Truth-Teller Encounters the Buzz-Saw of the Establishment Narrative

What happens when someone dissents from the leftist establishment narrative in a way that is so compelling and convincing that the continued wide acceptance of that narrative is imperiled? What happens is that the leftist media establishment deploys its strongest rhetorical weapons against the offender, hoping to destroy or at least cripple the dissident before he or she is able to amass a significant following, or to dishearten and disperse that following if it already exists. This is why the April 2026 issue of Tablet magazine contains a massive article, over 6,000 words long, damning with faint praise the pioneering scholar of dhimmitude, Bat Ye’or.

Former New York Times writer Judith Miller, who for decades has been a reliable conduit for the establishment line, pulls out all the stops to ensure that her readers will come away with the idea that Bat Ye’or, for all her admirable qualities, is a bit of a nutter. It is a shabby way to treat one of the great thinkers of our age, and demonstrates how deeply threatened the academic left is in the face of the truths Bat Ye’or has uncovered.

Bat Ye’or is a 92-year-old independent scholar, born in Egypt. Her 1990s books, including The Dhimmi, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, and Islam and Dhimmitude, shed unprecedented light upon a previously neglected area of the study of Islam: dhimmitude, Islamic law’s institutionalized system of discrimination and persecution of unbelievers, primarily Jews and Christians.

Then in her equally groundbreaking 2005 book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye’or showed how and why Europe embarked upon the path that is now leading, as more and more people realize daily, to the destruction of its own civilization: the admittance of massive numbers of Muslim migrants without any expectation that they would ever assimilate ...

Within 20 years this type of coverage (media rhetoric) will be the basis for government approved euthanasia (mentally incapable).

Miller spent 12 weeks in jail rather than divulge her sources during the Valerie Plame leaks investigation.

This led to Scooter Libby going to prison instead of the actual leaker, Richard Armitage, who remained free.

Armitage's grandson, Iain, played young Sheldon Cooper on TV.

-PJ

Ridicule is a powerful weapon.

Judith Miller would do better to consider the Holodomor and direct her mockery at Walter Duranty and the New York Times.

I do remember all that.

Add to it that Miller had Jessica Tarlov’s voice before Jessica did.

Europe has been resisting Islam for centuries. The effects of that awful religion upon their nations is well known and documented. So why are its leaders committing national suicide? My theory: because they are being paid to do so. All that oil money has breathed life into a beast that was barely breathing. The people receiving that money are still committed to spreading that evil religion. So how to spread Islam when its efforts to do so with the sword have failed? Buy off the politicians and conquer by immigration invasion!

The rest of the Bat Ye'or keyword, sorted:

An Egyptian Jew in Exile: An Interview with Bat Ye'or [10/01/2011]
Delegitimizing the Jewish State [12/30/2010]
Which One God ? ( Comparing the Christian and Muslim Conceptions of God ). [12/04/2006]
Europe and the Ambiguities of Multiculturalism [11/08/2006]
The Twin Myths of Eurabia [07/24/2006]
Eurabia Scholars Gather in The Hague [02/20/2006]
"Eurabia" defined [11/15/2005]
The Arabization of Europe (Crapweasels hoist to a fare-thee-well on their own petards) [04/29/2005]
David Warren: Bowing to Islam? [04/27/2005]
And Dhimmitude For All [04/11/2005]
Triple-pronged Jihad - Military, Economic and Cultural. Bat Ye'or [Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis] [04/05/2005]
The Conquest of 'Eurabia': Author paints dark tale of a cowardly continent on the run. [04/03/2005]
The Civilization of Dhimmitude [03/26/2005]
The Emerging 'Eurabia' (Dhimmitude not optional) [02/18/2005]
Victor Davis Hanson: 'Response to Readership' 12/15/04 on Bat Ye'or and Eurabia [12/15/2004]
Arafat's Legacy for Europe (The condign dhimmitude of the Eurabian Crapweasels) [11/16/2004]
Eurabia (A FrontPage Magazine conversation with Bat Ye'or) [09/21/2004]
How Europe Became Eurabia [07/27/2004]
Beyond Munich -- The Spirit of Eurabia [07/02/2004]
Eurabia and Euro-Arab Antisemitism: Why Europe hates its Jews -- again. [04/05/2004]
European Fears of the Gathering Jihad [11/26/2003]
Bat Yeor: Eurabia, The road to Munich...[How Europe sold itself out in 70th thru Euro-Arab Dialogue] [11/13/2003]
Q: Where, then, did jihad originate? A: The ideology of jihad ....... [10/30/2002]
Eurabia. The road to Munich... (Europe and the Arabs and Muslims) [10/09/2002]

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