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To: Ilaine who wrote (77828)	2/26/2003 3:21:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't know enough about Islam to understand whether, or why, "fundamentalist" vs. "revivalist" matters. I think that particular passage was quoted as an example of trying to downplay Islamism as some harmless religious revival. Nor do I know enough about Pipes to understand why he seems to be arguing that one cannot be, at one and the same time, a genuine scholar and a supporter of terrorism. I don't think he's arguing that. On the contrary, he thinks half the members of MESA are genuine scholars (omitting any requirements for quality in the term) and supporters of terrorism, if only indirectly. His arguments about Al-Arian and buddies is that they were using the academy purely as a cover for their real jobs running the American chapter of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.