An essay in imperial villain-making
"Through their pens - blissfully unencumbered by any knowledge of the Muslim world - the old colonial idea of the Islamic ruler as the decadent, destructive, degenerate Oriental despot lives on and, as before, it is effortlessly projected on a credulous public by western warmongers in order to justify their own imperial projects.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1490682,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1490682,00.html
From Information Clearing House
Starmail - 25. Mai, 11:37