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Annals of Islamic Intimidation, Amateur Hour
by Roger Kimball https://www.legal-project.org/1176/annals-of-islamic-intimidation-amateur-hour Excerpt: "Buzz off." I wanted to put it less politely, but what follows is a message that should be taken on board by even by the most tenderhearted, so I decided on delicacy. A few days ago, the journalist Michael Weiss posted a column on The New Criterion weblog called "The Libyan School of Economics." There, he reports on the penchant of the London School of Economics for accepting money from dubious sources, including members of Colonel Gaddafi's family. As Michael points out, the venerable London institution has "lately become quite the sheikh's haven for blood capitalism." In the course of his piece, Michael devotes a paragraph to a recent talk organized by the LSE's Palestine Society and chaired by one Martha Mundy, an anthropologist and, by the sound of it, a dedicated enemy of Israel. The event featured Abdel Bari Atwan, a London-based Palestinian newspaper editor whom the journalist Douglas Murray, writing in The Wall Street Journal, described as "a man with a long record of extreme statements." Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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