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have you seen his new book?

Reader comment on item: Omid Safi's Closed Classroom

Submitted by Concerned (United States), Nov 17, 2009 at 18:11

Take a look at Safi's new book just released, Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters. I was reading the introduction through the free preview on Amazon's site. I found the second paragraph on page 4 to be especially telling of his way of "labeling" the opposition.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061231347/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

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Daniel Pipes replies:

Thank you for pointing this out. And I note that he feels compelled to call me names in it. How edifying. As is well known, if you can't win an argument, call out the insults.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
have you seen his new book? [48 words]
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ConcernedNov 17, 2009 18:11164685
2I had Omid Safi as a professor [189 words]JoshDec 19, 2007 21:18116615
2To Omid's pupil, Josh [181 words]lsamMar 22, 2008 19:34116615
keep up the good work [83 words]billJan 1, 2007 00:3071286

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