On Juan Cole's blog, Steven Scholl writes:
The picture that [Martin] Amis and others paint of Muslim culture
(wife beating, anti-intellectual, not curious about the world beyond their borders, militant and religious authoritarian in style) just doesn't jive with what I have experienced.<
except perhaps for the bit about wife-beating, doesn't the parenthetical description apply to Dubya? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
