Jihad's True Face or pompous professors who preach nonsense
On Bill Kristol's Jihad's True Face at NYTimes
Mr.Kristol,
Thank you, sir. You don't know how deeply this piece is appreciated.
As an Indian, as someone who frequently travels to the US and who is an unapologetic admirer of her, as someone whose dear one escaped alive due to blind luck, my rage at the opinion pieces in American newspapers and metablogs cannot be quantified.
First of all, the biggest shock has been how little these people actually know, but they still consider themselves and are indeed considered 'experts'. I can picture them sitting in their new england enclaves and sneering at the lack of sophistication of the third world common folk while not realizing how their own words imply a complete inability to look beyond their own cultural cocoon and indeed to their lack of scholarship. It seems tenure is even easier nowadays.
Apologies if that sounded like a rant, though I mean every word of it.
Some points.
1. In Dallas airport, I once happened to be the only non-white face. The imposing brother standing there decided that the brown me should be the only one who walks through a spanking new body scanner from GE. I didn't even notice this fact till I saw a middle aged (and still strikingly pretty) white woman complaining as to why I was seemingly 'profiled'. The assumption that being asked to go through a scanner was offensive to me seemed laughable. Maybe I should do some research as to why I should have been offended and be prepared for it next time. Though maybe I'll just wear a t-shirt which says 'Agnostic - Don't care for God, can't kill for him'
2. There can no more be any compromise with confronting and defeating radical, political Islam in the ideological sphere. The ten kids who killed with blind rage were again victims as were the innocents who got killed. The best commentary, incidentally was by an Australian cricket writer and was capped off with a memorable phrase - 'killing with the blind rage that the sinister aged can so easily create in the idealistic young.'. What is so shocking is that easy as it is , I mean, it something more stupid that going back to Caliphate?, no one seems to want to do it for seeming to be politically incorrect.
regards,
Jay
s'thing I wrote - http://thinkndmuse.blogspot.com...
— Jay, Bangalore, India
