Campus Watch in the Media

Bernard Lewis on the Crisis in Middle Eastern Studies

by John Leo
Minding the Campus
May 2, 2008

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2008/05/bernard_lewis_on_the_crisis_in.html

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5065

Minding the Campus posts Campus Watch's latest Quote of the Month:

"...Middle Eastern studies programs have been distorted by "a degree of thought control and limitations of freedom of expression without parallel in the Western world since the 18th century, and in some areas longer than that... It seems to me it's a very dangerous situation, because it makes any kind of scholarly discussion of Islam, to say the least, dangerous. Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had."

- Bernard Lewis, professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, delivering the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. As reported in Congressional Quarterly, April 27, 2008.

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