but poliakov's views haven't he has said a lot of postiive things about muhammad e g that muhammad was very resepectful towrds the jews infact i have yet to verify the source in which poliakov accuses islam of anti semitism in anycase bernard lewis is an exceptional scholar because he is a scholar both on islam ic history and antisemtism mark cohen is also a scholar on jews under islam most of the rest of the scholars quoted are either scholars on islam or antisemitism