AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - Catch-22: Third-worldism (or is it Islam?) is a ‘mental illness’
By Olivia Murray But don’t take my word for it, take the word of progressive governments the Western world over.
By Olivia Murray But don’t take my word for it, take the word of progressive governments the Western world over.
Decades of immigration from Muslim-majority Third World countries has turned the Democrats into the party of militant anti-Americanism.
A new way of understanding America’s enemies obscures more than it reveals. The post The Problem With Third Worldism appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Problem With Third Worldism A new way of understanding America’s enemies obscures more than it reveals. Remember Islamofascism? For many neocons at the height of the War on Terror, this was the term of choice to describe America’s enemies. Compared to the alternatives, the label had much to recommend it. As William Safire noted in the New York Times in 2006: Islamic radicalism seems long, bookish and weak, because a radical need not be any kind of terrorist…[and] militant jihadist is redundant if you take jihad to mean “holy war.” Plus some Muslim scholars translate the Arabic word as “spiritual…Open