http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/marty-peretz-and-anti-muslim.html
Marty Peretz and anti-Muslim stereotypes
Marty Peretz's new blog, "Spine," is basically a museum for every anti-Arab/Muslim stereotype and caricature that exists. Each day, one can read about how primitive, violent, deceitful and generally horrible Arab Muslims are. Peretz's blog has revealed that he is basically a glorified (though otherwise quite standard) LGF commenter who happens to own a magazine.
Peretz's latest complaint about Arab Muslims is of the strain commonly voiced by Pat Buchanan and VDARE about Latinos -- namely, that the primitive peoples are reproducing like rabbits and are overwhelming the better educated classes (what Kieran Healy described as: "someone's always worried that group x are breeding like flies"). Specifically, Peretz claims that Muslims are having large families because they're uneducated and thus don't understand that small families are superior and necessary for a family to be "truly loving" (emphasis added):
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An even casual review of Peretz's blog reflects that (like LGF) he has almost no interest whatsoever in any topic other than the Middle East, and specifically in the project of demonizing Arabs and Muslims. Hurling these sorts of fact-free, bigoted insults towards "Muslims" is the staple of his blog and, apparently, of his world-view.
There are plenty of people who advocate aggressive and militaristic policies in the Middle East who are not motivated by this sort of bottom-scraping hostility, but there are many, many people like Peretz who seem driven by anti-Muslim animus and little else. For that group, American military action need not make geopolitical sense as long as it entails lots of bombs dropping on the right countries and the right people.
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam