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*** Here's a great Q & A with Bernard Lewis on Islam:

On the prospects for democracy in the Islamic world

A lot of things are being said about Islam now. There is a view, for example, that could be summed up this way: These people are incapable of decent, civilized, open government. Whatever we do, they will be ruled by corrupt tyrants. Therefore, the only aim of foreign policy should be to ensure that they are friendly tyrants rather than hostile tyrants.

We know versions of this approach produced well-known results in Central America, in Southeast Asia and other places.

To say that they are incapable of anything else is simply a falsification of history. What we have now come to regard as typical of Middle Eastern regimes is not typical of the past. The regime of Saddam Hussein, the regime of Hafez al-Assad, this kind of government, this kind of society, has no roots either in the Arab or in the Islamic past.
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On Wahhabism

Wahhabism is about as central to Islam as, shall we say, the Ku Klux Klan to Christianity.

UPDATE: Here's the full transcript, thanks to JP in the comments.

*** Who will stop German supervillains? ME! Feel free to submit costume designs. Mr. Silent ("What's your kryptonite?" "Bullets, I'd imagine. Or knives.") has a pretty swanky costume. I need something that accessorizes well with atomic deathrays.

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