The New Orientalism: Why Posh Leftists Adore Muslims & the Muslim World

by Paul Austin Murphy (December 2013)

Prince Charles

John Rees (ex-SWP, now Counterfire/ Stop the War Coalition (StWC), and a regular contributor to Iran's Press TV and the Islam Channel)

Leftist Posh Boys and the Brown Exotic

Sir Richard Francis Burton, another upper-class gentleman, did in the 19th century.)

when he raped for the revolution (in the manner or Martin Smith – SWP style). More recently, there's Gareth Peirce – the female 'superlawyer' who once freed Abu Qatada.

the Islam Channel and Iran's Press TV) on how uniquely evil Israel is when compared to the sweetness and light of the Sudanese Janjaweed, Boko Haram, the Pakistani Deobandi, and even the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Hamas.

Professor Sue Blackwell. She's the supreme anti-Zionist of the UK. She works at Birmingham University. I've included her because she graphically displays the hypocrisy and condescension of Muslims by posh Trotskyists.

Two: these people, and their student-automaton followers, have resurrected colonialism and Orientalism.

Edward Said's Occidentalist book, Orientalism, was not only that Western Orientalists and colonialists belittled and dismissed Arabs and Muslims, but also that they romanticised and idealized them.)

Both the original colonialists and our own leftist neo-colonialists treated and treat Muslims as children. Colonialists of the old school were said to have treated Muslims as (bad) children who often ought to be punished. In leftist neo-colonialism, Muslims are treated as children who must never be punished because they are never responsible for anything they do (even if they blow kuffar children up).

The Marxist/ Trotskyist Theories Underneath It All

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