When Islamists Seethe

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 8:27 pm PDT • Views: 469

I think this is intended to be insulting, but Abukar Arman mangles his metaphors so badly I can’t be sure: When the Politics of Polarization Prevails: Islamophobia and the Specter of Neo-McCarthyism.

Again we see that the cognitive dissonance induced by the secretive name “Little Green Footballs” has tied an Islamist in knots. The truth is far stranger than they could ever imagine, of course.

Arman was so enraged at being exposed that he took the trouble to have this op-ed published in several Middle East media sources—and he seems especially peeved at Patrick Poole:

Unlike the Middle East Forum which is operated by Daniel Pipes, a man many regard as the Islamophobe par excellence, Front Page Magazine, founded by David Horowitz, a man who is no stranger to controversy, does not pretend to foster any analytical objectivity when it comes to Muslims and Islam.

In his own description, his on-line magazine is dedicated to fighting one particular brand of terrorism; you guessed it, “Islamic terrorism.”

However, both Horowitz and Pipes are considered as “experts” in a network of Islamophobes made of individuals, think tanks, lobby and media groups whose primary goal is to marginalize Muslims and kick these “Little Green Footballs (LGFs)” out of the orbit of influence. [LGF is also the most popular website that the network has]

Coincidently, in a span of less than a month, Front Page Magazine has dedicated three or so articles aimed to smear this writer and activist’s name along with other Muslims of good community standing. All three vicious diatribes were authored by the same man, Patrick Poole- an obscure character who apparently specializes in maligning Muslims and Islamic organizations.

And in the hyperbolic nature of his argument and paranoia-driven logic that he employs, Poole sounds as someone inspired by Paul Sperry’s propaganda book ‘Infiltration’ in which he claims that the LGFs have been infiltrating their way up to the White House and that it is incumbent upon the good guys to stop them.

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 Frank says:

Let's just admit that public education is mediocre at best.