Insight on the News interviews Daniel Pipes. A sample:

Insight: Do you think there is a relationship between Middle Eastern scholarship as it has been conducted in the universities in the United States and Europe and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11?

DP: Yes, indirectly. Scholars have been apologizing for militant Islam and dismissing its terrorist activities. They proclaimed militant Islam a source of democratization and civil society. Before 9/11, academics routinely dismissed such a catastrophic scenario as the one that happened as ridiculously far-fetched. Regarding militant Islam, we find that the scholars in Middle East studies have shown a conspicuous lack of judgment.

Love him or hate him, Pipes has been correct too often to be dismissed out of hand.

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