"Sure he offers some points to dispute the really really trashy rumors about Rai, but in giving a platform to the rumors, and at points making them seem open to possibility and perhaps respectable, Young stoops lower than I can remember in the last eight years of reading him… Pretty incredible stuff here:
“For years a lubricious rumor had circulated about Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai. A Lebanese author in Paris, Antoine Basbous, has, so to speak, just torn the covers away by putting it all in print. Regardless of whether the rumor is true, the method of publicizing it remains questionable, as is Basbous’ interpretation of its significance...." (thanks Nicholas)
“For years a lubricious rumor had circulated about Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai. A Lebanese author in Paris, Antoine Basbous, has, so to speak, just torn the covers away by putting it all in print. Regardless of whether the rumor is true, the method of publicizing it remains questionable, as is Basbous’ interpretation of its significance...." (thanks Nicholas)
