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Arabs Muslims Some People Back Bush

· Wednesday, February 18, 2004 · No comments

Jack Shafer has an amusing fisking of a Tuesday NYT story that’s a little mixed up about Middle Eastern geography, ethnicity, and religion. It’s subtitled, “Considering today’s New York Times story about Arabs. I mean, Muslims. No, brownish people from the Middle East. Or possibly South Asia.” It defies excerpting; just read it.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm veteran. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

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