Saturday, October 08, 2011

A lousy Time magazine correspondent (who became AUC professor for some reason) pays tribute to Sadat

"To the young people who made the January 25 "revolution" in Tahrir Square, Sadat is a figure from a distant past. If they think of him at all, many are quick to curse him for making peace with Israel. There is little regret or grief over his assassination by Islamic extremists at a military parade in a Cairo suburb on Oct. 6, 1981.  And yet, Sadat was a remarkable warrior-statesman."  You read the last sentence about the anti-Semitie unrepentant Nazi dictator, and you figure out why he teaches at AUC.  Are the standards at AUC that bad (academically and politically) that this guy was hired to teach?  Oh, and he cites headlines from Rose Al-Yusuf (how did he read the headlines, I wonder) when he does not cite that this magazine was the mouthpiece of the Mubarak dictatorship for decades and is seen as the reactionary voice in the press.