A Well-Deserved Fisking

J. Carter Wood, over at Obscene Desserts, delivers a well-deserved fisking to an opinion piece written by Ziauddin Sardar. I read the piece by Sardar in the Guardian, and thought it was bizarre. The byline to the article was, I kid you not, "Amis, Rushdie and McEwan are using their celebrity status to push a neocon agenda", which instantly made me think that I had fallen down some sort of intellectual rabbithole.

 

Luckily, J. Carter Wood is at hand to helpfully point out that it’s not me. Sardar’s article is even more bizarre than I realised.

 

And the really depressing thing? The Guardian states, at the end of Sardar’s article, that "Ziauddin Sardar has been appointed a commissioner of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights". Gawd help us. I have fallen down that rabbithole after all.