printWhen he’s good he’s very good. Christopher Hitchens demonstrates fairly proficiently that professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan—a “minor nuisance on the fringes of the academic Muslim apologist community”—cannot “decipher the plain meaning of a celebrated [Persian] statement and is, furthermore, in need of a remedial course in English.” (I knew the bit about Cole’s flawed English, of course.)
Cole, believe it or not, has denied that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or indeed Khomeini, have called for the removal of Israel from the map. The full account is here: “The Cole Report: When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.”