You'd be better off reading Burroughs' Tarzan series of books, from the 1920s and 1930s, than things like the NYT today.
Of course Burroughs was a Rousseau esq, Ayn Randian misanthrope, with very odd ideas, but he did not candy coat his feelings and sociological descriptions to suit the liberal establishment of his time, or ours.
Funnily enough, his views of barbarous races and civilizations were very widely shared in the West. In that sense, many of his accounts were quite mainstream, although tinged with a right wing, civil libertarian, anti civilization, Rousseau, frankly anarchist, bias.
A typical locution, referring to a Christian, actually to all Christians, among Burroughs' Bedouins or Arabs, is "Dog of a nasrani."
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