Confronted by the daily avalanche of naïve nonsense or outright mendacity about the Middle East in the Western media, academia, and sometimes governments, I am haunted by something a Syrian friend told the “Syrian Journal” author:
“You know what pisses me off the most? Not the fascists here. But the appeasers in the West. What sort of message is that sending to us – those of us who want some reform, who want our children to live in an open society like you have in the West?”
Source: “Western Civilization is not Really a Civilization”: ‘Westophobia’ in Arab Culture | Augean Stables