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Confessions of an Islamaphobic
Lawrence of Arabia was one of my all-time favorite movies. I took two semesters of Islamic History and Culture at Georgetown from a professor in the Foreign Service School many years ago. I regarded Muslims as natural allies against Soviet Communism. But none of that interest and sentiment changes my understanding that the Islamic political and cultural vision is a stagnant anachronism whose sheer inapplicability can only result in futility and violence. The recent “caliphates” created in chaos are the political and cultural equivalents of Jurrasic Park and unfortunately completely consonant with the essence of Islam.
John Kennedy had to make a strong speech in front of a convention of Protestant ministers to assuage suspicion of