07.19.09
Booknotes: Karen Armstrong vs Brigitte Gabriel
It is essential to steer clear of the disastrous side to so-called Islamophobia, CAIR: U.S. Leaders Asked to Address Growing Islamophobia, but at the same time, a demand for the facts is not a form of bias! The bias of Muslims is also great.
I have been critical of Armstrong’s take on Islam, but perhaps it is only a PR exercise against bias. But what are the real facts?
I was just looking at Brigitte Gabriel’s Because They Hate, a book I would normally reject out of hand, but somehow ended up reading, after speadreading it standing up at Barnes & Nobles, curiosity got the better of me after seeing the book had three hundred plus reviews at Amazon. So, while I very much dislike the right-wing quagmire into which the author falls, no doubt in part due to bitterness, it is a factual account of what happened in Lebanon as the population balance passed the threshold, resulting in the destruction of Lebanon. Is it realistic to expect such an outcome in the West? I don’t know, but outcome in Lebanon must be on the minds of many in a period of rising so-called Islamophobia.
Ken Olson said,
July 20, 2009 at 8:29 am
Glad you are beginning to read HISTORY. We have been mislead for 50 years. This is not by accident. Please read one of Robert Spencer’s earlier works “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). You will be amazed at how HISTORY was fed to us and how things actually happened. For example, you have heard of the Barbary Pirates of the 19th century. But di you ever hear of Muslim Barbary pirates? No mention of their religion was ever made. But TODAY the very same tactics are going on off the Barbary coast. It is time we use HISTORY to learn how we got here today.
Darwiniana » History, and histories, of Islam said,
July 20, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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