hmmm aren't cabbies interesting, we were just in NYC, we had a Pakistani cabbie and he had a small US flag hanging from his rear view mirror and he was quite proud of it...I was shocked....
as I thought, Bernard Lewis is Jewish, born in Britain,
actually when I quoted Lewis on another board with a lot of Muslim visitors, I was always waiting for someone to attack Lewis on that basis, but I don't recall that anyone did....
so ironically the man considered one of the foremost scholars on Islam is a Jew
and given his theories, and having just reviewed the faculty list for Princeton's Near East Studies Department, and given the way most college campuses think these days, sadly, how is it they haven't run him out of Princeton yet?
I mean he is basically saying Muslims are backwards ok in academic speak, they are not "progessing" as a society and that Islam is what is holding them back.....because the three tenets to progress are democracy, equal participation of women and education - real education, not just religious