Shit Extra Hard on Arabs and Muslims Month
In Defense of Rashid Khalidi
Besides the obvious point that the Rashid Khalidi-Obama connection is a complete non-story, it also reeks of the ugliness of political desperation: hate-mongering. Arab-bashing, to borrow liberally from the saying about anti-Semitism, is the ideology of scoundrels. How easily talking heads readily assume that professor Rashid Khalidi is an anti-Semite because he criticizes Israel. This [...]
Consequences of Political Quietism
As big Tuesday approaches in less than a week’s time, I am reminded of two traits exhibited by both candidates and a majority of the voting population that might keep me away from a polling station on November 4th: 1. Cowardice Bravery lies in a field buried where the fog of status quo, from the [...]
Poor Barack Obama
For all of five seconds this morning, today’s Democracy Now gave its listeners something truly substantial to think about when one of their guests, Isabel MacDonald from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), uttered the following: “All the American press can talk about is the fact that Obama is being smeared, not about the fact [...]
“Muslim” right up there with “war criminal”
Woot! Shit Extra Hard on Arabs and Muslims Month continues! The lead story on CNN right now is equating the muslim slur with the war criminal charge. “You’ve probably heard the rumors: “Barack Obama is a Muslim.” “John McCain confessed to being a war criminal.” The false rumors, spread by the Internet, have been forcefully [...]
Campbell Brown: Some of my best friends are Arabs and Muslims
Campbell Brown has written her latest commentary just in time for Shit Extra Hard on Arabs and Muslims Month. Of course, Campbell Brown probably didn’t mean to contribute and she may never know that she did. But add her latest piece, “So what if Obama were a Muslim or an Arab?” to the growing collection [...]
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