Thursday 3 April 2014

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The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror – reviewRobin Yassin-Kassab:
I am not surprised that the Guardian cut the last paragraph of my review, because it's aimed at them:
" “The Muslims are Coming” should be widely read, particularly by those liberals who consider their own positions unassailable. “Neoconservatism invented the terror war,” Kundnani writes, “but Obama liberalism normalised it, at which point, mainstream journalists stopped asking questions.” He could go further to examine the new Islamophobia of sections of the left, the notion that US imperialism and ‘al-Qa’ida’ are in league to destabilise imagined ‘secular’, ‘resistance’ regimes. Those who defended Iraqi Islamists in the Blair years now point to the Allahu Akbar chant as evidence of an agenda far more benighted than that of the genocidal neo-liberal dictatorships."

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