Thursday, December 09, 2004

 
The Daily Chafing Dish(again)

Jonah and Sullivan both include a er, dhimmi quote from Amir Taheri today.:
"Right now there are 22 active conflicts across the globe in which Muslims are involved. Most Muslims have not even heard of most of them because those conflicts do not provide excuses for fomenting hatred against the United States. Next time you hear someone say the US was in trouble in the Muslim world because of Israel, remember that things may not be that simple." - Amir Taheri, in his latest column, "What If It's Not Israel They Loathe?"
"Unoriginal"? Check. Worthwhile repeating and uh, keeping warm? Check.
From Huntington's 1996 "THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE REMAKING OF WORLD ORDER":(p. 212) "...Nineteen of the twenty-eight fault line conflicts in the mid 1990s between Muslims and non-Muslims were between Muslims and Christians. Eleven were with Orthodox Christians and seven with adherents of Western Christianity in Africa and Southeast Asia. Only one of these violent or potentially violent conflicts, that between Croats and Bosnians, ocurred directly along the fault line between the West and Islam......Conflicts between the West and Islam thus focus less on territory than on broader intercivilizational issues such as weapons proliferation, human rights and democracy, control of oil, migration, Islamist terrorism, and Western intervention."
Now, for all I know(after 20 seconds or so of Googling)SH may have supported John Kerry in his bid for the Presidency. I don't recall him saying anything warm or fuzzy about the state of Israel.(OK so he's probably not too warm 'n fuzzy about much, if anything)His index has something like 17 entries for "Israel." And of course, Jews would continue to be a bugaboo for Muslims even if Israel ceased to exist.
Arguments that Islam and the West would make nice with each other if the "Palestinian problem were solved" are so fanciful, that SH
might not even bothered to answer them in his book.(granted, my memory is, sigh, far less than photographic.)