Saturday, February 10, 2007

Mahmud Haddad unearths an article by Bernard Lewis from 1954. In 1954, Bernard Lewis ruled that Islam lends itself to communism; in 2007, Bernard Lewis rules that Islam lends itself to terrorism. In other words, Bernard Lewis (when he is not engaged in Orientalist nemerology that is) is willing to rule that Islam lends itself to whatever the US declares to be an enemy.