RE: Fw: Anti-Islamic book

salam,

the sad part? amazon.com -- the worl's largest "bookstore" -- is selling it;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971448124/qid=1094162456/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-3902821-6336823?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

but amazon sells anything.

btw, his other book "tea with terrorists" a *novel* he co-wrote with another 
nut, is apparently a best seller with almost 4 stars;

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0971448116/qid=1094162873/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-3902821-6336823?v=glance&s=books

guess who reviews it with many stars? hehe


afdhere


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HURIYAH Publications
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>From: aliabadi <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Muslim community debate and 
>discussion<[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] Fw: Anti-Islamic book
>Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:48:27 -0400
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: aliabadi
>To: hamid tehrani ; ahmad sadri ; ahmad Sheikhzadeh ; Ali Sadegh ; Hossein 
>Kamaly ; Mahmoud Sadri ; [email protected] ; Vahid Qaravi ; [email protected] 
>; [email protected]
>Cc: Ali Karjoo-Ravary ; Amin Aliabadi ; hamid tehrani ; Hossein Ahmadi ; 
>Name Not Disclosed ; [email protected] ; 
>YADDY MEHDIZADEH
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:58 PM
>Subject: Anti-Islamic book
>
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>Salaam!
>
>The post 9/11 climate has produced so many books, articles, films and 
>television programs attacking Islam and Muslims.  Unfurtunely, the rigid, 
>fanatic, narrow minded views of some so called Muslims and the violent 
>actions of fascist groups like Al-qaeda have brought the relationship 
>between Muslims and the West back to the medieval period,  destroying the 
>effort of broad minded Muslims and the followers of other religions to 
>build a bridge between Islam and the West in the past few decades.  This 
>atmosphere not only gives an opportunity to all the ultra evangelicals and 
>extremists, but also has given a chance to ultra secularists and secular 
>fundamentalists both in the West and in the Muslim World to attack Islam, 
>Muslims and especially Muslim Intellectuals.
>
>The following book is a manifestation of many anti-Islam and anti-Muslim 
>books that have been published in English after 9/11;
>
>Winn, Craig.  Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own 
>Words.  Virginia: Cricketstong Books, Virginia Publishers, 2004.( 
>www.prophetofdoom.net 1-800-487-0568).
>
>The author claims that 9/11 provoked him to spend 10,000 hours to write 
>this book.  The book is about a thousand pages of quotations from the 
>Qura'n, Ibn Ishaq's Sira, Tabari's History and Sahih al-Bukhari.  The 
>introduction is full of the worst kind of insults and slanders to the 
>Prophet of Islam.
>
>What is happening now is the result of the failure of the Muslims to come 
>to terms with the challenges of modernity and the need to rethink the whole 
>structure of Muslim thinking. The Muslim world is plagued with a 
>religiously and culturally closed mindset, political corruptions, economic 
>decay, and freedom deficit.
>
>In the post 9/11 world, it is an urgent necessity of Muslims and, in 
>particular, Muslim intellectuals to be engaged in serious soul searching 
>and self criticism in order to envision a proper place for Islam and 
>Muslims in the modern world.  Violence in the name of Islam, including the 
>death of innocent civilians, the taking of hostages, and the outbreak of 
>suicide bombers, as well as any fascist readings of Islam must be condemned 
>without reservation by all Muslims.  Instead, Understanding and dialogue 
>with the West must be the priority.  More than ever we need an enlightened 
>Occidentalism as the West needs an enlightened Orientalism.
>
>Best,
>
>Ali M. Aliabadi
>[email protected]
>
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