No, but saying what Simon said, which after all was what I was talking about, does. Lawrence _____ From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Judith Evans Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:46 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: An American student's history of the world >Why not? A fellow Lit-Idear recently described me as >"Lawrence, the obfucation King." for producing evidence > that he was guilty of a fallacy. I don't really think saying the War on Iraq has radicalized some Muslims (and increased the number of extremists) counts as a hasty generalization, even it it is not true. Judy Evans, Cardiff