The YewNork Times sometimes surprises me. I began to peruse a reprint from its Op-Ed page about the mass-murder Islamist Major Hasan, and expected to be treated to a carefully crafted explanation of why the good Major was a victim of our prejudices, why the murdered victims were actually at fault, and why he should be released to begin his book tour before Oprah calls it quits.
But this time, I was surprised. Thomas Friedman treats us to a thoughtful essay on just how totally poisonous radical Islam is, and how the Kool-Aid is distributed.
The Narrative is the cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America that have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11. Propagated by jihadist Web sites, mosque preachers, Arab intellectuals, satellite news stations and books — and tacitly endorsed by some Arab regimes — this narrative posits that America has declared war on Islam, as part of a grand “American-Crusader-Zionist conspiracy” to keep Muslims down.
In other words, the Narrative is B.S.
Major Hasan bought it hook, line, and sinker. Did absolutely everyone who worked with this whack-job day in and out simply not pick up on the fact that he was troubled?
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