Maybe it's time to do away with Occidentalism in the academy--the fallacy that the West is to blame for everything bad that has happened in history.
Said is a very intelligent man and a very capable writer, but he is also a political representative of the P.L.O. and, as several scholars have complained in recent years, an ideologue who doesn't hesitate to lie when it suits his interests.
Xenophobia is a
logical & rational for any American to engage in at this time. Xenophobia bespeaks SANITY & WISDOM, in the face of horrid sadists who claim they have infiltrated our country because they hate us and intend to murder us.
Let's hear it for X E N O P H O B I A -- RAH, RAH!