The Islamic threat narrative ignores that major Muslim states are US client states
Evidence
To call such ideas hostile and irrational is not to overstate the case, particularly since these same ideas have come to a kind of apotheosis in the work of journalists like Judith Miller of the New York Times, whose book God Has Ninety-Nine Names: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Militant Middle East (Simon and Schuster, 1996) is like a textbook of the inadequacies and distortions of media coverage of Islam. … Miller does not mention that most Islamic countries today are poverty stricken, tyrannical, and hopelessly inept militarily as well as scientifically to be much of a threat to anyone except their own citizens; and she doesn’t dwell on the fact that the most powerful of them — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan — are totally within the United States’ orbit. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 44
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to Huntington’s clash of civilizations thesis and to the author’s broader critique of Orientalism.