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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Because I think they deserve to be repeated.
I've had these for a while, sitting in a file, forgotten. I can't recall exactly when they were taken, but I'm almost certain it was this past summer.
They were strangely absent from MSM coverage. Hmm.
I wonder how much of the inability to look that hatred in the face stems from some sort of class or subculture bubble. The Muslims that journalists know are more generally those with more western values and western education. Even if they work abroad in the ME, the people they will know are other journalists, government officials, businesspeople. They don't see those folks as dangerous, and in some ways - they aren't.
They think the chain is long from their pals to the nutcases, and so regard the whole matter as not so dangerous. As the educated can often put a softer spin on jihadist rhetoric (for their own conscience sake!), the fiction can be maintained that the US must address some mostly reasonable issues that Muslims are concerned with.
No one is kidding themselves more about this than the educated Muslims, who are thus better equipped to deceive journalists.
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I wonder how much of the inability to look that hatred in the face stems from some sort of class or subculture bubble. The Muslims that journalists know are more generally those with more western values and western education. Even if they work abroad in the ME, the people they will know are other journalists, government officials, businesspeople. They don't see those folks as dangerous, and in some ways - they aren't.
They think the chain is long from their pals to the nutcases, and so regard the whole matter as not so dangerous. As the educated can often put a softer spin on jihadist rhetoric (for their own conscience sake!), the fiction can be maintained that the US must address some mostly reasonable issues that Muslims are concerned with.
No one is kidding themselves more about this than the educated Muslims, who are thus better equipped to deceive journalists.
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