She writes a letter published in...yes, the NYTimes arguing against David Brooks on the issue of Samuel Huntington's criticism of the Arab world, b ut still doesn't get it.
Here:
...Mr. Huntington’s essay and subsequent book, in which he asserted that the peoples of the Islamic world were incapable of developing societies rooted in freedom and democracy, which he perceived to be essentially “Western values,” sparked an extensive debate in the Arab world and among Arab communities worldwide. The Arab media covered it extensively, and what they said and wrote was totally ignored or dismissed by their Western counterparts.
My late husband, Edward W. Said, was among the prominent voices in strong opposition to Mr. Huntington’s thesis. He wrote and published in English for the Western world. Very few listened to him. It took revolutions to finally hear our voices.
But her husband, English or not, was a great champion of less-than-Western values. And he perverted the histoprical record vis-a-vis Israel, was a PLO advisor and threw a stone at Israel after it withdrew from Lebanon.
Such a scholar of disorientalism.
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