I just got an email (from a coward with a false email address) with that in the subject line. The body of the message, however, merely quotes Carl Ernst’s guilt-by-association attack against me by attacking my publishers, which I disposed of a few days ago in speaking about Omid Safi, who also linked to Ernst’s attack.
Ernst can point out all the connections he wants. I’ll even acknowledge them: my books have been published by conservative publishers — except for the latest, The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, which is published by Prometheus Books, an outfit that cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called conservative. (For some reason the liberals mostly don’t seem interested in this issue; for details, see my book Onward Muslim Soldiers, particularly the chaper entitled “Everybody must get stoned: The strange alliance between radical Islam and the post-Sixties Left.”) But for objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and academic content, I will happily stand up my books to his anytime. For him to pretend that an academic press and an academic position confers objectivity upon him in these days of Ward Churchill and Shahid Alam, not to mention my man Omid, is beyond ridiculous.
Ernst, of course, is to the best of my knowledge not a Muslim, so the subject line of this message should actually have read: “DHIMMIS ARE EXPOSING YOU…” Or trying to, anyway.
And re “Islamophobia,” see here.