European Orientalism

I really am an admirer of European Orientalist training. Of course, there have been political problems but some aspects are still admirable. I say that having finished Laurence Louer's Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. This book carries the best of the fruits of European Orientalism: rigor, language training, immersion in local cultures, and sophisticated analysis, and attention to what is written in local languages. You compare that to American or Israeli Orientalism. I mean, Israeli Orientalism still relies on Hawadith Magazine and now on MEMRI's selection of articles from the Saudi website of sleaze.