Well you're entitled to your own opinion,it's a free country after all. Too bad you can't have such an opinion in those oppressive terroristic Muslim countries you keep cheering for. In fact they'd kill you for it, you ignorant dipshit.
Nobody said these would be nice placed to live.
We just wondered, why are we constantly getting into wars over there that don't benefit us so the Zionists can pretend their Magic Sky Fairy still loves them.
You're getting into wars because Muslims want to invade everywhere, and shove their religion and culture down the throats of the entire world. We are dealing with a medieval mindset while the rest of the world exists in the 21st century.
It's a Clash of Civilizations. There is no other way to describe it.
Bernard Lewis,
FBA (born May 31, 1916) is a British-American historian specializing in
oriental studies who is also known as a
public intellectual and
political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge
Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at
Princeton University. Lewis' expertise is in the
history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the
Ottoman Empire.
Lewis served as a soldier in the British Army in the
Royal Armoured Corpsand
Intelligence Corps during the
Second World War before being seconded to the
Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the
University of London and was appointed to the new chair in Near and
Middle Eastern History.
Lewis argues that the Middle East is currently backward and its decline was a largely self-inflicted condition resulting from both culture and religion, as opposed to the post-colonialist view which posits the problems of the region as economic and political maldevelopment mainly due to the 19th-century European colonization. In his 1982 work
Muslim Discovery of Europe, Lewis argues that Muslim societies could not keep pace with the West and that "Crusader successes were due in no small part to Muslim weakness." Further, he suggested that as early as the 11th century Islamic societies were decaying, primarily the byproduct of internal problems like "cultural arrogance," which was a barrier to creative borrowing, rather than external pressures like the Crusades.
[1]
In the wake of Soviet and Arab attempts to delegitimize Israel as a racist country, Lewis wrote a study of
anti-Semitism,
Semites and Anti-Semites (1986).
[1] In other works he argued Arab rage against Israel was disproportionate to other tragedies or injustices in the Muslim world: the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and control of Muslim-majority land in Central Asia, the bloody and destructive fighting during the
Hama uprising in Syria (1982), the
Algerian civil war (1992–98), and the
Iran–Iraq War (1980–88).
[19]
In addition to his scholarly works, Lewis wrote several influential books accessible to the general public:
The Arabs in History(1950),
The Middle East and the West (1964), and
The Middle East (1995).
[1] In the wake of the
September 11, 2001 attacks, the interest in Lewis's work surged, especially his 1990 essay
The Roots of Muslim Rage. Three of his books were published after 9/11:
What Went Wrong? (written before the attacks), which explored the reasons of the Muslim world's apprehension of (and sometimes outright hostility to) modernization, and
The Crisis of Islam, and
Islam: The Religion and the People(published in 2009).
american army in Vietnam, I just think he suffers from PTSS caused by withdrawal CB symptoms
