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=> Dr Joseph...scholar, academic, author

Dr Joseph...scholar, academic, author

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…and “lying traitor” to us. Shame on us.

The first paragraph of the Acknowledgements in his book “Muslim Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East”, gives the measure of the man…as well as showing us what cheap goods we are made of when we slander him, also what our real motives are; fear. Because his books take away our toys.

“The preparation of this monograph has been made possible by two major grants. A stipend from the Joint Committee on the Middle East of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies made possible travel and research in Europe and the Middle east in 1966-67. A fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humantities enabled me to devote the year 1979 to the writing of this work. None of these donors, of course, are responsible for the opinions expressed herein; neither do their generous grants mean an endorsement of the positions that I have taken.

Franklin and Marshall College made available freed time through sabbatical leaves, and the college’s Faculty Committee on Grants has generously helped my travels and research both here and abroad during the past few years.”

Just remember what we call this man…how we think to slander him but wind up insulting ourselves, which is all the “national work” we have ever done.

The following is taken from the book’s preface:

“In his excellent study of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople; the Great Church in Captivity”, Sir Steven Runciman writes that we shall get nowhere if we denounce the Greeks as deceitful or the Turks as savage. Erudition, he wisely notes, will not produce understanding unless it is tempered with tolerance and freed from prejudice, no matter what the historian’s personal tastes and sympathies. When a study involves, as my work does, Turks and Armenians, Jews and Arabs, Maronites and Muslims, Syrian Orthodox and Kurds, as well as Catholics and Protestants, the fair-mindedness of historians is subjected to the supreme test. We soon realize that we are working within the glass house of history, often tempted to throw stones, especially if we let ourselves be persuaded by partisan ‘documents’ and ‘original sources’. Fair-mindedness and thorough investigation finally convince us not to shatter the shelter of glass”.

This is the man and scholar we dare to call names…while we lap up Aprim’s atrocious nonsense and Rosie’s purple prose because they play to our prejudice.

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