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I Emphasize In It [my Orientalism] Accortdingly That Neither The Term Orient Nor The Concept Of The West Has Any Ontological Stability; Each Is Made Up Of Human Effort, Partly Affirmation, Partly Identification Of The Other.

It Is Very Easy To Make Wild Generalizations About Islam. All You Have To Do Is Read Almost Any Issue Of The New Republic And You'll See There The Radical Evil That's Associated With Islam, The Arabs As Having A Depraved Culture, And So Forth. These Are Impossible Generalizations To Make In The United States About Any Other Religious Or Ethnic Group.

I Don't Remember When Exactly I Read My First Comic Book, But I Do Remember Exactly How Liberated And Subversive I Felt As A Result.

[9/11] Was Bloody-minded Destruction For No Other Reason Than To Do It.

Since The 1960s, We Have Seen The Failure Of The Melting Pot Ideology. This Ideology Suggested That Different Historical, Cultural And Socioeconomic Backgrounds Could Be Subordinated To A Larger Ideology Or Social Amalgam Which Is "america." This Concept Obviously Did Not Work, Because Paradoxically America Encourages A Politics Of Contestation.