Sunday, December 04, 2005

I heard John Updike use the expression "Angry Islam" in an interview. What does that mean? Do people talk about Happy Judaism and Merry Christianity and Depressed Buddhism? Notice how Islam becomes one person. Very much typical of those ideologies of hositility. For anti-Semites, the entire Jewish population was seen as a monolith, and for the Islamophobes, all Muslims become one Muslim, and preferrably a fanatical Muslim drawn from today's headlines.