Omid Safi's Exquisite Art of Moral Equivalency

Yesterday at American Thinker, Middle East Forum director of academic affairs Winfield Myers critiqued the latest attempt by a professor of Middle East studies to obfuscate the danger posed by jihadi terrorists in the West:

Last week, Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, used his blog "What Would Muhammad Do" at the Religion News Service to claim a moral equivalency between Ft. Hood jihadist Major Nidal Malik Hasan and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. "When Americans Kill vs. When Muslims Kill" is a morally repugnant attempt to claim a double standard in the way Americans react to mass murder. In this, Safi echoes the party line of the Middle East studies establishment, which blames the West for the region's political and technological backwardness while largely ignoring its systemic social problems, from the subservient roles of women to the glorification of terrorism.

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