‘Orientalism’ For Dummies
The psychological disease that imagines that Western cultures are somehow better than Arabic or Eastern cultures.
The psychological disease that imagines that Western cultures are somehow better than Arabic or Eastern cultures.
This looks like a job for that amiable stomach-stapled beekeeper, CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper, whose unflagging commitment to the truth has earned him the affectionate and richly deserved nickname, “Honest Ibe.” Honest Ibe, call your office! It’s Islamophobia! It’s racism! It’s bigotry! Just imagine the outcry is counterterror officials in this…
In “What Did You Say About Muhammad?!” in Pajamas Media (via Middle East Forum), May 12, Raymond Ibrahim skewers more Islamic supremacist hypocrisy: Which is more likely to elicit an irate Muslim response: 1) public cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, or 2) public proclamations that Muhammad was a bisexual,…
Throwing bottles at the Israeli consulate in a protest that appears to be as orchestrated as the jihad flotilla itself. Do these protesters even know that the jihad flotilla participants were chanting an Arabic rhyme celebrating Muhammad’s massacre of the Jews at Khaybar? The whole thing was a set-up. Jihad…
Why must Maher El-Gohary and his daughter live in hiding, under serious daily threat of death? What crime have they committed? Obviously they have apostatized from Islam, and despite the willful ignorance of the American mainstream media and the deceptions of American Muslim advocacy groups, leaving Islam really does warrant…
Two Massachusetts Muslims are arrested in a raid, and the Governor of Massachusetts behaves as if Muslims were the victims, not the perpetrators, of jihad terrorism. Shouldn’t he be reassuring the Jewish community and other prime targets of jihad instead? “Deval Patrick vows support for Muslims,” by Marie Szaniszlo in…
Palestinian hate won’t be solved by what Obama wants to impose from above.
As Hugh Fitzgerald has often noted here, Islam is a vehicle for Arab supremacism. The centrality given to Arabic, such that prayers cannot be offered and the Qur’an not properly recited in any other language, has led historically to clashes between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, with the former having a…
On April 19 – Patriot’s Day – The New York Times ran a story about the new solicitude shown to Muslims in America by the Obama Administration. There were many things of importance left out of the story, and what was in the story was presented in such a way…
News item: “Scholar of Islamic thought to speak,” from the Ithaca Journal, April 11: The second Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture, “How the Muslims Saved Civilization: the Reception of Greek Learning in Arabic,” will be given by distinguished scholar of Islamic thought Peter Adamson, professor of ancient and medieval philosophy,…