26 February 2011

Bernard Lewis is still around?

And he's as racist as ever. Arabs are "simply not ready for free and fair elections", and the cause of the uprisings is "in the Muslim world, casual sex, Western-style, doesn’t exist... vast numbers of young men growing up with raging sexual desire... it can lead to the suicide bomber, who is attracted by the virgins of paradise". Lewis was last seen predicting an imminent Muslim takeover of Europe, don't know what happened with that. I like this quote "I am told that the Israeli daily [radio] program in Persian is widely listened to all over Iran with rapt attention." I'm sure you are told that. This is the United States' foremost Middle East scholar.

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