George Wallace blushes and other amazing feats

I found are discussion of cognitive and emotive language very fruitful. Becoming familiar with some methods and tools to deconstruct what language says and what it hides strikes me as infinitely useful. Although it would be tough to give Wallace a run for his money columnist and author Robert Spencer manages. His online blog http://www.jihadwatch.org/ is confoundingly popular. I didn’t paste the whole thing…just a little taste of his rhetoric. How many emotive and manipulative terms can YOU find? *

*anyone who endures long enough to find more than five such terms (and mine don’t count) gets a cigarette

Cheers fellow scholars

“ Muslims and their enablers, fans and dedicated propagandists around the world never tire of spreading the same lies, over and over again, about Islam. Sometimes the lies are baldly blatant, and other times the lies are conveyed via convenient and strategic omission of inconvenient facts. Hence we must never tire or flag in our own efforts to shine the harsh light of truth on Islam and the lies ceaselessly circulated by Islam's snake oil salesmen.

Today's bundle of media-vectored taqiyya comes courtesy of the Malaysian daily 'The Sun' and its piece entitled 'Humanistic Islam' (!). The unintentionally ironically-named article features the musings of a Singaporean-based Muslim author named Isa Kamari, who would probably pass for a 'moderate Muslim' in the mainstream media. Much of the aforementioned article centers on Kamari's thoughts on Malay-language literature, but it is Kamari's thoughts on Islam that deserve a thorough 'Islamophobic' debunking here…”

(you can find the rest and more at: http://www.jihadwatch.org/)