Or what Laurent Murawiec, senior policy analyst with the RAND Corporation, calls “the Wacky World of French Intellectuals.”

Murawiec writes that “a significant group of intellectuals in France firmly believes that Islamism, including its terrorist activities, is an instrument of U.S. interests and a creation of American strategists.”

These intellectuals are convinced that that “the growth of Islam and Islamism in the world is inextricably connected to the cultural, political, economic, and geostrategic action of the United States since the beginning of the twentieth century,”

And of course all this is the grand design of – can you guess? — “the Jewish lobby on behalf of Israel.”

Murawiec’s report, in Middle East Forum, is here.

Hat tip: Mohamed Ibn Guadi