... a place where Irf injects some much needed spice and chilli in discussions about Muslims.
The University of Auckland has just announced that it is setting up a specialist centre to teach Islamic Studies. Good on them.
I hope they advertise for teaching positions. I know of someone who would be perfect for the role. He also is very enthusiastic about the goals and motivations behind such centres.
You don't believe me? Here is his scholarly endorsement recently posted on facebook.
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I am "far-right" the way Geert Wilders ... is(Comment on a book review I wrote for The Australian. Mate, you said it. Who am I to argue with you?)
... I can see why Irfan Yusuf got the 2007 Allen & Unwin Iremonger
award for public affairs writing: he's slick.
A nasty attack by an Australian blogger named Irfan Yusuf has appeared(From an update on Mr Pipes' blog dated 21 February 2008. No, Mr Pipes, I would never jump on you. I just don't find you physically attractive!)
... Yusuf jumps on me ...
... should send a signal to responsible media everywhere to decline his tendentious writings.(I wonder if, by "responsible", he means that tiny fringe of newspapers and websites happy to print his claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim apostate and attended a madressa? Or that wearing a sarong is "a garment associated with Muslims"? Or that extremists make up 10-15% of the Muslim world population? Well, Mr Pipes, I wouldn't want to pollute my reputation by writing for those kinds of media. You can have them all, mate!)
