Andrew Sullivan is on the case on the Trita Parsi smear campaign. This site’s been AWOL, sorry folks; many have alerted us, and there’s no excuse. Sullivan:
It’s just a rare and small glimpse of how neocons operate. It is warfare abroad and warfare at home. It is a philosophy of attack and force, not dialogue and thought. And if we are to find a sane way through our current perilous global environment, it must be exposed and resisted as thoroughly and as relentlessly as we try to resist its mirror image among the extremists within the Iran coup regime.
Says my anonymous tipster, a Muslim: Here essentially Andrew Sullivan dares to say what I think but cowardly cannot say: there’s little difference between the ideology of neoconservatives and Islamists. Both privilege one tribe (theirs) over the ‘other.’ Both adhere to discriminatory laws (Sharia and the law of return) as quasi-sacred. Both are unwilling to critically reflect upon their beliefs. Both adhere to a form of religious nationalism.
