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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Bernard Lewis is hardly a troll...
Bernard Lewis is hardly a troll...
Unfortunately hes not a demographer, and doesnt seem to have accounted for declining birth rates among the children of immigrants.
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he is a brilliant historian.
Unfortunately hes not a demographer, and doesnt seem to have accounted for declining birth rates among the children of immigrants."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber -
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Maybe he ain't, I don't know. The article sure is, however.Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Bernard Lewis is hardly a troll..."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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You don't know who Bernard Lewis is?KH FOR OWNER!
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Prof. Bernard Lewis, the world-renowned Middle Eastern and Islamic scholar
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Lewis, who was born in London to middle-class Jewish parents but has long lived in the United States.
That's all I know about him really (and the fact he's a historian, as LOTM implies).
This article doesn't make me want delve further into knowing him."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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Your loss...KH FOR OWNER!
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Lewis was a lot more interesting two or three decades ago..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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I'd still take his opinion over Juan Cole's...KH FOR OWNER!
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About the Ottoman Empire in general, maybe. Not about the Iraqi Shia. Or immigration politics, for that matter."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Maybe. I don't really have anything against Juan Cole (it's not entirely his fault the nutroots have latched onto him). He's just no Bernard Lewis...KH FOR OWNER!
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True, few people can write xenophobic tracts like Lewis..."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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It's really too bad Lewis is Jewish. With his writing skill, he could give Cole a run for his money in fomenting anti-Semitism.KH FOR OWNER!
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At least he isn't fermenting it.Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
It's really too bad Lewis is Jewish. With his writing skill, he could give Cole a run for his money in fomenting anti-Semitism.
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NYT piece on the original Obama=jihadist story
Hardly sounds like a right-wing conspiracy based on this. Just a huckster peddling dubious but juicy stories to a press eager for anything that will fill time on the 24-hour news networks...KH FOR OWNER!
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Juan Cole on the history of the Iranian Bahais, hands down. Thats his thing.Originally posted by Ramo
About the Ottoman Empire in general, maybe. Not about the Iraqi Shia. Or immigration politics, for that matter.
Bernard Lewis on the Ottoman Empire in general, for sure.
I dont know that either is really an expert on the Iraqi Shia. And I dont know that id take any academic expert on the Iraqi Shia, given the pace at which reality is changing- Id favor a good reporter, like John Burns."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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