I'm responding to a recent Daniel Pipes
article not because he's worth replying to, but because he is such a transparently ethnocentric and Islamophobic fool (and an influential one) that anything that I can do to out him as such is surely time well-spent.
Wasting no time for the demonization game to begin, he claims that Palestinians "have established a worldwide reputation not just for relying heavily on suicide murder but for doing so enthusiastically." In fact, he can hardly contain himself in his orgiastic effusions on the exceptionally evil nature of "Palestinian Arabs" (as opposed to Palestinian Africans?):
No other press and school system indoctrinates children to become suicide murderers. No other people holds joyous wakes for dead suicide bombers. No other parents hope their children will blow themselves up. None other receives lavish endorsement and funding for terrorism from the authorities. Nor has another people produced a leader so inextricably tied to terrorism as was Yasser Arafat, nor so bountifully devoted its allegiance to him.Strangely, in the annals of human history, Pipes can find no leader "so inextricably tied to terrorism" as Arafat, whose "terrorism" apparently surpasses that of such luminaries as Hitler, Stalin, and Reagan (and yes, those names do deserve to be mentioned together). Perhaps most sadly, Pipes' inexplicable Arab hate fests aren't just for WASPy U.S. neocons - the article is available in no less than 8 other languages. Prepare to be propagandized,
Slovak-speakers!
On Pipes'
blog, he
reports Europe as being "under siege" by, amongst others, these most nefarious of groups - "asylum-seekers" and "refugees." If only those brown people could stop slaughtering each other, then Mr. Pipes' Anglo-Saxon brethren could rest easy at night, safe from the fleeing hordes invading Europe's soft underbelly. Cue Mr. Pipes' approval for the West's endangered white minority as it valiantly "protects its patrimony." (Curiously, attempts by Palestinians to protect Palestine's "patrimony" are looked upon less favorably by Pipes).
The only thing left to say is that the Wall Street Journal has dubbed him "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East."