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A carregar... How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terrorpor Reza Aslan
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. No time for a real review, as usual. Short Version: Informative and well-written. Not an academic treatise, but instead written for those who follow the news closely, but would like a little more insight. Invaluable for presenting important distinctions typically glossed over in standard news and feature coverage (especially the difference between Islamism and Jihadism). This was a good review of recent history and the issues related to the rise of al-Qa'ida and the U.S. response. I'd like to see Aslan revisit his argument in the post-Arab Spring environment and the challenges the Muslim world is currently facing as some countries try to adopt democracy and Turkey grows more authoritarian under an Islamist party. I'll have to see what he's written lately. If one were writing for a creative writing course, this book would serve the purpose & it is quite creative...except that the author insists on being taken seriously. With its usual tripe about perceived grievances & illusory historical dreams, it becomes nothing more than propaganda literature attempting to pass itself off as true history rather than historical fiction. The author repeats gossip & rumors in order to paint a very different picture of who's innocent & who's guilty yet history stands against him as a glaring light exposing inaccuracies & dishonesty he writes. Like Michael Belisiles' Arming America, this book serves as an example of those whose "axes to grind" sounds like a nonmusical person attempting to pass himself off as a concert violinist. Maybe he should stick with creative writing as this is his forte. I enjoyed this much more than his history of Islam, which was too boring to bother finishing. This has a stronger conceptual framwork that all the tidbits of history and anecdote serve to fill in with color. My thinking about political islam is much clearer now. Make sure you read the critical reviews of the book, though---there were many. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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