A number of commentators are emerging as the chief ideologues of the new anti-Arab anti-Semitism: there's Christopher Hitchens, who coined the term "Islamo-fascism," although he doesn't draw this analogy to its logical anti-Islamist conclusion. The author of No One Left To Lie To, as well as a much-discussed (and little-read) tirade against Mother Theresa, Hitchens is the resident Deep Thinker at Vanity Fair, the literary embodiment of a dying breed: the leftist glitteratti. His post-Marxist pretensions are tolerated because he almost always signs on to the latest crusade of his ruling class masters. In a debate with Noam Chomsky in The Nation, Hitchens manages to extol the Muslims of Bosnia - whose crimes, he claims, were less onerous than those of their Christian opponents - while descrying "fascism with an Islamic face." That this felicitous phrase succinctly describes the state of Kosovo under the rule of his friends in the KLA is an irony of which Hitchens seems honestly unaware, but at least he is entertaining. Andrew Sullivan, on the other hand, is merely foam-flecked.. In his increasingly dreary "weblog," Sullivan delights in quoting the most absurd snippets from Arab newspapers and then holding them up as somehow emblematic of Islam per se: of course, if someone shows a snippet of, say, the Gay Pride Parade, with a drag queen and a leather "daddy" leading the semi-naked throng, Sullivan is predictably outraged, although the proportional strength of leather daddies in the gay community is arguably higher than the percentage of Bin Ladenites in the Muslim world. Bullies come to the fore in wartime, and, for once, he gets to play the bully, and clearly relishes the opportunity: "Is it un-Islamic to kill women and children?" asked a subhead. Sullivan's answer: probably not. Other examples of the inherent evil of all things Muslim abound in his interminable weblog, which has become a daily compendium of anti-Muslim hate.
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