Who speaks for Islam?
May 1, 2008
Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed has received a mixed review. Its proponents claim this is “a must-read for pundits and policy makers, specialists and non-specialists, American or Muslim,” quoted in the back cover.
Others believe the book is a fraud “of which Esposito should be ashamed. So too should the Gallup Organization, its publisher,” says Hillel Fradkin in his devastating review.
Martin Kramer goes further and claims, ” Professor John L. Esposito runs a slick operation at Georgetown with $20 million of funding from Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The shared agenda of these two is to make us all feel guilty for having wondered, after 9/11, about Saudis, Muslims, and the contemporary teaching of Islam.
May 1, 2008 at 5:47 am
And what is your opinion? Have you read it or do you plan to read it?
May 1, 2008 at 6:18 am
Esposito is for the beginners in multiculturalism.
May 1, 2008 at 11:34 am
In my dictionary “multiculturalism” ia already a dirty word. Do you mean it in this sense?