Warriors
Three people you should know, if you don't already:
My friend Andrew Bostom, the redoubtable editor and compiler of the essential collections The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, spoke recently in Fairfield, Connecticut, at Congregation Beth El.
His talk was followed by a lunch at the Black Rock Turnpike Deli, where the above photo was taken. With Andy is Rebecca Bynum, the intrepid former Jihad Watch news editor and current editor of the excellent New English Review site. Ace Jihad Watch analyst Hugh Fitzgerald, who also writes over at NER, was in attendance as well, making it a real gathering of giants.
Rebecca is holding two seminal works by Richard L. Rubenstein: After Auschwitz and The Cunning of History. Richard Rubenstein is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Bridgeport, and is currently Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus at Florida State.
After devoting the greater part of his career to examining the significance of the Holocaust for religion and Western civilization, Dr. Rubenstein turned to what he believes to be the greatest threat to Western civilization since National Socialism: the global jihad. His first book on the subject, La Perfidie de l’Histoire, was jointly published in France in March 2005 by Éditions Les Provinciales and Les Éditions du Cerf. His forthcoming book, Jihad and Genocide, is under contract to Rowman and Littlefield.
Rubenstein’s book-length studies on Islam were preceded by a number of essays on Islam and the West, including:
• “The God of Abraham and the Clash of Civilizations,” Florida State University Research in Review, Summer/Fall 2008.
• “Pipeline to Peril: On Oil and Anti-Semitism,” Reform Judaism, Spring 2006.
• “Encounter with an Angry Muslim Academic,” Front Page Magazine, September 2, 2005.
Take some time to read and study: Bostom's books, Bynum's website, Rubenstein's articles.
"The God of Abraham and the Clash of Civilizations" is a nice piece to send to your mainstream media propaganda victim friends.
Your Product Placement is subtle, but not subtle enough. Anyone can recognize the photograph as an ad for Illy caffe. Quaere: how much did the company pay you? Illy now charges twice as much for its coffee as Lavazza, a price that apparently doesn't faze the clientele at Whole Foods, but might raise an eyebrow in Little Italy (or what's left of it) and the North End (or what's ditto), not to mention Italy itself. I'm sticking with the less-expensive Lavazza. Hard times, you know.
And I trust the Lavazza marketing people, having read this, will send me a gross of Lavazza qualita oro, sotto vuoto, and pronto, even espresso. Otherwise I'll have to recant and delete this post altogether.
My riff several years ago on M&Ms brought me, out of the wild blue yonder of a marketing department, 5000 packages of M&Ms. I'd like to see if, moving on up the phylogenetic scale, the same can be done with coffee. Man cannot live, after all, by orange juice alone.
There was a public siting of Hugh Fitzgerald?
This must be taqiyya!
"a public siting..."
Yes, I asked to be placed very carefully on a plinth, but as I kept slipping off, everyone left me lying there on the ground, looking very silly, while they all went off to get a bite to eat. And a cup, bien entendu, of Illy caffe.
Posted by: Vee at December 9, 2008 2:16 PM
Agreed. I thought that Hugh was simply communing from within The Force at this point. I guess I was wrong.
Ladies and gentlemen
the idea that Mr Fitzgerald is some kind of fictional alter ego of Mr Spencer's is a jihadwatch comments floor rumour that was long ago laid to rest, as far as I am concerned. I think it would be quite difficult for a practising Greek Melkite Catholic, such as Mr Spencer, to convincingly maintain a persona that was - as Mr Fitzgerald is - a polymath atheist; or for someone with Mr Spencer's Hagrid-style intellectual fascination with the poisonous monster that is Islam, to invent the persona of Mr Fitzgerald, who makes it quite, quite plain that although he studies Islam and its works and days out of bitter civilisational necessity, he would much, much rather be studying *anything* else.
*No-one* could have invented Mr Fitzgerald. He's sui generis.
My own suspicion is that we never see a picture of Mr Fitzgerald because any such picture would, so to speak, 'blow his cover'.
Indeed, I suspect even the name 'Hugh Fitzgerald' of being a nom de guerre.
Black Rock Deli? LOL!! I adore your sense of humor.
"I asked to be placed very carefully on a plinth, but as I kept slipping off, everyone left me lying there on the ground"
Whereafter the poor fellow was forced to consider a career as a wordsmith, due to his position as part of the Runes of Athens presumably.
"the idea that Mr Fitzgerald is some kind of fictional alter ego of Mr Spencer's..."
Who is suggesting that?
I don't know about nom de guerres, but there is a very nice artist's rendering of Mr. Fitzgerald that certainly suffices for me, in lieu of an picture that is.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014431.php
Robert, thank you for the kind comments about New English Review. I hope readers will dip into this site, where there is much to instruct and more to delight.
Best
Interested, A.K.A. Mary Jackson, New English Review.
l wonder if Mr.Fitzerald was taking the pictures in front of a mirror, as l do believe there is a shadow in the picture and it seems to be tipping over with a bottle of wine.
Oh, Lord, how kind you all are for not castigating me for penning "siting" - when "sighting" is what I meant.
Geez, second apology within the hour. I'm slipping with time, obviously.
At least I haven't completely fallen off of my perch yet.
You lost me on this one. I have been a loyal watcher of Jihadwatch for the last 5 years. This article loses me for good.
Robert, you are a Christian, not a Jew. It would be a good idea to investigate the "love" for the Christians of the Jewish Supremacists like Chabad Lubavitch.
Oh dear. Apparently those five years of being a "loyal watcher [sic]" of JihadWatch had no effect on the understanding of what it is about Islam that so disturbs, for at least part of what the poster just above expresses is a world-view, with elements of conspiracy theories (and a distant, still muffled sound, of marching jackboots) and a most peculiar view, revealing that pathology with which we are all acquainted --peculiar, that is, if you come to this site, understand that it makes no distinction between the many people and peoples threatened by Islam, and is not about to become a right-wing-Christians-who-greatly-dislike-Jews-and-Hindus-and-no-doubt-many others site, which is where I suggest the poster above should, after closing the door behind him, go. It should do wonders for his spiritual uplift.
How could anyone not want to hug Dr. Bostom? He's adorable and ridiculously brilliant.
I have posited that self-destructive tendencies and Judeophobia go hand-in-hand before. I think there is a strong correlation between non-literacy as well.