The U.S. military and neocon RACIST "handbook" on Arabs.

[SandyUSA]

THIS IS DYNAMITE! Unbelievable. This evil racist stupid thinking is what is being taught to our US military. No wonder ordinary and innocent Iraqis are being treated so viciously as if they are hopelessly subhuman and deserve only ridicule, contempt, torture, and death. Sandy

The Guardian Unlimited
May 24, 2004.

'Its best use is as a doorstop'

Brian Whitaker explains why a book packed with
sweeping generalisations about Arabs carries so much
weight with both neocons and military in the US

Consider these statements:
"Why are most Africans, unless forced by dire
necessity to earn their livelihood with 'the sweat of
their brow', so loath to undertake any work that
dirties the hands?"

"The all-encompassing preoccupation with sex in the
African mind emerges clearly in two manifestations
..."

"In the African view of human nature, no person is
supposed to be able to maintain incessant,
uninterrupted control over himself. Any event that is
outside routine everyday occurrence can trigger such a
loss of control ... Once aroused, African hostility
will vent itself indiscriminately on all outsiders."

These statements, I think you'll agree, are thoroughly
offensive. You would probably imagine them to be the
musings of some 19th century colonialist. In fact,
they come from a book promoted by its US publisher as
"one of the great classics of cultural studies", and
described by Publisher's Weekly as "admirable", "full
of insight" and with "an impressive spread of
scholarship".

The book is not actually about Africans. Instead, it
takes some of the hoariest old prejudices about black
people and applies them to Arabs.

Replace the word "African" in the quotations above
with the word "Arab", and you have them as they appear
in the book. It is, the book says, the Arabs who are
lazy, sex-obsessed, and apt to turn violent over the
slightest little thing.

Writing about Arabs, rather than black people, in
these terms apparently makes all the difference
between a racist smear and an admirable work of
scholarship.

The book in question is called The Arab Mind...

REST OF ARTICLE:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1223525,00.html

[SandyUSA]

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