Ed: Wendy Chamberlin has found the formula to turning dhimmism into a crack-like smokable form, she's expected to reap in millions from sales to the ACLU alone.Wendy J. Chamberlin, president of the Middle East Institute, is not focusing on the Israel-Palestinian conflict or the war in Iraq. Instead, she is speaking on a broader but no less challenging subject: understanding how mainstream Muslims perceive the United States.
She began by using polls and statistics to paint a picture for the audience of the mainstream Muslim community, which, according to her, admires our civil freedoms, education and entrepreneurship.
OK...
The second half of Chamberlin's speech attempted to explain the contradiction, asking why the majority of Muslims share our values but don't like us.
(Dhimmi overdose -ed.)
"The explanations are in our actions and foreign policy," Chamberlin said. She pointed to several contributing factors in damaging the dialogue between the US and the Middle East including:
— The high presence of U.S. troops on Muslim soil (Our fault)
— The treatment of Muslims at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (Our fault)
— Racial profiling in the U.S. after 9/11 (Our fault)
— A foreign policy that does not accept democratically elected leaders who hold certain views (Our fault)
— Rhetoric such as the "War on Terror" and "You're either with us, or against us" (Our fault)
— A media that focuses on the violent, extremist minority (Our fault)