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Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via New York Times (Opinion), Google News (Iran), AllTop, New York Times (Most Emailed)
This is written in sweeping, academic strokes, assuming knowledge and acceptance of certain versions of history, rather than presenting balanced information for the reader to judge.
This is an attempt to justify a harder line against Iran and Palestinians using a perverted history of Islam. Karsh builds a strawman "Muslim Bloc," and then tears it down. He simplifies the long-existing religious, ethnic, and cultural cleavages that have shaped a variety of allegiances and antagonisms in Islam over it's 1400 years. He also fails to mention a colonial legacy in most Muslim communities in Asia that has scarred the psyche of Muslim countries and made issues like naming a body of water tense exercises indeed.
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