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The Middle East and Islamic World Reader: An Historical Reader for the 21st Century
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Middle East and Islam specialist and author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007). Oct 30, 2013 - While any objective appraisal of the 7th century Muslim conquests proves that they were just that—conquests, with all the bloodshed and rapine that that entails—the historical revisionism of modern academia, especially within Arab and Islamic studies departments, has led to some portrayals of .. As with his Cairo speech, Obama's reading of the historic Turkish-Western interaction (and its attendant implications) was disastrously flawed. Jul 29, 2013 - Director, Islamic World Studies Program DePaul University Readers beware that this text is an adventure. The Holocaust was the greatest crime against humanity in history and was founded on centuries of anti-Semitic sentiment whipped up by extremist nationalism throughout Europe. An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century Ed. Transforming America's relations with the Islamic world has been perhaps the foremost foreign policy issue through which President Obama has sought to set himself apart from his immediate predecessor. By McCloud, Hibbard and Saud – An Muslims and American Islam. Condensing the Exec Summary, I know this has limits; those Older, With less or little direct interaction with Jews, less education and located in either Middle East or Eastern Europe score higher in anti-Semitic views. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges, and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history.” Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East. We found that laws restricting apostasy and blasphemy are most common in the Middle East and North Africa, where 14 of the 20 countries (70%) criminalize blasphemy and 12 of the 20 countries (60%) criminalize apostasy. This historical pattern, interacting with institutional and cultural arrangements (not solely Islamic religion) forged largely by both Ottoman and European rule, leads to political and social dynamics affecting U.S. Apostasy laws are less common worldwide – found in 21 countries, in only three regions of the world. Another citizen with reading comprehension problems. 3 days ago - Weather: Sydney 12 °C - 21 °C . Aug 18, 2013 - I doubt we've exhausted all the alternatives yet, and we will likely make more costly and ugly mistakes before we finally find our feet in the new world of the 21st century Middle East.