{"id":37303,"date":"2011-10-11T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37303"},"modified":"2011-10-11T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:39:46","slug":"was-steve-jobs-arab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37303","title":{"rendered":"Was Steve Jobs Arab?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: The press feels bad for the Arab world in general and for Arab-Americans in particular. The former is almost never in the news for anything positive, and the latter are deemed victims of xenophobia and Islamophobia. So if one of the giants of our age can be declared an Arab and an Arab-American, many in the media are only too delighted to do so.<\/p>\n

Though the birth father played no role whatsoever in the life of Steve Jobs, article after article has been written about Jandali. That this has been motivated by a desire to label Steve Jobs an Arab-American is further proven by the fact that we read nothing of the birth mother — which is particularly noteworthy given that those who are preoccupied with blood parents are almost always more preoccupied with the identity of the birth mother than that of the birth father. But the poor woman is merely a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a member of the only American group that is granted no special status by the Politically Correct.<\/p>\n

So a man whose only parents were WASPs and one of whose birth parents was a WASP is now declared an Arab. Google “Steve Jobs Arab” and you’ll get 86 million hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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