Book Review
Chasing A
Mirage – The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State.
- Author:
Tarek Fatah
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,
Canada
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Reviewed
By: Javed I.
Chaudry
The beauty of
life (and it doesn't matter whether one's a
Muslim, Kafir, Christian or Hedonist) is to see
a thing for what it is.
Among us (at
FOTH and
in the world at large) there are many who cannot
see a thing for what it is, but they can see
everything through the eyes of prejudice tainted
by a history they did not write and an ego that
is steeped in conspiracy theories.
The spectacle of
words ("demonizing Islam", "Islam, terrorism and
reality", "Western outsiders, Islamophobes and
Neocons", "We learn from the Koran", "What is
the essence of this book?") is much the same, as
are some of the personal attacks between people.
Some people seem
to know what time of day it is (as in
the spiritual evolution of our planet) just by
looking at their watch!
If it is true that the gods
of Ancient Greece have died a natural death, as
have so many other deities and religions before
and since, it is then only a matter of time
before the Abrahamic religions lose their hold
on the human mind.
In this new
phenomenon, Islam needs no one to defend it, and
no one, not even Tarek Fatah can attack it,
since God will jump in and save it if need be.
At least that's what we all
know, don't we?
Rashid Mughal
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