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> [But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/but-september-11-marked-a-big-change-in-the-sense-that-the-public-was/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

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## More by Juan Cole

> [Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/partisan-politics-has-no-place-in-the-classroom/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/take-the-decision-in-early-march-to-arrest-muqtada-al-sadr-it-was/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/public-interest-in-most-of-the-middle-east-was-slight-at-that-time/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-speak-urdu-quite-a-lot-too-and-i-read-a-lot-of-persian/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-don-t-accept-the-argument-of-people-like-david-horowitz-that-the/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/did-you-know-that-they-introduced-the-15-percent-flat-tax-on/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-also-argued-before-the-war-that-the-administration-was/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/if-you-put-your-politicians-up-for-sale-as-the-us-does-alone-in-this/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/to-the-extent-that-the-isis-s-advance-is-a-series-of-urban-revolts/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-think-that-there-s-been-an-unfortunate-tendency-for-right-wing/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-think-it-s-really-unfortunate-that-academics-have-been-sidelined-in/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/but-september-11-marked-a-big-change-in-the-sense-that-the-public-was/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/i-lived-in-the-muslim-world-for-10-years/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/my-main-expertise-is-in-the-past-but-if-i-have-to-extrapolate-into/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

> [It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-cole/it-s-not-proper-for-a-professor-to-go-before-a-class-and-promote-one/)

[Juan Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-cole/)

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