Dhimwit of the Month Honors
April 2008 Dhimwit: John Esposito
"John Esposito is a name unfamiliar to many, but there are few people on the planet more deserving of general Dhimwit honors than this Catholic apologist for Islam, who is currently on the Saudi payroll at Georgetown University.
Just two years before 9/11, the second edition of Esposito’s book “The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?” was published. In it, the professor told a primarily American audience that the threat of Islamic extremism is overblown and that they actually have nothing to fear from the Religion of Peace.
Only in academia can being so fantastically wrong about something of such tragic significance actually be a boost to one’s career. Inexplicabley, John Esposito found his profile enhanced by the loss of thousands of innocent lives and has since devoted himself to trying to convince Americans that they are the real bigots. (This evidently delights his Muslim handlers, who find in his writings yet another excuse to put off introspection and reform).
This month, Esposito is promoting his new book “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think.” Not surprisingly, it is Esposito himself who speaks for Islam and, as such, the voice of a ‘billion Muslims’ sounds remarkably similar to his own. In fact, when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Western values and the superiority of Islam, the resemblance between Esposito’s personal views and that of a “billion Muslims’ is downright uncanny.
Esposito bases his new book on Gallup polling, which has an objective ring to it at first – up until one discovers that the “Senior Scientist” on the cited Gallup project is none other than Esposito himself. Having the ability to influence the wording of survey questions yields some rather curious findings, such as the claim that Americans are three times more likely to support the killing of innocent people than are Iranians, whose country pioneered suicide bombings and whose religion fuels over a thousand deadly attacks on civilians each year.
As with his earlier (pre-9/11) effort, “What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is designed to play on Western tastes and convince readers that they have no reason to be concerned about an ideology with an explicit agenda of political and cultural dominance. Toward this end, Esposito either glosses over or ignores inconvenient details that might otherwise alarm anyone who is mindful of Islam’s irreversible creep into the West."
“...What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is really just an exercise in illusion – a parlor trick to fool readers into thinking that they do not see what they see. By stacking survey questions so as to yield preferred results, Esposito has the advantage of creating the very data to which he then refers."
www.thereligionofpeace.com/Page...s.htm
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April 2008 Dhimwit: John Esposito
"John Esposito is a name unfamiliar to many, but there are few people on the planet more deserving of general Dhimwit honors than this Catholic apologist for Islam, who is currently on the Saudi payroll at Georgetown University.
Just two years before 9/11, the second edition of Esposito’s book “The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?” was published. In it, the professor told a primarily American audience that the threat of Islamic extremism is overblown and that they actually have nothing to fear from the Religion of Peace.
Only in academia can being so fantastically wrong about something of such tragic significance actually be a boost to one’s career. Inexplicabley, John Esposito found his profile enhanced by the loss of thousands of innocent lives and has since devoted himself to trying to convince Americans that they are the real bigots. (This evidently delights his Muslim handlers, who find in his writings yet another excuse to put off introspection and reform).
This month, Esposito is promoting his new book “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think.” Not surprisingly, it is Esposito himself who speaks for Islam and, as such, the voice of a ‘billion Muslims’ sounds remarkably similar to his own. In fact, when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, Western values and the superiority of Islam, the resemblance between Esposito’s personal views and that of a “billion Muslims’ is downright uncanny.
Esposito bases his new book on Gallup polling, which has an objective ring to it at first – up until one discovers that the “Senior Scientist” on the cited Gallup project is none other than Esposito himself. Having the ability to influence the wording of survey questions yields some rather curious findings, such as the claim that Americans are three times more likely to support the killing of innocent people than are Iranians, whose country pioneered suicide bombings and whose religion fuels over a thousand deadly attacks on civilians each year.
As with his earlier (pre-9/11) effort, “What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is designed to play on Western tastes and convince readers that they have no reason to be concerned about an ideology with an explicit agenda of political and cultural dominance. Toward this end, Esposito either glosses over or ignores inconvenient details that might otherwise alarm anyone who is mindful of Islam’s irreversible creep into the West."
“...What a Billion Muslims Really Think” is really just an exercise in illusion – a parlor trick to fool readers into thinking that they do not see what they see. By stacking survey questions so as to yield preferred results, Esposito has the advantage of creating the very data to which he then refers."
www.thereligionofpeace.com/Page...s.htm
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