Wall Street Journal slimes Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore — forgets about George W. Bush’s monumental
blunders
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/17/wall_street_journal_slimes_noam_chomsky_michael_moore_forgets_about_george_w_bushs_monumental_blunders/
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In an article titled “Islam and the Radical West” published in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens raises the important issue of the radicalization of Western Muslims. But as far as responsible and informed journalism goes, the piece’s credibility ends there. Stephens goes on to make a number of stereotypical and weakly supported claims regarding Islam while taking amateurish pot shots at some of America’s most important thinkers, including Noam Chomsky.
Although Stephens does not have the temerity to make the statement outright, he essentially tries to label Chomsky and many in the U.S. media terrorists. This might be a popular argument amongst those who find the free press an annoyance, but for those who value Enlightenment ideals it is nonsense. Moreover, attempts to smear the great political revolutionary Frantz Fanon without giving a smidgen of context regarding the legacy of brutal colonial rule in Africa that Fanon resisted are consistent with the dangerous American tradition of ignoring history. In this sense it would be safe to say that Stephens has much more in common with the imperial administrators who would silence a Fanon than an American journalist upholding the First Amendment.
Stephens’ attempt to link Moore with Islamic terrorism is sophomoric at best. The fact that he thinks about this “chat” with the Muslim men “whenever the subject of Islamist radicalization comes up” is either a lie or the product of willful ignorance concerning U.S. and European history. Astonishingly, Stephens attempts to connect Chomsky and Fanon and a “news diet heavy with reports of perfidy by American or British or Israeli soldiers” to influencing the “mind-set of jihadists.” Bringing delusion to a new level, Stephens opines, “If Islamism is their ideological drug of choice, the political orthodoxies of the modern left are their gateway to it.”
Perhaps Stephens was absent that day in high school when European and American imperialism were covered. Any thinking person with a rudimentary understanding of the British Empire, U.S. actions in South America and South Asia (not to mention slavery and the destruction of Native Americans), the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, and Belgian atrocities in the Congo that left 10 million dead, certainly does not need Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore to “radicalize” them. In fact, if citizens – Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist – are not appalled by simply opening a European or U.S. History text, something is seriously wrong with humanity.
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Murdoch trash - as usual!
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Noams been called out...He must be just asceered all to quivers now
Choamsky will eat this fucking idiot alive.
IF he feels like this fool is even worthy of his attention. I'm going to go with 'Probably Not.'.
