Musings on Europe and Islam

First, apologies for all the typos and spelling errors in my previous post. I really do need to use that spell checker.

I thought you might want to see this article (see link below) really a short lecture, delivered by Bernard Lewis, Professor at Princeton (tough for me, a Penn guy, to mention that, but, truth in "advertising"....). I have been reading and admiring Lewis's history of islam since 1977 - in 30 years he has only gotten better. The attached is a bit different, more an estimative analysis. Not really the domain of an historian, but it frames nicely much of what we are now about in the opening of the 21st century, 14th if you favor Islamic calendars.

http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.25815,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

oh, and here is the link to the Vanity Fair article about our new Mega Embassy.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/langewiesche200711
cheers, Ed