John:

I made no such claim. I said that academic pursuits tend to be liberal -- in other words they broaden the horizons and make one more aware of the comonalities among different groups, the similarities between religions, and the values of interaction and tolerance, as distinguished from the virtues of profit, war-making, and controlling people.

This has nothing to do with "liberals" in the political sense which is a word which has been so distorted and twisted as to have lost all meaning.

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