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Ibn Warraq is brilliant. Why I Am Not A Muslim is a better apologia for atheism than Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens put together. Everything that is wrong with Arab intellectualism and right with Western intellectualism is right there in the fact that he is one of ours, not one of theirs.

Is Mein Kampf still on the Egyptian bestseller list?

Posted by Fnarf | December 18, 2007 4:48 PM
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Actually, he's really at this very green ranch in Texas, cutting brush ...

Oh, you thought the Secret Service was there for GWB?

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 18, 2007 4:49 PM
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Thanks for the link. Great article!

Posted by PJ | December 18, 2007 4:52 PM
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WHY is this article terrible, charles?

Posted by maxsolomon@home | December 18, 2007 6:59 PM
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Damn. My script of "They Cloned Saddam's Brain" just bit the dust.

Posted by Alex | December 18, 2007 10:15 PM
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@4, i greatly disagree with its reading of Said's masterpiece and its impact on cultural studies.

Posted by mudede | December 19, 2007 4:46 AM
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The article is ham-fisted and unconvincing because it lacks any nuanced criticism of Warraq, who deserves careful critical appraisal. To blame Said and postcolonial studies for "medievalism and intellectual poverty throughout the Middle East" is absurd.


Posted by Irena | December 19, 2007 10:02 AM

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