After reading 22 pages into the book, this sentence made me stop and throw the book away: "I prefer Islamic Politics to either Islamic fundamentalism or militant Islam, which after 9/11 evoked Pres Bush's own militant Manicheanism....". Clearly the Canadian author has no freaking idea about the real nature of the subject he has written. There's no such thing as Islamic Politics. Maybe political Islam, but that word is just a misleading fabrication by some ignorant anti-American history prof Michael Hunt whose bias is known around the world. So yeah, I dont think this book is worthy of my time or money. Will return it to bookstore tomorrow. Not mentioning the fact that by exposing our ex-diplomat's cover in Iran as a stooge of CIA, he has put all current and future Canadian diplomatic corps around the world at risk. What a shame!