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Shaykh Dr. M. M. Azami writes,

"Returning to Orientalism, let us take one quick case study. In his Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence Schacht writes,

"I feel myself under a deep obligation to the masters of Islamic studies in the last generation. The name of Snouck Hurgronje appears seldom in this book; yet if we now understand the character of Muhammadan Law, it is due to him."

But who was Snouck Hurgronje? An Orientalist whose agenda was to deceive the Muslim masses of Indonesia into accepting the Dutch government's colonialist exploitation: "Islam is the religion of peace," he preached,

"and the duty of the Muslims according to the Sharl'a is to follow the order of the [Dutch] rulers - and not to disobey and commit violence"

Traveling to Makkah to further this mantra, he alleged himself a Muslim to -WID broader popularity without sacrificing the full scope of his ambitions.

Edward Said notes the "close cooperation between scholarship and direct military colonial conquest" inherent in "the case of the revered Dutch Orientalist C. Snouck Hurgronje, who used the confidence he had won from Muslims to plan and execute the brutal Dutch war against the Atjeyhnese people of Sumatra."

After all this, he is considered a Western pioneer of Islamic Law.

The point is clear. While those accused of unfavorable remarks towards Judaism are roundly denounced, ostracised, and very members of Jewish intelligentsia who condemn Strugnell's prejudices are themselves apathetic to Israeli bigotry against Muslim culture and Muslim artefacts. Meanwhile the far greater prejudice of Hurgronje and a host of other colonialist agents and clergymen - manifesting itself not simply in words, but in deception and direct military subjugation - is casually overlooked, and their status in Western spheres as 'Orientalist pioneers' remains untouched."