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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
King of Compassion Rod Dreher, discoursing on Michel Houellebecq's works, does Houellebecq, who has a character experience "a 'quiver of glee' every time a Palestinian terrorist is killed," one better. "Hell," Dreher gushes, "I dance the tarantella with roses in my hair whenever I hear that the Israeli Defense Forces have sent one of those kaffiyehed Nazis to that dee-luxe apartment in the sky." Dreher does not say whether he continues his grotesque dance when the music is abruptly interrupted with news that the dead, with apalling regularity, are not terrorists.
According to ummahnews.com, Houellebecq, the new Rushdie in the National Review Pantheon of literary achievement, also allows his protagonist to feel "a rush of enthusiasm" on hearing "of a Palestinian terrorist, a Palestinian child or a pregnant Palestinian woman being shot in the Gaza Strip." Does Dreher likewise dance on receiving such news? posted by Anonymous6:29 PM
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