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To: JohnM who wrote (45341)	9/19/2002 12:35:33 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The problem with the Emerson Kepel comparison is that they are talking about two different but related topics. I only skimmed the Emerson so if my recreation is wrong, let me know. You're wrong. There is a comparison but only to the extent to which the layman/journalist laboriously researched facts while the other, more academically pretentious one, did not. Don't know how you can tell me I was "wrong" for including Emerson when by your own admission, only skimmed a fairly long factually dense interview in which he details what he learned about American Islamists. His experience--which is richly supported by facts--suggests that Kepel could have reached the same conclusions if he had bothered to delve into them as deeply as Emerson did. The more astute Laqueur clearly saw through this flaw in Kepel's work. You seem to have utterly misunderstood my point, a point I went to great lengths to explain in my previous post. Arrrrgh! I'm beginning to suspect that you are consciously obtuse in an attempt to provoke me. I'm probably wasting my time with you.