That is why I like to read stuff from Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, ete., because they bring it a 21st century thinking approach to this Islam/jihad issue.
Just so you know I heard Lewis talking in NYC before GWB took us into Iraq and Lewis basically said then that we should go in now. If we didn't we would have to do it in five years and then it might be too late; and then he said we should have taken care of Iraq five years earlier. He may have blinders about the general nature of Islam, but it was pretty clear to me that he understood what was going on.
ML/NJ