<p>miami</p>
<p>you deny </p>
<p>"that Islam is a complext entity, evolved over more than a thousand years and across a thousand miles, and can’t be adequately studied by watching TV for several hours? "</p>
<p>Really. and you dont get this out of any book. You refuse to read a book that might disagree with what you have learned in life. Your life has given you direct, empirical knowledge of islam over the last 1300 years. You must be quite old, then. </p>
<p>“It is not just a sponge that absorbs ideas of others.”</p>
<p>Being a sponge is NOT how you learn macroeconomics, earth science, or intellectual history. It is unfortunately, how many people learn the know nothingism that is so widespread today.</p>