My name is Rachel Corrie

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Q-News, Issue 362
April 2005

Political pundits, like the vile Rod Liddle, go to great lengths to show that Muslims have developed a habit of making nasty, militant and unsavoury comments about the “kuffar”. Take a trip to some notable neo-con, right wing and Zionist websites - the friends of Liddle and his ilk, and you’ll find the bile spreads rather close to home.

Take for example the recent announcement that acclaimed British stage and film actor and director Alan Rickman, popular for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, is returning to the London stage to direct My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one woman play about the short life and sudden death of the 23 year-old American International Solidarity Movement (ISM) worker who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian home in 2003. The play developed with Katharine Viner and the Royal Court Theatre’s International Department will run from 7 April to 30 April at the Royal Court, www.royalcourttheare.com - look for more details in the next issue of Q-News.

On Israeli Forum, one reader described it as a, “play about the fundamental breakthrough/breakdown of a young angel’s political activist dreams and dilemmas as she learns the laws of physics while playing matador with a 2 ton [sic] bulldozer in order to protect terrorists and their tunnels.” He adds that it would probably be an all around “flat performance” and gave it “two palms up”. On right-wing blog Free Republic, readers called Corrie “road kill” and said she would be “flattened” by the attention. And on Washington Post endorsed neo-con site Little Green Footballs, Earl called the killing of Corrie “just culling the herd,” while Ed from Ohio, labelled her “St Pancake”. Now let’s hear the pundits call these online writers “nasty”, “militant”, “un-American”, “dishonourable”… oh, but we forgot, those terms are reserved only for Muslims and people of justice like Rachel Corrie.