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July 10, 2002
Wednesday
 
 
The Good Muslims should copy the Good Blacks
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Opinions on liberty

A month after the September 11th attacks I posted a long article on the Libertarian Alliance Forum which prophecied/threatened/feared/was-trying-to-prevent-by-threatening a possible Western slaughter of Muslims. All Muslims. It caused quite a ruckus there. The grammar was a bit overwrought but it still reads well. What did it say? Pretty much what J. J. Johnson says in this.

Summary: if the Good Muslims want to go on being treated like Good Muslims, then they had damn well better sort out the Bad Muslims.

There's no denying that there's an extra frisson to Johnson's piece that comes from him being a black man. He mentions how he and his fellow Good Blacks of American are now sorting out the Bad Blacks of America more energetically than they used to (instead of blaming it all on White America), and cites this as the kind of example that the Good Muslims ought to follow.

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