Mon. 8/20/12, 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Post your questions to my Facebook page. First hour: Lawrence Davidson argues that Mitt Romney is a contemporary avatar of the “know-nothings,” 19th century Americans whose hallmarks were ignorance, prejudice, and fear of what they didn’t understand (which was just about everything). We’ll also discuss Professor Davidson’s book Islamic Fundamentalism, which overall presents a reasonably balanced portrayal of some Islamist movements. Are some of the most “radical” wahhabi and takfiri groups really just a bunch of Muslim know-nothings endlessly manipulated by the Empire? Are there Islamic political activists out there…
FULL ARTICLEProfessor Lawrence Davidson on know-nothings, Don Meserlian on “Muslims didn’t do 9/11”
