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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

(Jerusalem Post) Arnold Ages - There is a shocking, racist bigotry against Arabs that displays itself regularly in the reportage over the "Arab Spring" and Syria's casualty count. Arabs are depicted inferentially, by the major news outlets, as being incapable of measuring up to the high expectations of international morality. The perception in the Western media is that one cannot really expect Arab nations to embrace the idea of the sanctity of life. This is a deplorable indictment of a civilization that has contributed so much to humankind. The reluctance to expose and condemn unequivocally the savage murder of Arab innocents victimized by Arab governments is soft bigotry that must stop. The author is a distinguished emeritus professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
2013-01-22 00:00:00
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