제제기"를 하고자 했던 것인데, 아이들은 조금 충격을 받았던 듯.

몇명의 학생들이 표현의 자유에 대해서 이야기했고, 사실상 미국도 이와 반대되는 이미지를 생산해 내고 있으니 똑같은 거 아닌가 하는 지적도 나왔다.

이후에 지속된 초청강사 브라언의 강의 중 덴마크에서 시작된 이슬람 카툰에 대한  논쟁은 흥미로웠는데, 그 카툰 논쟁 속에서 서구의 자유주의적 담론이 봉착하게된 윤리적 문제에 대한 물음은 매우 신선한 것이었다. 
표현의 자유와 종교적 모욕이라는 폭력성이 교차하는 담론 구조에서, 그 교차 지형의 윤곽을 그려내고, 새로운 윤리적 논리를 도출해 내고자 하는 노력은 그 자체로써 의미가 있었다.

특별히 기억나는 것 중에 하나는, 브라이이언의 고통에 대한 문제 제기.
좋은 고통과 나쁜 고통이라는 두가지 분기점이 항상 만들어진다는 점을 윤리적으로 강조한 부분이다. 
예를들어 의학적 시술에 뒤따르는 고통을 감내하는 사람들과 그것의 수사적 가치를 전유하는 현실 정치와의 관계에대한 분석은 무척 흥미로왔다. 
하지만 다른 한편에서 생각해보면, "마취"와 "안정제"등등 고통을 잊게 하거나 감내 할 수있는 다양한 노력들이 여전히 계속되고 있는 것 아닌가?
몸에 기록되는 고통의 흔적들이야 말로 살아있음을, 혹은 살아왔음을 확증하는 것 일텐데.
예수도 사실 십자가에 못 박힌 전력에다가 그 고통의 극한에서 "순교"를 택한 이미지 때문에 먹어주는 것일 테고..

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아래는 옵저버에 실린 노래 Dirty Kuffar 에 관한 기사다..


 Islamic rappers' message of terror


Antony Barnett Sunday February 8, 2004 The Observer

Islamic rappers' message of terror Antony Barnett Sunday February 8, 2004 The Observer It's rap, jihad-style. A music video with blood-curdling images, fronted by a young British Muslim rapper brandishing a gun and a Koran is the latest hit in radical Islamic circles. The rap song is called 'Dirty Kuffar' - Arabic for dirty non-believer - and it praises Osama bin Laden and the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. The video has recently been posted on the British website run by the Islamic extremist Mohammed al-Massari, the UK-based Saudi Arabian dissident who has lived in Britain since 1994. Al-Massari claims that the video has been selling in large quantities at mosques to the younger generation and is in heavy demand overseas.

The rapper fronting the video calls himself Sheikh Terra and the Soul Salah Crew - a take on the rap group So Solid Crew. 'Salah' is Arabic for faith.

The video might at first be mistaken for an Ali G spoof, but the violent images quickly reveal it is no joke.

The song starts with images of US marines in Iraq cheering as one of them shoots a wounded Iraqi lying on the floor. At the end of the video, it features shots of the hijacked planes flying into the Twin Towers with sounds of the rappers laughing. There is then a list of 56 countries they claim have been the 'victims of American aggression' since 1945.

The four-minute rap is essentially a repeated diatribe against the 'dirty non-believers' Tony Blair and George Bush, urging listeners to 'throw them on the fire'.

One of the most brutal images shows a jihadist fighter in Chechnya riddling a captured Russian soldier with a Kalashnikov. Another image labels Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf a traitor and shows photographs of Colin Powell and Condeleezza Rice with the words 'still slaves' superimposed across their bodies.

Labour MP Andrew Dismore said he was 'disgusted' by the video and is to refer it to the Home Office and ask the police to investigate if any offence has been committed.

Dismore said: 'These extremist are using music and video to prey on young and impressionable Muslim boys in order to attract them to their brand of lunacy and entice them to commit acts of terror. It is inexcusable.'

The website on which the video was originally posted is run by the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia, a group run by al-Massari who came to Britain in 1994 after being imprisoned by the Saudi regime.

He said: 'A boy came to me and showed me the video and I thought the content was good, although I am no expert on rap. I thought it was an excellent attempt to use modern methods to get a message across.'

Al-Massari did not see a problem in using Western music and MTV-like images to sell a message of jihad. He said that it was an effective way of attracting young Muslims who had been put off by other Islamic sects such as the Taliban, which banned music and dancing. 'I do not know of any young Muslim who has not either seen or got this video. It is selling everywhere. Everyone I meet at the mosque is asking for it.'

Al-Massari denied that the messages in the video incited Muslims to take part in terrorist attacks against the West.

He said: 'I believe the lyrics are only metaphorical. It is not like this is a fatwa.'

In November 2002, al-Massari circulated a 4,000-word message allegedly from Osama bin Laden. In 2001, al-Massari was granted permanent residence in Britain, five years after Michael Howard, then Conservative Home Secretary, tried to deport him.

Excerpt from 'Dirty Kuffar'
Peace to Hamas and the Hizbollah
OBL [bin-Laden] pulled me like a shiny star
Like the way we destroyed them two towers ha-ha
The minister Tony Blair, there my dirty Kuffar
The one Mr Bush, there my dirty Kuffar...
Throw them on the fire