RE: The ISIS site and Joe's other sources

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 11 Nov 2002 - 01:59:30 GMT

  • Next message: Lawrence DeBivort: "RE: The ISIS site and Joe's other sources"

    > Joe, I have in my library about a half-dozen of Bernard Lewis' books,
    > and have read them all. If you have actually read any of his writings,
    > such as his extraordinary work on how the Muslim/Arab world
    > 'discovered' Europe, you will see that he hardly supports your
    > patronizing and condemnatory view of the world.
    >
    > But we have to stop meeting like this: I have things I want to get to,
    > and I do not think any of these exchanges are budging your thinking,
    > nor, thinking selfishly, generating any greater memetic insight into
    > how you have derived these views than I already have. As I said in my
    > last message, check in with me when and if you consult any of the
    > easily available sources I suggest. Combing the world for duplicative
    > anti-Muslim expressions and posting them here is not getting anyone
    > anywhere. Since Sept 11, and since the end of the Cold War, such
    > expressions abound, which is why we must hold ourselves to higher
    > standards here and bring to our endeavours an understanding of the
    > memetic dynamics that are at play.
    >
    > I have made my point regarding your views and their sources adequately
    > clear in this forum, and so I break off this discussion with you.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Lawry
    >
    And I will post the url's to those essays so that others can judge that your characterization of Bernard Lewis' work is self-sevingly flawed.
    >
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