IntroductionOrientalism as described by Edward Said aims to raise awareness of a constellation of erroneous assumptions that underlie Western attitudes towards Muslim societies. Evidence from his 1978 book "Orientalism" indicates that the culture has been influential and controversial in postcolonial studies and other fields of study. Furthermore, researchers are surrounded by persistent and subtle biases, Eurocentric in nature, which run counter to Islamic religion and culture (Windschuttle, 1999). In his book, Said argues that the long existing tradition containing romanticized images of Islamic stronghold regions, namely the Middle East, and Western culture have long served as implicit justifications for European and American imperial ambitions. In light of this, Said denounced the practice of influential Arabs who contributed to the internalization of ideas from Arab culture by American and British orientalists. Thus, his assumption that Western studies of Muslims was historically flawed and essentially continues to distort the reality of Muslim people. Instead, Said quotes: “As far as the United States is concerned, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that Muslims and Arabs are essentially seen either as suppliers of oil or as potential terrorists. Thus, very few details such as human density, the passion for Arab-Muslim life have entered the consciousness even of those whose job revolves around reporting on the Arab world. For this reason, we have instead a series of crude and essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression” (Said, 1980). Never...... middle of paper. .....claims that no European or American scholar could know about the Orient are widely criticized by Landow, however, in his opinion, everything Europeans and Americans did resulted in acts of oppression . Furthermore, Said is considered a person who never agreed to accept the opinions of other researchers which he would use to integrate them into his analysis. According to Landow, he considers this the greatest sin committed by a scholar of Orientalism (Landow, Nd). Using Daniel M. Varisco's insightful satirical critique to defuse what has become an acrimonious debate, he reviews extensive critiques of Said's methodology. and his extensive use of the critiques of Foucault and Gramsci, he argues that the politics of polemic must be overcome to advance the academic debate on the real cultures of the region once imagined as an "Orient" beyond the binary blame game..