text: ‘Finally, I don't want to be rude, but I do know a lot more than you about the Middle East or Islam. I have lived in that region for 14 years, can speak some Arabic and have spent time reading books like History of the Arabs by Phillip Hitti, A History of the Arab People by Albert Hourani, and the Ottoman Centuries by Lord Kinross.’
  
  Clearly the books were poorly digested.
  
  I don’t want to pull rank with you but I was born, raised and educated in the Middle East and I speak Arabic.