Ignorance of Islam By Travis Kavulla

I was in Cambridge, Mass., in February of last year when I heard the latest from Iraq: The al-Askari Mosque, the so-called “Golden Mosque” of Samarra, had been nearly leveled in a devastating explosion.

That night, I attended a regular, rather casual seminar on the works of Cantabrigian authors, led by a prodigious member of Harvard’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department. The professor arrived late to class, and was not in the mood to talk about T. S. Eliot when he did. “Do any of you know what the Golden Mosque is?” he asked. Blank stares followed, punctuated only by the eager nodding of my roommate, whose passion is the Middle East.

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