Bernard Lewis

                   

Seven Questions: Bernard Lewis on the Two Biggest Myths About Islam

foreignpolicy.com     8 hrs ago   1 related          

He is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Islam and the Middle East. Bernard Lewis shares his thoughts on Iraq, “Islamofascism,” the roots of terrorism, and the two biggest misperceptions about the Muslim faith. The...                    

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Children's schoolbooks lie about Islam

dailyestimate.com     yesterday   2 related          

In textbooks distributed to New York City school children, the thought that "jihad" is holy war is said to be wrong. A review of leading textbooks used in New York City and nationwide reveals they deliberately misrepresent...                    

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Future Shockwave? (is Iran planning an EMT attack against US?)

freerepublic.com     Aug 14, 2008   3 related          

If you don’t live in Washington, New York, or another big city, you may think: “Even if the terrorists do strike again on American soil, my hometown and my family probably aren’t in danger.” Think again. In 2001 the U.S....                    

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An Eclectic Life

baheyya.blogspot.com     Aug 9, 2008          

Autobiography is my least favourite literary genre, too easily prone to posturing and self-exoneration, or else heavy woe-is-me tales about the author’s suffering at the hands of a cruel world. Life is already too full of...                    

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Professor Ann Lambton: Persianist unrivalled in the breadth of her scholarship whose association...

independent.co.uk     Aug 1, 2008          

Among the litany of failures enumerated by James Bill in The Eagle and the Lion: the tragedy of American-Iranian relations (1988) was the fact that only 10 per cent of American diplomats posted to Iran in the 1970s spoke and...                    

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From Germany to Belgium

tomgpalmer.com     Jul 30, 2008          

The seminar sponsored by IES-Europe, the Cato Institute, and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung is going well. The students, from all over Europe (and from Africa: Nigeria and Burkina Faso), are really fine. On Saturday this...                    

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Workers want some sugar lands

jamaica-gleaner.com     Jul 27, 2008          

published: Sunday | July 27, 2008 Gareth Manning, Sunday Gleaner Reporter SOME SUGAR workers are clamouring for Government to lease them a portion of the sugar lands it will retain as part of the deal with Brazilian outfit...                    

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School for scoundrels

citizen-times.com     Jul 26, 2008   3 related          

Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith,...                    

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Jack Howard; MIT professor guided by both science, faith; 70

signonsandiego.com     Jul 22, 2008          

As tilling the soil of a Kentucky tobacco farm as a child gave way to cultivating the fields of chemical engineering at MIT as an adult, Jack B. Howard kept sight of the source of his good fortune. “He felt that everything that...                    

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Matthew Duss: Iraqi support for US withdrawal signals political maturity

guardian.co.uk     Jul 22, 2008   51 related          

Despite attempts by the Bush administration and other war supporters to downplay the numerous statements from various Iraqi government officials over the last several weeks, there can no longer be any doubt that a strong...                    

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