A Dishonest review about Islam
[cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/06/04/obama.mideast.reactions/art.thu.speech.afp.gi.jpg caption="President Obama, speaking in Cairo, Egypt, urges a new chapter in ties between the U.S. and the Muslim world."]
Eboo Patel
For On Faith
washingtonpost.com
Whoever selects and assigns the books on Islam for the Sunday New York Times Book Review needs to widen his reading and add some new names to his rolodex.
Last week there was a rave review of Bruce Bawer's alarmist book Surrender (the subtitle says it all: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom).
This week, the cover of the Book Review has a picture of a group of fully covered Muslim women set against a crowd of 'normal-looking' mostly-white Europeans with the headline "Strangers in the Land".
The review betrays more about the opinions of the reviewer – the noted and controversial academic Fouad Ajami – than the book under consideration, Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe.
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