I want you to beg borrow or steal in order to buy this book, if you are a Muslim. The book is a literary review, an overarching discussion of all books about Islam in today's world. I have begun to understand the great fear of the new Europeans when confronted by the Muslim culture. It's a case of identity crises. At a time when Europe is trying to come up with a distinctive new identity, the last thing it needs is to try and absorb a very different and distant Muslim identity. How does an Europe deal with the guilt of colonialism and the Holocaust, not to forget the hundreds of years of crusades? The Jews are not so numerous and have already cashed in by claiming Israel for themselves, but what about the millions of colonists? Interestingly it is exactly this payback mentality shared by a number of Pakistani immigrants in UK. 'Time to get our share back for what they have taken away from us,' is how they justify their continued existence in UK over and over again.
This book presents both sides of the arguments categorising various authors and presenting the gestalt of their discourse on a platter. It is difficult not to admire this format as a Muslim for the shear number of explanations included between it's covers.
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