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Why am I even bothering?
Reader comment on item: The Ninth 9/11
in response to reader comment: Sorry, "Jacob", you have no education at all ...
Submitted by Jacob (United States), Sep 14, 2010 at 12:06
Actually I am a student at Boston University. I have taken classes on Islam and the Islamic world, with professors who are hardly liberals (more like septuagenarian former diplomats to Middle Eastern countries and Afghanistan). I am also a Jew, and a conservative. ...
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