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Book Banning and the Middle East Studies Association [on "Alms for Jihad," Khalid bin Mahfouz, Cambridge U. Press, Juan Cole]

by Michael Rubin
The Corner at NRO
August 6, 2007

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGFlNzNmMjBjN2IzNGI3ODY5ZWMyZjc3YzE3MWFjZDY=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3805

Just an addendum to Stanley Kurtz's postings on Cambridge University Press' banning of Alms for Jihad. The Middle East Studies Association's Committee on Academic Freedom has yet to raise it as an issue. They do not seem to understand the damage they do to the notion of academic freedom when they conflate it with their own narrow notion of political correctness. This isn't MESA's first bout with hypocrisy: They have yet to condemn Iran's renewed threats against author Salman Rushdie and they decline to take up the matter of university professor Juan Cole seeking an FBI investigation of a professor who had beat Cole out for a television commentator spot.

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