Daniel Pipes in Christian Science Monitor Daniel Pipes, a controversial Middle East scholar, wrote that "Arabic-language instruction is inevitably laden with pan-Arabist and Islamist baggage."
Kevin Barrett in NewsByUs As a Ph.d Islamologist and Arabist I really hate to say this, but I'll say it anyway: 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam. The war on terror is as phony as the latest Osama bin Laden tape,wrote Barrett.
Ralph Peters in News Hounds (blog) Peters said, "this is the old, discredited Saudi Arabian, Arabist view of the world," and "to be in the middle of a grave series of wars and to have this panel without a single retired military officer to lend his common sense to the...