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To: carranza2 who wrote (45083)	9/18/2002 11:20:21 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the reply, c2. I find it a bit strange that you've already hung Kepel out to dry without reading him. But then I see that you plan to do so. Keep us posted on your views. Lacquer, as you write, is an expert on "terrorism". Which, of course, doesn't make him an expert on Islamism. I'm not certain just what his level of expertise is there. But it's closer to Kepel's field of Islamism than Bernard Lewis' more general ruminations about Islam as a civilization. Your point about not accepting Kepel as gospel is one with which I vigorously agree; nor should one accept Lewis as such either. Perhaps we can agree on that point. I frankly find well-sourced journalists with a passion for the subject much more informative than scholars interested in publishing some grand scheme which is subject to immediate and sudden correction. I don't know whether you meant to include Lacquer as a journalist since the above sentence precedes a sentence about Friedman. But I find they have different uses. I agree and disagree with each. However, in my journalists, I prefer folk who have inside knowledge and will make that inside knowledge public, to folk who tell me what to think.