Now that Fareed Zakaria is on his way to TIME, the head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies feels the need to comment. Clifford May writes for National Review that TIME founder Henry Luce “would have been mortified”:
The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy. He saw the 20th century as ?the first great American Century.? He would have wanted the United States to lead in the current era as well.
Now Time has hired Fareed Zakaria, who is perhaps best known for The Post-American World, which, he insists, ?is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.?
Among those rising: self-proclaimed jihadis and Islamists about whom Zakaria expresses minimal concern. On his CNN show the other day, he noted that a synagogue in Beirut is being restored. Hezbollah, he said, supports the restoration: ?Yes, Hezbollah ? the one that the United States has designated a foreign terrorist organization. Hezbollah?s view on the renovation goes like this. ?We respect divine religions, including the Jewish religion. The problem is with Israel?s occupation of Arab lands . . . not with the Jews.? Food for thought.?
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It all adds up to this: By defending such terrorist groups as Hezbollah, while simultaneously denouncing those attempting to understand the motives and methods of ruthless jihadis and insidious Islamists, [Joe] Klein, Zakaria, and Time are not just spreading disinformation ? serving junk food for thought ? they are pursuing intellectual disarmament in the middle of the War against the West.
By so doing, they also undermine those many Muslims who do not want to live under the rule of the Taliban, Khomeinist mullahs, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other militants intent on imposing their oppressive versions of Islam on all of us.
