Post-1960 in two sentences.

The rules in the West are that criticizing yourself is the best thing you can do, so you’d better do this a lot, and you can never overstate your own guilt, even if you bend the facts to do that – that’ll just prove you more noble, but criticizing anyone else, even if you rely on cold hard facts, is racism and phobia. The rules in the Muslim world are that criticizing yourself is almost unheard of and in certain contexts could be considered blasphemous, which is punishable by law or fatwa, but criticizing the infidel is natural since infidels are evil by definition.

Pnina.

Comment on "Radical Chic Catastrophes: When Romanticism Trumps Reason." By Barry Rubin, PJ Media, 11/28/11.

Don't miss the whole comment of which this is also particularly choice:

The idea that conquest and imperialism are bad are Western notions, and relatively recent ones. In the Muslim view conquest and imperialism are bad if carried out by infidels. If Muslims do that they just spread the light and law of god, so it’s actually one way they express their love for the rest of humanity.