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Article: Sivan assesses radical Islam in Cornell speech
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- December 3, 2001
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Yoni Levine
University Wire
12-03-2001
(Cornell Daily Sun) (U-WIRE) ITHACA, N.Y. -- In his Friday talk at Cornell University titled "The Third Wave of Radical Islam," Prof. Emmanuel Sivan of Hebrew University placed the events of Sept. 11 in the context of historical rises and retreats of radical Islamic movements in the Muslim world.
Sivan was introduced as a renowned Israeli scholar and political adviser on radical Islamic movements and the author of a widely used textbook on the subject.
At the lecture, he criticized media and politicians for associating radical Palestinian terrorist groups and Saddam Hussein's anti-Americanism with organizations such as Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
Sivan ...