Non Investigation of trends in Medieval Christianity by Asian Scholars

[Nagarjuna]

Dear All,
I recently had the ocassion to revisit an old post of Eddie and the
numerous discussions regarding Christianity and its vice like grip on
claims to modernity, civilization and contemporaniety.
And I re-read the comment made by Eddie regarding "What is surprising
is that Muslim or other Asian scholars (Buddhists, Hindus, or
Christians) have not investigated whether the label applies to the
Christians or to their scriptures."
While Eddie's comment was maybe pointed towards the use of the word
"extremism" by Christainity and large sections of West I would be
interested in examining the question if at all there has been any
valid equal footing debate on questions other that extremism.

If indeed this comment of Eddie turns out to be true and corroborated,
then I feel that it throws up very interesting and disconcerting
questions for scholarship and cross cultural biases in established
academic practices prevalent in the Western humanities disciplines.
For the while I would not like to comment on why it may be the case,
if it is so, from the point of view of Asian scholars.
Colonialism, demise of North Indian, Pali and Sanskrit languages from
their living, critical and functional role in Asian societies may be
to blame !
I do know references have been made to Edward Said and French
theorists with a view to dissolve the Orientalist - Occidental,
Eastern - Western debates into rarified highground.
Is this really the case that Asian scholars have been lulled into
ignoring trends in Medieval Christianity or just been defeated by the
immensity and futility of the enterprise of critiquing Christianity as
a Western commodity export in lieu of land, tea, sugar, cocoa, rubber,
oil, weapons ?
Regards,
Nagarjuna