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The brilliant scholars of Syracuse University
By yaman | June 8, 2007
This time, Laurence Thomas of Syracuse University has written a post called “Angry Muslim Arabs and the Black Man” (as if the response he got to his earlier post about there being no Muslim marches for peace was based on the fact he is black). In it he talks about “so-called oppressed groups” (what, you think oppression still exists in America?), and mentions a link to his blog from The Angry Arab News Service:
However, at the site
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/,
my claim of 1 billion Muslims was viciously slammed.
If the name of the blog is any indication, then the author is a Muslim
Arab. I, on the other hand, am neither Muslim nor Arabic. From this
it is supposed to follow that anything I say that is at odds with what
the author of the site claims can be roundly dismissed.
Now, I think this is pretty funny. In his first post, the headline originally claimed that there were 1 billion Arabs. He later changed the title without leaving a notice, but talks about it as if it always read “1 billion Muslims.” Then, to prove his point that he never thought that Arabs and Muslims were the same, he looks at the title of the Angry Arab blog (”The Angry Arab News Service”) and concludes that…. the author must be a Muslim. Funny, since anybody who spends more than 30 seconds looking through the front page of this website immediately knows that the author is areligious and staunchly secular.
Yes, here is a scholar qualified to talk intelligently about Muslims and Arabs. After all:
This is why I own and have read such works about Islam as Le licite et l’illicite en Islam by Youssef Qaradhawi and L’Ethique du Musulman: Les fondements de la morale by Mohammad Al Ghazali. This is why I own and have read Les Nouveaux Martyrs d’Allah by Farhad Khosrokhavar, as well as many books regarding the issue of the veil for Muslim Arabic women.
Because nowadays Qaradhawi and Ghazali are representative of what all Muslims around the world believe and perform. And if you want to know Muslims, all you have to do is read those 3 books.
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