Meeus reply :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Alan S. Rosenbaum (United States), Mar 23, 2014 at 12:56

Dear Dr. Pipes,

Are you certain when Meeus referred to you( in Dutch, I presume) as a "money-lender", he was not using it as a slur or code for Jewish?

I hope you are well.

Alan S. Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy( and now adjunct at Case Western Reserve University)

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