http://arabist.net/archives/2007/09/25/packer-ajami-is-shia-supremacist/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/09/25/packer-ajami-is-shia-supremacist/#comment-389801 Ibn Kafka Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:43:20 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/09/25/packer-ajami-is-shia-supremacist/#comment-389801 Yes, Fouad Ajami doesn't strike me as a principled man, except his unswerving loyalty to anything the US government might want to promote in the Middle east. However, to back the claim portraying him as a Shia supremacist, one should perhaps remember that he once wrote a positive biography about the Lebanese imam Moussa Sadr. Yes, Fouad Ajami doesn’t strike me as a principled man, except his unswerving loyalty to anything the US government might want to promote in the Middle east. However, to back the claim portraying him as a Shia supremacist, one should perhaps remember that he once wrote a positive biography about the Lebanese imam Moussa Sadr.

]]> http://arabist.net/archives/2007/09/25/packer-ajami-is-shia-supremacist/#comment-389788 SP Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:04:43 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/09/25/packer-ajami-is-shia-supremacist/#comment-389788 "Shia supremacist" might be pushing it, though he is viscerally opposed to Arab nationalism. But to accuse him of championing any one group or having strong ideological preferences is to give him too much credit. More than anything, I'd wager he just wants to convince himself he's on the right side, after flip-flopping before the war (not out of queasiness about death tolls, so much as doubts about whether the US had the stomach and skills to be a "proper" colonizer) and then lining up to be a dutiful cheerleader once it started. He'll say whatever his homeboys want him to say - loyalty first and foremost. “Shia supremacist” might be pushing it, though he is viscerally opposed to Arab nationalism. But to accuse him of championing any one group or having strong ideological preferences is to give him too much credit. More than anything, I’d wager he just wants to convince himself he’s on the right side, after flip-flopping before the war (not out of queasiness about death tolls, so much as doubts about whether the US had the stomach and skills to be a “proper” colonizer) and then lining up to be a dutiful cheerleader once it started. He’ll say whatever his homeboys want him to say - loyalty first and foremost.

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