Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history.

Evidence

The figure of Abdullah ibn Saba, a Jewish convert to Islam, for example, has always been affiliated with the rise of the Shi’i branch of Islam, by far the most messianic tendency evident in the faith. There is no blasphemy Ibn Warraq can produce that does not already have a long and rather varied Islamic social and intellectual history. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 483

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that criticism must come from within a tradition echoes MacIntyre’s tradition-constituted enquiry and debates about insider versus outsider critique.

Related

• Islamic intellectual history already contains every claim native informers recycle as new (similarity 0.88)
• Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.85)
• Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history (similarity 0.85)
• Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.85)
• Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.83)
• Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.80)
• Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• An introspective self-critical turn marked a new era in Christian thought about Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Fabricated Hadiths reflect healthy cultures, with Muslim scholars policing authenticity (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Islamic polemic often rests on secondhand citation of texts authors cannot read. (similarity 0.79)
• Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.79)
• Islam is integral to but not definitive of Muslim literary cultures (similarity 0.78)
• Philological criticisms of Islam’s origins were read as Zionist or Crusader conspiracies (similarity 0.78)
• Islamic studies remains exempt from scholarly norms applied to other fields (similarity 0.78)