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As some ardent followers of Donald Trump have recently pointed out to me, reading books about Islam, as well as knowing Muslims, traveling and/or living in Muslim countries, and simply knowing too much about Islam and Islamic history, can bias the person who’s guilty of such things and render him or her unqualified to have a worthwhile opinion about Muslims and the islamic world.
I’ve already posted this link once before:
http://www.theonion.com/article/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou-17990
But that was quite a while ago, it seems exceptionally appropriate right now. Thanks to Andrew Heiss for reminding me of it.