[JC85]

Let's see...what we have here is a political ideology that evokes a mythical golden age and exalts a rabid nationalism.

If only we had a word for this.

[JC85]

Reminds me of this piece:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040804135444/http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/workshops/musexpl.asp

Before Columbus, there were—or so we are told— natives in the Americas who amazingly spoke Arabic.