A Detailed Response to a Brain-Washed Marine

I just finished reading Who Wants to "Rule All the World"?: Response to an Angry Marine, by Gary Leupp, a professor of history at Tufts University. It's a well-formulated, fact-based and detailed response to two letters from an intellectually challenged Marine Gunnery Sergeant whom the Islamophobes have managed to play like a flute. As is to be expected, this man is not only painfully misinformed about Islam, but grotesquely biased in his analysis.

Professor Leupp does a great job of exposing the ignorance and double-standards which the letters present. Some of his more commendable and welcomed comments include:

“Recall by the way how the Nazis accused the Jews of trying to control the world and Germany. Do you see no resemblance between such charges and your statements about Muslims trying to ‘rule all the world’ and ‘rule over all’ America?”

“These days those who stereotype Muslims and essentialize Islam not only don't know what they're talking about but are vilifying and dehumanizing others in order to justify more war.”

Please take the time to read Who Wants to "Rule All the World"?: Response to an Angry Marine and forward the link to everyone you know who's also mired in Islamophia and the myopic double-standards and simple-minded bigotry that it produces—or is it the other way around? Needless to say, such intellectual Neanderthals are easy targets, but they—due to their activities in the public domain that are often intended to produce change in government policies as well as popular opinion—bring it upon themselves...

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