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The Unbearable Advocate

Posted by: Ion | April 29th, 2007 · 12:56 PM

You may have heard, but a kerfuffle has arisen between noted critic of Islam, Robert Spencer, and noted apologist for Islam, Karen Armstrong. Armstrong apparently read Spencer’s The Truth About Muhammad recently. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s a systematic condemnation of Muhammad’s entire life, legacy and theology. Karen takes virtually any criticism of Islam very personally and thus she wasn’t pleased. She published a furious rebuke of the book in the Financial Times, here.

Unfortunately, in her fury she made several significant errors of fact. Particularly with respect to Quranic citation. She also substantially misstated Spencer’s views in many respects. This is a curious approach to take, in that if you wish to establish that Spencer is hostile to Islam and thus religiously “bigoted” you really needn’t exaggerate or modify his remarks much. At any rate, Spencer quite rightly pounced on these faults, here.

Things look to get worse between the two, but my side was chosen in this fight before it even began.

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