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To: Maximilian
"Even Horowitz himself would be unable to know how deeply he has been influenced by his Stalinist past, and how much of it continues to perdure in his intellectual approach to issues."

Why is that? Why is it that in order to be a critic one must assume that one knows the author better than he knows himself?

Frankly, I find the whole business of deconstructing motives to be a hinderance to the formation of any intellect at all.

26 posted on 06/16/2003 7:13:50 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Reactionary
"Why is it that in order to be a critic one must assume that one knows the author better than he knows himself? "

Perhaps because Schwartz doesn't know who he is himself. He is a neo-con (convert). A convert to Islam and a proclaimed "Jew-for-Allah.

"That was the end of the affair as far as Frontpagemag.com is concerned. It is not the end of the story, however. The piquant twist is that Stephen Schwartz is a convert to Islam. He is a self-avowed "Jew-for-Allah" who has taken to calling himself Suleyman Ahmad, but he keeps this significant fact concealed from his readers. Why? He provides the answer, too:

'Since accepting Islam, I have proceeded carefully in informing my friends, neighbours, co-workers, and others . . . I want to proceed in a way that will do the most for the welfare of the Ummah and for better relations between all believers in la ilaha illallah.'

Since "the welfare of the Ummah" is his main motive, everything is allowed, including lies and slanders. His attack on me was part-and-parcel of Schwartz's second motive: to demonize any opposition to jihad along Europe's eastern rim (Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Cyprus). "I speak Albanian and was involved with the KLA struggle almost from the beginning," he even boasts, forgetting that in view of the KLA'a distinguished record such admission may make Schwartz interesting to the office of the prosecutor at The Hague war crimes tribunal.

Schwartz's attempts to promote the "tolerant," Turkish variety of Islam, as opposed to the "bad" Wahhabist variety was comprehensively demolished by Andrew Bostom in National Review Online. . . ChroniclesMagazine, Serge Trifkovic

ONe could easily just come to the conclusion that Mr. Schwartz is one mixed up dude. Former Trotskyite, former Jew, former intellectual.

yitbos

55 posted on 06/17/2003 1:38:02 AM PDT by bruinbirdman (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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