The author refuted what V.S. Naipaul said about Islam being a disaster for Asia as it wiped out all the public cultures of the countries it conquered. He gave Egypt and Spain as examples of the fact that Islam did not wipe out the cultures of the countries it conquered but interacted with them. He concluded that it was true that Naipaul had compiled many great literary works. Still, his racist attitude towards Islam should have made the Swedish Academy reconsider awarding him the Nobel Prize, especially in view of the attacks in America and their consequences.