Ibn Warraq’s recommended sources are dominated by religious and nationalist extremists.
Evidence
His last act of treachery is to give his readers the addresses of no less than 114 websites devoted to hostile and racist attacks on Islam, plus numerous books he deems harmful to Muslims. Of the 114 addresses he gives (is that one for each chapter of the Quran?), 29 have been set up by Christian fundamentalists; 13 belong to anti-Muslim Hindu nationalists; eight belong to anti-Palestinian right-wing Zionists; and the rest are equally hostile to Islam and Muslims. From such an assortment of websites this champion of reason and historical truth wishes his readers to achieve a scholarly understanding of Islam. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 534
Related
- Ibn Warraq condemns apostasy in Islam while unable to read its primary sources. (similarity 0.81)
- Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.79)
- Insular academic language on Islam enables public charlatans (similarity 0.79)
- Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-Islamic polemic often rests on secondhand citation of texts authors cannot read. (similarity 0.79)
- Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine (similarity 0.78)
- Ibn Warraq argues Arabic fluency is unnecessary for valid critique of Islam. (similarity 0.78)