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I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

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But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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