Saturday, August 25, 2018

Dare I disagree?



Dare I agree with the only negative reviewer here? Spencer's book "Arab Winter Comes to America" really does sound like a rehash of (almost everything) he has said before, including in booklets freely available at his website. The book is also badly edited (at one point calling the SPLC "the Southern Policy Law Center"), and says very little about the Arab Spring, despite the title and editorial review.

Otherwise, my problem with Spencer is the usual one. For whatever reason, he never follows the trail back to pre-9/11 days. At least not in his recent books (I haven't read his entire corpus). Instead, there's too much Obama-bashing, no doubt because of Spencer's right-wing political convictions. Yes, the Obama administration does seem heavily infested by supporters of the "moderate Islamist" Muslim Brotherhood, but what about the heavy intelligence failures surrounding 9/11 and the entire pre-history of U.S. collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan? If this doesn't fit the strict Islamophilia-Islamophobia narrative, so be it. Maybe it fits some other narrative, equally damning to all factions of the American establishment...

Both major parties in the United States were in on it!

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