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The Problem with Middle East Studies: A Microscopic Investigation

Source: History News Network

Jul 13, 2008

Summary

As one of the few pro-U.S. and pro-Israel voices in the
field of Middle East studies, I find my views get frequently mangled by others
in the field – thus I have had to post a 5,000-word document titled “Department
of Corrections (of Others' Factual Mistakes about Me)” on my website.

Usually, the precise evolution of such mistakes
escapes me. Recently, however, I discovered just how one developed in three
steps and confronted the two academics who made the errors. Their unwillingness
to acknowledge their errors illustrates the mixture of incompetence and
arrogance of Middle East studies as it is, unfortunately, too often practiced
in the academy.

(1) In “The
Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!” National Review, November 19,
1990, I wrote about some of
the reasons for Western fears of Muslims:

Muslims have gone through a trauma during the last two
hundred years – the tribulation of God's people who unaccountably found
themselves at the bottom of the heap. The strains have been enormous and the
results agonizi Read the full article

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