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<DIV>[My man Raimondo on the new "Anti-Semitism" -- i.e.
anti-Arab/Semitic/Muslim/Islam.-- DP]</DIV>
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<DIV>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 <I><A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859842844/antiwarbookstore/">No
One Left To Lie To</A></I>, as well as a much-discussed (and little-read) tirade
against Mother Theresa, Hitchens is the resident Deep Thinker at <I>Vanity
Fair</I>, 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. <A
href="http://www.thenation.com/special/20010911exchange.mhtml">In a debate with
Noam Chomsky in <I>The Nation</I></A>, 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….</DIV>
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<P align=left>In <A href="http://www.andrewsullivan.com/">his increasingly
dreary "weblog,"</A> 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, <I>he </I>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.</P>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html">http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html</A></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>