Let me respond first by noting that Said's influential book is indeed deeply flawed, and in Terry Eagleton's apt phrasing,... [MORE]

Shashi Thandra

Dec 19, 2007 02:50

To quote: "...question of how one avoids ethnocentrism without also collapsing into a toothless cultural relativism that remains mute to... [MORE]

Jerzy Kaltenberg

Dec 22, 2007 05:14

To argue against you, Mr. Kaltenberg, I hope you won't mind that I quote you quoting me. "...The argument... [MORE]

Shashi Thandra

Dec 22, 2007 14:48

heheh -- first you admit that Said is deeply flawed. But then you claim that post-colonial theory which was invented... [MORE]

Mohsen

Dec 22, 2007 22:59

How is thinking about violence, both epistemic and bodily, a utopian project? And what is the teleology of this project,... [MORE]

Shashi Thandra

Dec 23, 2007 13:48

You say, "Producing a false picture is precisely "how" the imperial project was accomplished." I thought it was, rather, because,... [MORE]

georgesdelatour

Dec 23, 2007 18:28

There are several important arguments you bring forward and I would like to address them in the order you make... [MORE]

Shashi Thandra

Dec 24, 2007 18:59

There are several important arguments you bring forward and I would like to address them in the order you make... [MORE]

Shashi Thandra

Dec 24, 2007 22:17

personally i've always had difficulty with the distinction, east and west. where does west become east exactly? when did this... [MORE]

rob windsor

Dec 18, 2007 18:30

Minor quibble, but please note that Asoka was not a Mughal emperor. I doubt if Warraq could have made such... [MORE]

omar ali

Dec 18, 2007 14:41

The review does not say that Ashoka was a Mughal emperor. Strictly speaking he was not Indian. He was Mauryan. [MORE]

Jim Bonner

Dec 18, 2007 23:13

""'Orientalism,'" Mr. Warraq writes, "taught an entire generation of Arabs the art of self-pity … encouraged the Islamic fundamentalist generation... [MORE]

Michael Manion

Dec 18, 2007 12:17

If you knew anything about the Islamic 'Bertrand Russel' by the name of Ibn Warraq, he traces Muslim self-defeatism and... [MORE]

Hamid

Dec 21, 2007 08:31

Edward Said's comments of course need critiques, so I enjoyed reading this article. Leaving aside my personal opinions, which were... [MORE]

Luther Obrock

Dec 18, 2007 11:06

I congratulate Mr Weiss for bringing Mr Warraq's writing to our atention. It would have been stunning if Mr Warraq... [MORE]

Anthony Steyning

Dec 18, 2007 09:24

The mention of Ashoka as a Mughal emperor gave me a small heart attack. He was a Mauryan emperor, who... [MORE]

Arun Vasudev

Dec 18, 2007 08:32

Mr. Warraq is correct in many ways. He reveals the truth that Edward Said was an intellectually dishonest analyst of... [MORE]

Roberta E. Dzubow

Dec 13, 2007 13:10

In my own work I both critique and make use of Said and his thoughts about colonialism. I cheer at the... [MORE]

Suzanne Oliver

Dec 18, 2007 10:57

Aren't there non-Western, that is, Asian, victims of Islam? How are Muslims who convert to other religions treated by the...

Tony

Feb 18, 2008 19:12

Nicely written article by someone who knows something (Weiss) reviewing a book by one of the bravest intellectuals alive (Ibn... [MORE]

mhw

Dec 13, 2007 08:52

Not accurate or focused! More later. [MORE]

Allen Tobias

Dec 12, 2007 21:41