In a book called In Theory --a wholesale slaughter of the sacred cows of the postmodern Western intelligentsia--the Indian Marxist literary critic Aijaz Ahmad raised further questions about Said's mastery of his sources and accused him of self-aggrandizement and insufficient political discipline.
Aijaz Ahmad does not have anything nice to say about Said.
They  would  feel scared if the rug was  about to  be pulled out from under them.