Columbia University lost its bearings and reputation when it took big bucks from the Islamiicsts to hire Edward Said and call him professor. The chair that bears his name is one of lies, a la kitman and taquiia - the Muslim directive to lie to non-Muslims. Edward Said spawned the likes of Rashid Khalid. These and their brother jihadists is other universities that sell their souls to Islamic propagandists are a blight on Western Universities. They are there to try to brainwash academe. They’ve been at it for forty years. Some slightly deranged among non-Muslims were brainwashed to hate themselves, their religion and their country. Critical thinking and a course in logic would have served them better.
Once the apologists took over the field of Islamic Studies, the ‘Greek-studying of the Barbarian’ nature of Western anthropologetics and archaeology disappeared. There was no inherent skepticism and dispassionate study anymore.