Hi David -
This article here
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6565
analyses the methodology of the study, conducted by researchers from the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Columbia University
School of Nursing, and the College of Medicine at Al-Mustansiriya University
in Baghdad. I've read others by people who know their statistics, and they
all concluded the methodology was scrupulous. As I said, this study was
widely discredited by the UK and US governments, surprise surprise surprise.
I know quite a few Christian Arabs. And quite a few who don't claim any
religion at all. So your generalisation strikes me personally as very
inaccurate, as bad as generalising all Muslims as fanatical fundamentalists.
And if anyone understands the ethnic complexities of the ME, I would suggest
it would be Robert Fisk.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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