Egyptian Sandmonkey Takes Exception To TIME's Embrace Of Tariq Ramadan
As far as we know, Rantings of a Sandmonkey is the only site on our blogroll with an editor who actually believes that there's an Israeli-Palestinian "cycle of violence". Posts like his commentary on TIME giving Tariq Ramadan an editorial are more than enough to recommend him despite this (albeit significant) ideological misstep:
They have him write a piece on the Pope's visit to Turkey and how he is the dark, and lot's of bullshit like that. Oh, I am sorry, does it show that I dislike the man the MB consider as their own Edward Saeed? Apologies all around. It must be because I know that his father, Hani Ramadan, is the reason for the creation of the global MB structure and the guy who convinced the saudis to start exporting wahhabisim all over the world. Or maybe because Traiq Ramadan is a hack whose PHD in Islam proposal was such a pile of shit that got rejected, which prompted him to write his magnum opus Islamophobia, and accused his Islamic professors of being islamophobic of all freakin things, which of course made them cave, cause they are european pussies, and can not possibly tolerate being-even wrongly- labeled intolerant of anyone for their religion. And now Islamophobia is the term de-jour for anyone who critisizes anything at all in Islam or muslim behavior. That is, of course, unless you are a muslim yourself, which is why apparently I can do it! But yeah, him and his father are both assholes and are one of the main reasons why we are in the shit we are in right now. But does anyone really care, or pay attention? Noooo! After all, the man has a PHD, and invented the new "anti-semitism". We must give him some credit and respect for that! Right?
In fairness to TIME, it's still not as bad as when the Washington Post allowed Hamas arch-terrorist Ismail Haniyeh to obfuscate / justify his genocidal ideology in their pages. Close though.
Previously: Rantings of a Sandmonkey On Moving the Ramses II Statue Out of Cairo, Egyptian Women's Magazines Are Ironic, Tariq Ramadan Makes His Contribution To Benedict Controversy
