Archive for the ‘Review’ Category

How “European Islam” Will Complete the Global Muslim Caliphate

Friday, May 8th, 2009

A “You Complete Me Alert” –Bat Ye’or’s New Book Soon Available in Italian (See this Apropos Video Clip: The Dark Knight-The Joker “You Complete Me” for more click hee

Predicting the death of Islam

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

A grim assessment of Islam’s survival prospects concludes this book-length essay by a prominent Iraqi politician who recently served as minister of defense and finance in the American-backed Iraqi government. Unless Muslims can restore Islam as a “complete way of life” embracing the public as well as the private sphere, for more click here

Digging for victory

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Reading this novel is like watching an Olympic athlete about to win the gold: the seamless flow of action, the mastery of technique, seemingly effortless yet demanding attention and eliciting admiration as an end in itself. Not that Barry Unsworth’s writing is morally neutral, like pole-vaulting or a foot-race; the book in fact bears a quite heavy burden of moral meaning. But the story is so thoroughly adapted to expressing that meaning, so tightly organised, so concentrated in its forward drive towards its goal, as to suggest the athlete’s perfect indifference to anything outside the goal. for more click here