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A newborn lamb has wandered into this barren pasture.
Salman wisely observes that "Muslim activists need to pick their battles". Unfortunately, he then says:
So, I got curious about this "blue book" that Steyn mentioned.
This is what I have found so far.
There is no Blue Book it's The Little Green Book.
Oh, dear. Not again. I'm afraid there is a Blue Book, and, for the slow of comprehension and for the other practitioners of three-second Google scholarship, you can see pictures of it here. And even Salman's cited source - Professor John Miller, Canada's most comprehensively shagged sheep - has conceded the point.
There is a rather pitiful psychosis in the Internet Age. It is not enough for the likes of Professor Miller or M J Murphy to disagree with someone, to have a difference of opinion, to accept that persons can draw different conclusions about a particular situation. No, it has to be more than that: Steyn has made up a quote! Fallen for a hoax! Invented an entirely fictional book by the Ayatollah Khomeini!
Eventually, they briefly understand that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your perfunctory unilingual Google search, and issue grudging apologies accepting the facts but huffily protesting about Steyn's general disposition and broad interpretation. They don't realise that's the post they should have written in the first place.
Salman makes some interesting points before he falls for the Muphy-Miller hoax. If he sends me a street address, I'll be happy to mail him a complimentary copy of Lights Out, in which among many other delights he will find my analysis of Dr Miller's "scholarship" preserved within hard covers.
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