Before 9/11, there was considerable flap in the press about the sad lack of geographical knowledge in today’s young students. Today we find that that gap afflicts young students far less than their elders, and the most staggering lack of knowledge seems concentrated in graduates of our “best” colleges and universities!

Herein, the lesson: White folks are generally known as Caucasians. This refers to the region of origin, the Caucasus, which lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, just north of Iran. This area flies three national flags now, one of which is Islamic. That’s because it’s adjacent to the Arabian peninsula, many of whose inhabitants are themselves of Caucasian origin.

If you take the trouble to look carefully at the many photographs taken of President Bush and Saudi Prince Abdullah, it’s pretty evident that the brown guy is . . . President Bush. Abdullah is white as snow. That’s why the Arabs wear robes — they burn, like white guys. They are white guys, rich ones at that.

What is so grotesque is that the left is so often found backing Arabs because they think they’re poor little brown people, while the right is giving them a pass all too often not only because they kind of like the Islamic social programs, but because the proponents are . . . well, white as the driven snow when the robes are thrown back.

So the lesson for today is: Muslims come in all colors, but Arabs come in one, white. But all Muslims must defer to the Arab “prophet” Mohammed, a white guy. Islam holds that Allah has the original Koran in heaven, and it’s in Arabic, and the jurists and imams are generally Arabic everywhere.

One would think that a worldwide conspiracy of rich white guys who enslave everyone they can, including their own women, oil-rich white guys who disdain all things democratic and promote worldwide theocracy, would have the left plenty exercised, not to mention mobilized and marching. But no . . . because the left is so swamped in abysmal ignorance that it really doesn’t know these folks are rich white guys.

And obviously, good leftists never take jobs in Saudi, so how would they know? But their teachers did know better — what’s their excuse? It appears that once again we must follow the money. Stay tuned. In a subsequent chapter we shall look at the recent fortunes of academe and how those have affected what’s taught.