Response to Rodni E. Chalet
Reader comment on item: A Prof [Hamid Dabashi] Tangles the Truth

Submitted by Scott Ryan (United States), Apr 5, 2005 at 10:11

I wonder if you are writing satire here. If so, then hats off to you, as it was VERY funny. If not, then thank you, as you have more than proved my point with your overheated rhetoric ("organized network of fanatical and radical Zionist sympathizers"), and failure to address the substance of Dr. Pipes' article.

Again, criticism is always "slanderous and racist" when it comes from the Right. However, guys like Edward Said get a free pass with their apologias for Islamist extremism and thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

Scott Ryan.

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