November 26th, 2011

Challenging Islamic Law


Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think


Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think


$13.79


In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the world’s Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself? Who Speaks for Islam? spotlights this silenced majority. The book is the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization conducted tens of thous…

How Obama Embraces Islam's Sharia Agenda (Encounter Broadsides)


How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda (Encounter Broadsides)


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While Americans focus on terrorism, a more insidious Islamist threat to our way of life lurks. It is the agenda of sharia, Islam’s authoritarian legal and political system. The global Islamist movement aims, in the words of the international Muslim Brotherhood, to destroy the West by sabotaging it from within. Its principal strategy is not mass-murder but the exploitation of Western freedoms and…

The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East


The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East


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In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind–in living standards, technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize economically as the West surged ahead. What caused this long divergence? And why does the Middle East remain drastically underdeveloped compa…


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