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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Apparently the latest in the Newsweek mess is an effort to decide who's at fault: crazy Muslims or lousy reporters?
Let's split the difference and say both!
Try this on for size: US efforts to win the hearts and minds of the Islamic world are stymied by the willingness of people who stone their daughters for having premarital sex or who graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism to believe anything that casts America in an unfavorable light.
The problem with the crazy Muslim bit, though, is this: What's it say about all the "religion of peace" babble we heard a while back? Here's a not so funny joke:
Q: When's it okay to call a Muslim a loony towelhead?
A: When he takes Michael Isikoff seriously.
posted by gbarto at 6:48 PM
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