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Dr. Timothy Furnish is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Perimeter College where he specializes in Islamic/Middle Eastern History, World History, and African History. His PhD is in Islamic History and he is the author of Holiest Wars: Islamic Mahdis, their Jihads and Osama bin Laden (Praeger, 2005). As a result of his focus on Islamic history, Dr. Furnish often comments on the crusades and much of his commentary can be found online. Dr. Furnish is unique among scholars and commentators on Islam and the crusades as he is a former U.S. Army 101st Airborne Arabic interrogator who is a vocal conservative. For example, concerning the status of Middle Eastern Studies and its many current controversies, Dr. Furnish has endorsed Daniel Pipes' efforts to combat perceived liberal pro-Islamic biases in various Islamic studies. His endorsement can be found on Daniel Pipe's website in which he writes, "Daniel Pipes' Campus Watch has assumed the status of 'a voice crying in the wilderness' against the political correctness, intellectual dishonesty and trivial pursuit that passes for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in most of the American academy today. May this voice be heard until that post-modernist wasteland bears fruit!" [Continued...] Dr. Timothy Furnish How the Media Misconstrue Jihad and the Crusades History News Network, January 13, 2003. Dr. Timothy Furnish Seven Myths About Islam History News Network, October 10, 2005 Dr. Timothy Furnish: Why I Am Appalled by Abu Ghraib History News Network May 12, 2004 Faculty Page Dr. Timothy Furnish Georgia Perimeter College (c) Andrew Holt, November 2005- Permission is granted for electronic copying and distribution in print for educational and personal use. No permission is granted for commercial use.