Lewis was no scholar objectively committed to
historical truth. Quite the contrary: He has left behind not a single
book in which he was not cherry-picking facts and figures to demonise
Muslims, dismiss and denigrate their civilisation, and subjugate them
normatively, morally, and imaginatively to the colonial domination of
those who he served.
No one was more instrumental in manufacturing the illusion of a fundamental and irreconcilable difference between “Islam and the West” than Lewis – his singular achievement that later Samuel Huntington picked up to produce The Clash of Civilizations.
This needs no further evidence and proof than looking at who is praising him after his death. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Dick Cheney, the former vice president]
The MESA Debate: The Scholars, the Media, and the Middle East featuring Edward Said and Bernard Lewis.
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