{"id":16,"date":"2014-11-01T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-11-01T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T02:21:07","slug":"umbrella-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/2014\/11\/01\/umbrella-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Umbrella of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/files\/2014\/11\/20141031_212948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/files\/2014\/11\/20141031_212948-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"20141031_212948\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/files\/2014\/11\/20141031_212948-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/files\/2014\/11\/20141031_212948-1024x897.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;Umbrella of Islam&#8221; is one of the most commonly used terms in Sudan to describe governmental actions. In Persepolis, we were given insight into the Islamic revolution in Iran . The book told stories of horrible actions committed by the new Islamic regime against it&#8217;s people. Sadly, this idea of an oppressive, Islamic government is not unique to Iran. It is very common in the Arab world. In Sudan, we witness atrocities being committed on a daily basis by our government falsely under the name of Islam. That is why I chose to paint an umbrella (with the word Islam written on it). The umbrella basically provides shade for and covers a rifle and grenade (to represent war), an unbalanced balance of justice (to represent injustice and the forgone rights of the people), a fat man wearing a &#8220;jalabiya&#8221; (traditional Sudanese dress) carrying a bag of money next to a skeleton (to represent theft by government officials from the sudanese citizens who are starving because they cannot afford to live) and the word &#8220;Shuhada&#8217;a&#8221; in Arabic (to represent the martyrs that die in pointless wars started by the government in the name of islam). Another aspect to this piece is the newspaper I painted it on. The news paper is written in English to represent western media that shows a biased view of Islam. Thus another interpretation of the piece is the idea that media negatively portrays these horrible things as being part of Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;Umbrella of Islam&#8221; is one of the most commonly used terms in Sudan to describe governmental actions. In Persepolis, we were given insight into the Islamic revolution in Iran . The book told stories of horrible actions committed by the new Islamic regime against it&#8217;s people. Sadly, this idea of an oppressive, Islamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shahdtagelsir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}