When Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia recently declared that "Jews
rule this world by proxy" and urged Muslim nations to unite to avoid being
"defeated by a few million Jews," he was heavily criticized throughout the
Western world for anti-Semitism.  Largely obscured was the fact that in the same
address, Mahathir had been much more harsh with his fellow Muslims, calling them
a backward people, crippled by religious superstition and enfeebled by
infighting.  But no one in the West accused him of being anti-Muslim.  And when the
US Senate voted — without dissent — to restrict military aid to Malaysia in
retaliation (for his remark about Jews, not the one about Muslims), who a
mongst Mahathir’s critics conceded that this lent some credence to his statement
about Jewish influence?
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The Most Reverend Pat Robertson recently called for the nuking of the State
Department.  "If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom," he
said over the radio.  "I think that’s the answer."
Imagine that a Muslim minister — or any Muslim — had said the same on the
radio — or even in a private conversation.  Imagine anyone who wasn’t an
influential conservative Christian or Jew saying the same in this day and age.  
Imagine the consequences.
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George W. recently designated Otto Reich, his Special Envoy for Western
Hemisphere Initiatives, to lead a delegation to attend the commemoration ceremony
of the 20th Anniversary of "the restoration of democracy to Grenada".  Bad
enough that Reich has on his resum