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Sep 27th, 2003, 04:38 PM
Yes we Westerners are so much more civilized and 'humanitarian' than those dirty, lying Arabs, and their intractable 'Arab minds'. This time, we have the imperial thing down the right way, of course. Moral equivalency? Equivalency in turpitude, perhaps.
And, political polemics aside, it always strikes me how few people who criticize his literary theory stuff have actually read any of it. As far as his memoirs are concerned, there are various rebuttals available online (by Said, others, even one by Hitchens!).
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