Muslimpundit at Winds of Change.NET is no fan of author and "professor" Edward Said. He notes that Said's writings have received stern rebuttals in the past, of which among the most notable are by Bernard Lewis and Keith Windschuttle.

More recently, Ibn Warraq also joined the fray. Having written and edited some excellent books on the origins of Islam, Ibn Warraq has now turned his attention towards the Saidian polemicists and penned a rather exhaustive essay decrying, as Muslimpundit puts it: "the pretensions of Edward Said towards harbouring any conceptions of intellectual scholarship." Now there's some criticism with bite!

See the full rundown and link set on today's Winds of Change.