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| One more in the plus column: An Arab-American Thanks Steve Emerson |
| 2007-09-06 |
| Emilio Dabul is a Mideast commentator and author of such essays as “One Arab’s Apology” and “An Arab-American Defends 24.” A taste: In the midst of all these diversionary tactics of the Islamists’ well-funded propaganda ministers, very real terrorist threats can be overlooked. That, however, is a story that neither AP nor NPR (or just about any other major media outlet other than FOX) apparently wants to pursue, and one that Steve Emerson has accurately called “The Grand Deception.” Steve, of course, continues to be guilty of speaking the truth. He has exposed such groups for what they are, showed how they undermine our national security, and never backed down, no matter how many lawsuits they bring (and lose), and how many threats he gets. The Islamist groups and their supporters can’t find any real evidence of bigotry or “Islamophobia” in Steve’s many books and speeches, so they typically return to one incident. In 1996, before Timothy McVeigh was apprehended for the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Steve said in an interview that it appeared to have the hallmark of Islamic terrorists: maximum destruction. As an Arab-American and descendant of Syrian Muslims, that statement did not offend me then, nor does it now. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center as well as multiple examples of terrorism throughout the world would have led any rational person to that same supposition, including me. The fact that it was not true in that particular case doesn’t make Steve, me, or anyone else a racist for making such a logical connection, no matter how much the Islamist bigots insist otherwise. |
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