Daniel Pipes guilty of coming up with a very catchy and winning phrase

Submitted by rick (United States), Jul 14, 2008 at 11:01

What got these "critics" of Pipes was his excellent phrase that "Muslim countries have the most terrorists and the fewest democracies in the world".

That stuck in the gut of anti-Western, pro-Arabists. They decided to try and turn it to the detriment of Pipes with a PC interpretation. But to do even that they had to distort or fabricate a new additional phrase. Their "academic" dishonesty, if one can even use the "academic" label for them, is clearly evident.

Their response to Pipe's request for a retraction and an apology became another instance of double talk and avoidance of their own fabrications. There is simply no way to disagree with what Pipes wrote so the solution is to "explain" what it "really" means which is actually just a exercise in lying.

A person may disagree with another but first he/she has to understand what the person actually said. Sadowski and Halabi know very well what Pipes is saying and they don't disagree so much as dislike the airing of that type of thinking. Their "criticism" is in reality a banishment or a suppression of Pipes and not of an idea. Sadowski and Halabi are worthless.

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