Middle East studies in the News

B.U. Prof Terrorist Apologist [on Augustus Richard Norton's Hezbollah book]

by Candace de Russy
Phi Beta Cons (NRO)
July 30, 2007

http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmRhZmJkMGRhNmI5YjRmNDhhNDc3NDljNDc3NDE1MjE=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3772

From the Jerusalem Post:

Here we go again: yet another American "scholar" who apologizes for an Islamist terrorist group. With Hezbollah: A Short History, Augustus Richard Norton, a Boston University professor of international relations and anthropology, has joined the ranks of dozens of US academics who inexplicably teach the kinder and gentler side of terrorists.

Norton states he seeks to provide "a more balanced and nuanced account" of Hezbollah, which he calls a "complex organization." Of course, there is little that is complex or nuanced about a group that receives an estimated $100 million a year from the radical Islamic regime in Iran to carry out violence, and has used violence as its raison d'etre dating back to the 1980s.

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