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Islam Apologist Apologises For Islam: Film at 11!

“What we are witnessing today has little to do with Western democratic values and everything to do with a European media that reflects and plays to an increasingly xenophobic and Islamophobic society,” wrote John Esposito, who teaches Middle East studies at Georgetown University. ~Jim Lobe, Antiwar.com I expect the likes of the Islam-enabling John Esposito […]

“What we are witnessing today has little to do with Western democratic values and everything to do with a European media that reflects and plays to an increasingly xenophobic and Islamophobic society,” wrote John Esposito, who teaches Middle East studies at Georgetown University. ~Jim Lobe, Antiwar.com

I expect the likes of the Islam-enabling John Esposito to say ridiculous things like this, but I would expect more from Jim Lobe than to accept this as a serious observation. Arguably, Mr. Lobe is reporting different perspectives and not necessarily accepting any of them, but when the structure of, “Neocon says A, anyone else says B,” we can be pretty sure that Mr. Lobe intends to endorse position B. In the case of the cartoons, the neocons are accidentally right–not because they particularly care about free speech, but because their desire to invade the Near East repeatedly requires them to stoke the home fires with the right kind of rhetoric. If opposing free speech and Europeans’ way of life were a better route to encouraging more wars in the Near East, they would be the first in line.

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