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Article: THE WEST'S RACIAL MAPS PROMOTE CIVIL WAR.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 7, 2007
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Byline: ROBERT FISK SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
Why are we trying to divide up the peoples of the Middle East? Why are we trying to chop them up, make them different, remind them - constantly, insidiously, viciously, cruelly - of their divisions, of their suspicions, of their capacity for mutual hatred? Is this just our casual racism? Or is there something darker in our Western souls?
Take the maps. Am I the only one sickened by our journalistic propensity to publish sectarian maps of the Middle East? We are all familiar with the color-coded map of Iraq. Shiites at the bottom (of course), Sunnis in their middle "triangle" - actually, it's more like an octagon ...