Akbar Ahmed

This is about a piece in yesterday's New York Times by Akbar Ahmed.  He was a Muslim that the British government could like and was awarded with titles and honors by the British establishment.  He is one of those Muslims that make Westerners suffering from anti-Muslim prejudice to feel comfortable with their prejudice.  I mean, who but Ahmad would consider the hearings by Peter King (which will feature Walid Phares as an expert on Islam)?  And who would treat Muslims as colonized people who are not submissive enough to their colonizers?  And Ahmed who came to the US relatively recently want to hector and preach to American Muslims (who had lived in the US from early on) and to teach them how to become good Americans.  How patronizing and insulting.  But I will say this about Ahmed the "scholar".  I in fact have read most of his books.  He is consistently shallow and devoid of insights.  He is somebody who comes up with good titles for books but empty contents.  To judge him: read his book: Post-modernism and Islam.  You pick the book up and think that it should be an interesting work only to find that it has nothing to do with post-modernism.  But then again: I really believe that Westerners really enjoy the company of those natives intellectuals who are weak and--how to put it--not very bright.  I mean that. Ahmed fits the bill.