[antimedia] antimedia: With "friends" like these....

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With "friends" like these....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167802433.shtml


   ....who needs [1]enemies?

     American Professor Natana DeLong-Bas: 'I Do Not Find Any Evidence
     that Would Make Me Agree that Osama bin Laden Was Behind the Attack
     on the Twin Towers'
     On December 21, 2006, the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published
     an interview with Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas, who taught this year in
     the Department of Theology at Boston College and in the Department
     of Near East and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. [1] In the
     interview, she said that Wahhabism is not extremism and that the
     Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyed Qutb have nothing to do with
     jihadism. Dr. DeLong-Bas also indicated that there may be a Western
     conspiracy against the Arab and Islamic world, and said that she
     knows of no evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the 9/11
     attacks.
     In 2004, DeLong-Bas published her doctoral dissertation in book
     form under the title Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to
     Global Jihad. This book, published by the Oxford University Press,
     has been highly recommended by the Saudi Embassy in Washington,
     D.C. [2]
     According to the book's jacket, "Ibn al-Wahhab was not the
     godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a
     voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic
     thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in
     which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful
     co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations."

   This is what passes for scholarship in modern academe.
   And you wonder why young people are confused......

References

   1. http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD140607