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From then on, the album gets more complex. The best expression of Ozo’s no-passport-needed, pan-global style is the groovy “1234,” on which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like...
...Americans were divided into hundreds of tribes. Between many of those there were disputes; many others were ignorant of each other’s existence.” He then attempts to liken this situation to that of modern-day Arabs. Cheever is apparently unaware of the concept of Pan-Arabism, which, along with Islamism, ranks as one of the strongest political trends in the Arab world today. Indeed, the religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity among Native American peoples stands in stark contrast to the religious, cultural, and ethnic uniformity of the Arab world. Here, Cheever seems to be arguing...
...addition, these two groups are linked in a particularly American sense—both have been stereotyped in film. From early Westerns to Disney’s Peter Pan, the images of “Indians” were always distorted in ways that were never flattering. As a society, we’ve begun to come to terms with this prejudice. The term “Native Americans” has replaced its derogatory predecessors, and movies like Dances with Wolves are generally good-faith attempts at respectful re-tellings of history...
...fundamentalist guerilla fighters in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union and tolerance of the extreme interpretation of Islam being taught by Wahhabism-based schools in Saudi Arabia—contributed to the development of radical Islamist sentiments throughout the Muslim world. It is clear that in encouraging pan-Islamism to exorcize the Soviet demon, we helped create the Islamist demon of today...
Most recently, he has agreed to serve as an ‘objective expert’ for the legal team handling the appeal of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am flight...