"Misreading Islam
By Michael Hirsh, Washington Monthly. Posted November 12, 2004.
The disastrous war in Iraq is the consequence of a fundamental misunderstanding of Islam and its strong relationship to democracy in the Middle East.
America's misreading of the Arab world – and our current misadventure in Iraq – may have really begun in 1950. That was the year a young University of London historian named Bernard Lewis visited Turkey for the first time. "
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