Here's an organization that mines for articles that will depict only the most ignorant, hateful, anti-western sentiments,
It doesn't have to do much "mining". Merely opening the daily paper in, say, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia or the Palestinian Authority is enough. What it
does have to do "mining" for is for moderate Arab or Muslim voices. And, in my experience, it--if anything--overrepresents them.
A few months ago, for example, there was an interview on CNN with a brave Arab Muslim woman who was very clear in her anti-Islamist stance. Despite the fact that this woman, unfortunately, is very much NOT representative of the Arab and Muslim world's general views, the video was featured quited prominently on MEMRI, IIRC. And this is by no means an isolated example of MEMRI featuring moderate or otherwise non-extremist Arab and Muslim opinion, as I can tell from experience.
MEMRI's only real "crime" is that its conclusions about the state of things in the Arab and Muslim world does not fit with the multiculturalist homilities (multiculturalists believe, as we all know, that all cultures are equal, but on the other hand there's only one acceptable opinion.) For this reason it is, of course, called "racist" and "biased"--which my muticulralism-to-English dictionary defines as "I disagree with them".
Once the latter is established, which is easy enough, there's no need for actually showing any evidence that MEMRI (or anybody) is really "quote mining", or looks only for those quotes which "depcit only the most ignorant, hateful, anti-western sentiments" (patently untrue, in MEMRI's case). This just
has to be so--otherwise, how could they
possibly have reached a conclusion that differs than the multiculturalists' conclusion?
Hell hath no fury like a multiculturalist contradicted.
