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“Isn’t it only appropriate that the Persians are the ones who have kicked the Arab culture out first? Indonesia will be next. Too much money to be made by adopting the West.”

I like that you are decrying a delimited, geographically-distinct culture, “Arab culture,” instead of the expansive, unquantifiable demographic, “Muslims.”

More and more folks are discarding the old “it’s the Moozies” convention. Could this be a sign that the burqa is finally slipping off of the Baathist/Arab Socialist/Nasserite proxy-project?

With a lot of paid help from media (here I include academe; recall that Juan Cole and Edward Said are both overpaid talking heads with political scripts, just like Keith Olbermann) these miscreants had managed to conceal themselves in the folds and cleavage of the global Muslim flock for the last half-century. And, just as crab-lice hunker down when a light shines on ‘em, labeling these parasites “Muslim,” or “Islamist,” in a bid to isolate and derogate them only seemed to make them burrow deeper into the global Ummah’s jungle of follicles..

But now, it seems something’s changed. The mask could be slipping, or, in keeping with my parasitic metaphor, the pyrethrinoid of Iraqi democracy may be doing its steady delousing work.

And if it’s getting harder for the Baathists to hide amongst the world’s largest religion, then they’ll be easier to target when they break out into the open in Nairobi, Chicago and Caracas. A

And then maybe America can get on with our own Arab Project, duly begun under Bush I, that of putting the “I” back in Arab Islam.