- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Key Porter Books (Sep 24 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1554700876
- ISBN-13: 978-1554700875
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #96,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1993 Samuel P. Huntington turned conventional political wisdom on its head by arguing in a provocative essay that the secularized West and the fundamentalist Islamic world were destined to clash?a clash of civilizations.
At about the same time, veteran journalist and foreign policy expert Eric S. Margolis was arguing virtually the same point?but from a unique vantage point: inside and on the ground in the Muslim world itself.
American Raj: Liberation or Domination? is the culmination of all those years of feet-on-the-ground reporting and analysis?many of them spent actually fighting alongside mujahedeen?as well as a lifetime of insight into the complex reality of the way the Muslim world really operates. It is a masterful synthesis of experience and insight that answers the most pressing questions we in the West confront: Why does the Muslim world distrust us? Is the idea of a secular Muslim world?especially one based on the western model?realistic? Has ideology blinded Western powers to both political and historical reality? Is accommodation between these two ideological adversaries possible?
What can be done to prevent a clash of civilizations?
American Raj: Liberation or Domination? takes the reader behind the conventional headlines and into the thinking and world view of anti-Western Islamic radicals throughout the Muslim world, and identifies the historical, political and religious factors that have played such a huge role in generating Islamic hostility towards the West.
Employing the model of Britain’s imperialist hegemony in Asia, which culminated in the eighteenth-century Raj, Margolis explores in fascinating detail whether the West?and in particular the United States?risks a repetition of the Raj experience or whether we face an entirely new?and entirely unfamiliar?world order.
About the Author
ERIC S. MARGOLIS is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles appear in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune,and The Los Angeles Times.He is a regular columnist with The National Post and he often appears as an expert on foreign affairs on CNN, Fox News, CTV, and NPR. His internet column reaches 100,000 readers a day and is carried around the globe
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Islam and the West - No reason to choose sides,
By Suhail Zubaid AHMAD "Suhail Zubaid-Ahmad" (Mississauga, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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Watching FOX TV programing and reading newspapers, I have frequently heard questions like why is that in the present times, each and every conflict in the world seem to involve Muslims. Is there something wrong with them? This book has enabled me to find an answer for this very question. Most writers of the books on Islam as a religion and the West demand that you take a side. However, in my opinion, there are no sides, only knowledge that should help to bring hearts and minds together.This book walks us through the early history of Islam, Muslim contribution towards scientific and knowledge based development, destruction of Muslims' research work by Tatars of Ganghis Khan (that Margolis very interestingly calls 13th century equivalent of nuclear bomb), West's and Russia's colonization of Muslim lands, movements of freedom by Muslims from time to time, the problems that Muslims have faced in the recent past and the present, such as Palestine, Afghanistan, Chechniya, Balkans (Bosnia and Kosova), Iraq, Iran, Lebenon, Algeria, Egypt, Kashmir, the War on Terror, etc, and finally a realistic roadmap recommended by the author for bringing harmony between Muslims and the West. I have always liked reading columns by Eric Margolis that get published in Toronto Sun every Sunday. However, this is his first book that I have read and I have no hesitation in stating that it is the best book ever written on the theme of 'clash of civilizations'.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A Wonderful Read by an accomplished columnist and war correspondent,
By Tom Johnsson (Plattsburgh, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Hardcover)
Eric Margolis has provided a wonderful overview of the history of the mistakes made by our western governments with their wrong headed policies toward the Muslim world. If we had planned to make a mess of it, we couldn't have succeeded better! We have weakened our allies and strengthened our enemies. We have wasted our treasure and squandered our opportunities. Will our leaders please listen to Mr. Margolis before it's too late?
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Essential reading on modern history,
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This review is from: American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Hardcover)
This book shines as true guiding light and should be made part of curriculum of every educational institution. Definitely a required reading; anyone who misses on this one will forever be lost and remain ignorant of world around him/her
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