Steven Fish as a Middle East expert

This guy teaches political science at UC, Berkeley. He never studied the Middle East ever.  After Sep. 11, there was money for those who study the Middle East: many jumped on the bandwagon, and he was one of them. He recruited many Middle East specialists from among the graduate student pool at Berkeley, and many realized that he was clueless and that his project is rather politically and academically offensive.  I knew a few who fled the project.  His book is out: some samples:  "Gender inequality is more severe among Muslims, Muslims are unusually averse to homosexuality and other controversial behaviors."  Make no mistake about it: racism and ignorance are the norms in the Western study of the Middle East. (thanks Fatima)