Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic.

Evidence

In his tenth chapter, Ibn Warraq delivers another catalogue of Muslims—mystics, philosophers, and scientists—who have categorically denied the Quranic revelation. Then what is he doing in English that Muslim intellectuals have not done for centuries and continue to do today in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Urdu, with their own names proudly adorning their writing—and above all with an unfailing love for the people who share their destiny? Ibn Warraq is nothing more than a court jester, flailing his motley and bells to amuse his fantasies of the White House and the Pentagon. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 474

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the ADDENDUM angle for the essays on immodesty/culture wars — internal critique existing within a tradition before external condemnation.

Related

• Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.86)
• Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names (similarity 0.86)
• Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.85)
• Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine (similarity 0.84)
• Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.84)
• Insular academic language on Islam enables public charlatans (similarity 0.83)
• Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history. (similarity 0.83)
• Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history (similarity 0.81)
• Ibn Warraq argues Arabic fluency is unnecessary for valid critique of Islam. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic intellectual history already contains every claim native informers recycle as new (similarity 0.80)
• Ibn Warraq condemns apostasy in Islam while unable to read its primary sources. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Islamic polemic often rests on secondhand citation of texts authors cannot read. (similarity 0.79)
• Ibn Warraq’s recommended sources are dominated by religious and nationalist extremists. (similarity 0.79)
• Scholarly discourse about Islam can facilitate media dehumanization of Muslims (similarity 0.78)