Ibn Warraq’s Defense of the West By Ian Jobling

Previous articles on the Inverted World have argued that some of the distinctive characteristics of Western culture are openness to new and foreign ideas, the capacity for self-criticism, and the drive to discover the objective truth about the world. In his erudite book Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, Ibn Warraq, a Pakistani expatriate now living in Europe, paints in brilliant color the portrait of the West that my articles only tentatively sketched. On top of that, the book delivers a powerful blow to leukophobia, or the fear and loathing of the white race, by demolishing the theory of Orientalism developed by Edward Said, the late Columbia University professor, pro-Palestinian activist, and guru of the destructive class.

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