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August 22, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6A8C0D52-478E-4265-A613-0DA902D8B173

Book Review: Chasing a Mirage

[FrontPageMagazine] David Solway - The real strength of Tarek Fatah's Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State resides in its stout opposition to the wholesale takeover of Islam by feuding warlords, the devastation it has wreaked among its own peoples, the intrinsic conviction of the supremacy of Arab over non-Arab Muslims, and the duplicity of current Muslim leaders. Fatah takes the measure of the Muslim Brotherhood and its covert operation to infiltrate the Western public space. All this, in his estimation, is a betrayal of the true spirit of Islam - as is the "Islamist dream" that repudiates "this world for either a fictitious past or the promissory notes of paradise in the hereafter."

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