Muslims have long practiced self-criticism within their own languages under their own names

Evidence

Ibn Warraq’s ruse conceals a long line of Muslims who have written courageously, imaginatively, and above all caringly against the atrocities in their own religion and culture, in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, or Turkish, and all under their own names. Throughout history, Muslim societies (like all other societies) have been afflicted with any number of pressing problems. Over a long and tumultuous history, Muslims have been divided into sects and factions by their convictions and proclivities. Like Jews, Christians, and Hindus, they have been at one another’s throats since the time immemorial—jurists against theologians, theologians against philosophers, philosophers against mystics, revolutionaries against rulers, radicals against liberals against conservatives. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 435

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reading on Islamophobia and the Western framing of Muslim critique as inherently dangerous. — connects to: The established language already contains the terms for its own critique — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 702

Related

• Islamic doctrine has always been internally contested and reinterpreted (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim intellectual critique long predates and exceeds Islamophobic polemic. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamic civilization sustained vibrant internal doctrinal contestation and humanism. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamic intellectual history is diverse, contested, and humanistic (similarity 0.83)
• Every anti-Islamic charge already has a long indigenous Islamic intellectual history. (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim societies have always been internally divided like all others. (similarity 0.81)
• Ibn Warraq’s catalogue of critics contradicts his claim no Muslim challenged doctrine (similarity 0.81)
• Ex-Muslim critics abroad worsen anti-Muslim racism and shield the West. (similarity 0.80)
• Insular academic language on Islam enables public charlatans (similarity 0.80)
• Radical and subversive thought has always been integral to Islamic history (similarity 0.80)
• Ibn Warraq marketed himself as the first secular Muslim doubter of Islam (similarity 0.80)
• Native informers embody self-hatred by personifying what they denounce (similarity 0.80)
• Native informers can undercut their own thesis by citing evidence against it. (similarity 0.80)
• Scholarly discourse about Islam can facilitate media dehumanization of Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• A critic of the Quran can publish on it without knowing Arabic (similarity 0.79)