My Words Mangled by Leftists and Islamists - A Bibliography

What is it about Leftists and Islamists that they cannot read straight? Is it the influence of post-modernism or plain old shoddy habits? In any case, I – like so many conservatives – find myself consistently having my words or my intent distorted and having to correct the record.

I have brought together dozens of such instances at a weblog entry titled "Department of Corrections (of Others' Factual Mistakes about Me)." In addition, I wrote up some of the particularly colorful and demonstrably distorted cases in a listing that will be updated as needed (and needed, sadly, it will be needed):

• "Newsweek's "Periscope" Gets It Wrong." Daniel Pipes Blog, September 27, 2004.

• "The Japanese Internment, CAIR, and Me," Daniel Pipes Blog, December 28, 2004.

• "[The Canadian Islamic Congress:] An Islamist Apology." The New York Sun, July 19, 2005

• "'A Corrective to the Pipes Worldview'." History News Network, August 29, 2005.

• "Those Danish Cartoons and Me." The New York Sun, February 21, 2006.

• "Is Campus Watch Part of a Conspiracy? [On Mearsheimer-Walt and The Israeli Lobby]." FrontPageMagazine.com, May 12, 2006.

• "Is Tariq Ramadan Lying [about Magdi Allam]?" FrontPageMagazine.com, March 5, 2007.

• "CAIR's Dirty Tricks against Me." FrontPageMagazine.com, September 7, 2007.

• "The Problem with Middle East Studies: A Microscopic Investigation." History News Network, July 14, 2008.

• "I Win Apologies, Retractions, and Corrections." Daniel Pipes Blog, September 17, 2008.

• "The National Jewish Democratic Council and Me." Daniel Pipes Blog, June 26, 2009.

Comment: There is no parallel here. I know of no Leftist or Islamist who has or could compile such a listing of egregious mistakes.

(November 30, 2009)

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