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"The Myth of the Muslim Tide"

Doug Johnson has written a book called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide"...read more in the next post

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I am very glad to see that someone has taken on this issue, given the misleading, fear-mongering propaganda being desseminated about Muslims, particulary since September 11, 2001. 

 

To me, his book offers the possibility of a voice of reason, which I welcome. I have already ordered my paperback copy. The segments I've read remind me of many of the points we've covered here on the Wcafe...

 

From the website at: http://muslimtide.com/inside/

 

 

Contents
 
ONE: POPULAR FICTION
In the scribblings of a terrorist, the entire history of an idea: How a set of obscure ideas and fringe misconceptions exploded after Sept. 11 into a popular myth that overtook media, publishing, activism and mainstream politics.
 
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TWO: THE FACTS
A dispassionate look at the realities of Muslim immigration: The numbers, the growth rates, the successes (and failures) at integration, the causes and consequences of extremism and terrorism. Drawing on voluminous new research, this offers a set of facts to inform arguments — even if those facts sometimes contradict this book’s thesis.
 
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THREE: WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
Every time a large wave of religious-minority immigrants reaches the West, the same things happen. When Roman Catholics from Southern Europe and Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe reached Western Europe and North America, they encountered the same difficulties with integration, and almost exactly the same political and literary responses: They, too, were an impossible-to-assimilate alien civilization supposedly bent on takeover.
 
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FOUR: WHAT WE OUGHT TO WORRY ABOUT
To say that immigration poses no threat is not to say that all is well. Rather, we should turn our attention to the genuine problems and challenges of immigration, culture, religion and the progress of the world. That these challenges are not a deluge or an onslaught does not make them any less real.
 
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I suspect the Islamic community has more to fear from Western secularism than we have to fear from them.  Thank you for finding and posting this information.

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Thank you for this -- more BS (belief systems) for people to try out, adopt and perhaps help with anxiety and neganuance (and perhaps even be adopted as an Authority) :3

 

This one bit in Part Four "

"the Invention of the Muslim People"

 

all people are invented :3

 

It'll be inneresting to read the book

 

Again, thanks

 

 


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Thanks for that bit of sanity, especially considering some of the hatred that currently being spread around WC, by a few individuals, in God's name of course

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Here's a review of the book, for those who want to learn more.

 

http://m.straight.com/s?s=60&fid=22&a=764521&f=latest&sp=true

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Agree with others, well done. thanks Motheroffive

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Thanks for this Mof5. When I was in Ottawa I got to visit my Muslim friend who has been in Canada for about 40 years. She was going to be celebrating the end of Ramadan (sp) with her family on the 19th. I wondered how all this anti-Muslim sentiment has affected her and her family. 

 

I think I will have to add this to my list of books to read....and when I am done, I will pass it along to my other friend who believes Muslims are taking over the world.....

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I ordered a copy through my local bookstore and it should be in within a week. It seems like it might be worth running "book study" thread here on Wcafe but will bring that to the list when I've had a look. 

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