Western academic study of Islam is no friend to Muslims. Take it from me as someone who was in Western academic Islamic Studies. The whole project of Islamic Studies is to do to Islam what they did to Christianity: dismantle it by claiming it is a human invention used to ...

... manipulate people. This is why so many Muslims go into academia and come out as disbelievers. Others come out confused or as deviants. This is not bc academia has good arguments against Islam. Quite the opposite!

It's bc of an inferiority complex and misplaced ...

...deference for the "prestigious academy."

So no Muslim should praise academia as some sort of objective source of knowledge. Yet, a few unfit imams/ignoramuses do praise academia even while admitting that they themselves experienced shubuhat due to their time in academia.

These fools are too in love w/ themselves to realize that by heaping praise onto academia & working w/ academics, theyre simply exposing the Ummah to the trash that caused them their crises of faith!

If they could stop praising themselves for 1 min, they might see their folly.