Daniel Pipes, bigot, muses aloud

Last week Pat Buchanan was wondering what the deal is with all of the Jews on the Supreme Court.

This week, it's Daniel Pipes' turn to do the Archie Bunker routine.

Apparently Mr. Pipes was home last night, watching the Miss USA pageant with firm attention, and was disappointed that his favorite lost to Rima Fakih.

You see, it's very very bad that Ms. Fakih won. Why? Well, if you can't tell already by her foreign-y name, Ms. Fakih was born in Lebanon! Yes! And what's more,

Fakih grew up in Queens, New York, where she attended a Catholic school. Her family moved to Dearborn, Michigan, in 2003. Though Shiite Muslim, her family celebrates elements of both the Muslim and Christian faiths. (wikipedia)

Who let this woman on the plane to attend the event? Did they inspect her breasts for explosives?

Denied the explosive, climactic victory he sought for his favorite contestant, a dejected and slack Mr. Pipes wrote the following:

They are all attractive, but this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.

Now just in case you didn't quite get the message, Mr. Pipes thought this comment from a reader was worth quoting:

No surprise here. Affirmative action was first applied in beauty contests for  black women to win in the 1980s, then it was the turn of Latin, brown skinned women, and now it's Muslims. That's why most people ignore these rigged "events." They are money losers and require controversy.

It sure as hell is an odd fucking form of affirmative action, Mr. Pipes. Because I'm always reading and hearing about these damn quotas for hot Lebanese women.

I mean, would you just look at her? Who in their right minds would have voted for this woman?

Get a burqa on that woman immediately!

You'd think since Mr. Pipes is so (rightly) worked up about the Danish cartoon controversy and the oppressiveness of the burqa, he might have something positive to say about a woman's act of independence against such oppression. But then that would require that he not be a bigot.

You know, earlier I referred to Buchanan and Pipes' bigotry as an "Archie Bunker routine," and really, that's terribly unfair to Archie. Pipes' sick bigotry is far more insidious, because he attempts to cloak it in the trappings of pseudo-scholarship. He's not just some rabble-rouser like Uncle Pat, he's a real thinker. Just look at his photo on his blog, with his turtleneck and arched eyebrows. "Hmm," he thinks, stroking his beard. "I believe this photograph best expresses what a serious, scholarly person I am." But where's the pipe, Mr. Pipes? Asshole.