You may be accepted, provided that you follow our agenda; this statement represents the policy that the United States has frequently applied in its relationship with Arabs. However, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have had a titanic negative impact on American policy toward Arabs, particularly Arab Muslims, more than ever. In the post-9/11 era, many cultural and political American intellectuals produce a myriad of antagonistic discourses on the nature of Islam and the temperaments of Arab Muslims. This cultural practice is defined, in the world of academia, as Neo-Orientalism, which is...