"Lawrence says that bin Laden is fundamentally a “poet”—"
Too bad Lawrence is fudamentally an idiot. Just read the whole article and it is just another example of how the left is undermining this country at our universities. Every single 'Islamic Studies' course at our American universities are infiltrated with this kind of nonsense.
Hell, even our world religion courses are leaving out Christianity with it comes to the syllabuses. My son took a World Religion course at a Christian University, taught by a Muslim, and all they studied was Islam the entire semester!! He told the students they already knew enough about the Christian religion and when I called to complain..the DEAN said the Professor was right to design his class as he saw fit!!..GIVE ME A BREAK!!
your contributions at work; american universities were hijacked long ago by the left. if you're a socialist in america, a university is your best anti-capitalist employment option if you can get a job as a journalist.