They often outstep the limits of academic criticism and in attempt to paint the Muslims black, resort to assertions, which it would be only too mild to call ‘intolerant.”‘ Ahmad wrote in the same book: “Islam has been misunderstood and misinterpreted in the West. It is one of the most queer facts of history that despite the annihilation of space and time, despite the West’s stupendous strides in quest of knowledge and learning, despite the centuries of contact between the world of Islam and the West, Islam is perhaps the least known and the most misunderstood religion in the West.”
