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Published by BG on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 7:31 PM.Italics his, emphasis mine:
Glenn Greenwald - The Islamic enemy within - Salon
Right, and just so we're clear, they don't hate us because we take Muslim men off the street, throw them in secret prisons, beat the shit out of them, and never charge them with a crime. They hate us because of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
As always, a great read.
Glenn Greenwald - The Islamic enemy within - Salon
The frothing, drooling anti-Islamic hysteria that one finds from Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and right-wing blogs -- not to mention pandering, craven GOP presidential candidates -- is so unhinged and cartoon-like that there is a temptation not to take it seriously, to do nothing but mock it.
But there is something rather extraordinary taking place. Presidential candidates of the political party that has dominated our country for the last two decades are competing with each other to prove who will most aggressively embrace policies such as torture and indefinite detention well beyond even what the Bush administration has ushered in. And this is occurring in the midst of still new extraordinary emergency presidential powers, along with allowing the Bush administration's radical framework of presidential omnipotence, constructed over the last six years, to remain largely undisturbed. The tenor of our political discourse becomes increasingly unrecognizable -- mainstream presidential candidates openly and happily advocate torture and life imprisonment with no charges while the audience wildly cheers.
The U.S. already has at least 14,000 people held in detention around the world without charges of any kind -- the vast, vast majority of them Muslim, many of whom have been tortured. And yet, there is a sizable portion of the country -- and clearly large portions of the GOP base -- which believe we have been too restrained against our Islamic Enemy, that we need more torture and more detentions and still fewer restraints, that the principal failing of the Bush administration is that they have been too meek and too compromising when dealing with the Great Islamic Threat.
Right, and just so we're clear, they don't hate us because we take Muslim men off the street, throw them in secret prisons, beat the shit out of them, and never charge them with a crime. They hate us because of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy.
As always, a great read.
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