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  • "Creatures Out Of The Dark Ages Have Come Marching Into The Present..."

    02/12/2003 8:09:07 AM PST · by BurkesLaw · 26 replies · 800+ views
    The Iconoclast ^ | February 12, 2003 | Stephen Rittenberg
    The latest murderous rantings by Osama bin Laden, broadcast courtesy of advanced Western technology, made me wonder about what new apologetics for Islamo-fascist killers we can now expect from our chattering literary class. As the war on Islamofascism intensifies, growing numbers of playwrights and novelists loudly tell us the primary danger we face is not Islamo-Fascism, and not murderous tyrants like Saddam, nor the alliance between the two; rather it is George W. Bush and Western imperialism, and Israel, that constitute the main dangers. Why do verbally gifted and creative individuals lend themselves to this sort of idiocy? Why do...