Unveiling Islam: An Inside look at Muslim Life and Beliefs
By Ergun Mehmet Canner
Emir Fethe Canner
Krergal Publications
$11.99
251 pp.
Reviewed By Khalil Abdel Alim
Since the violence in recent years among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, many books have been written attempting to explain Islam. Some of them have been polemical, written by those who wish to discredit Islam and show that their religion is superior.
By Barbara Ehrenreich.
Metropolitan Books
$23.00
220 Pages
"No one ever said that you could work harder-harder than you ever thought possible -and still find yourself sinking deeper into poverty and debt." Barbara Ehrenreich.
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated
By Gore Vidal
Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books
160 pp
$10.00
Reviewed by Khalil Abdel Alim
Gore Vidal who has written twenty-two novels, five plays, many screen plays, more than two hundred essays and a memoir is an American political and social iconoclast. He continues on that path in this small book about the current political atmosphere in the United States.
By Bernard Lewis
Oxford University Press
$23.00
180 PP
Reviewed by Khalil Abdel Alim
The question in the title is not rhetorical nor is it an adjunct to the current phrase sparked by the events of last summer, “Why do they hate us?” It is rather a question posed by many thoughtful people including Muslims in regard to the decline of Muslim civilization and the condition of most Muslim states today.
The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians: Why it has always failed and why it will fail again.
Reviewed by Khalil Abdel Alim
By Caleb Carr
Random House
$19.95
271 pp
“(T) errorism, in other words, is simply the contemporary name given to, and the modern permutation of, warfare deliberately waged against civilians with the purpose of destroying their will to support either leaders or policies that the agents of such violence find objectionable.” Caleb Carr
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