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A review by hannaaaaa
The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
I highly recommend this book for everyone, but particularly non Muslims and non Middle Easterners in the current political and social climate of revenge mosque attacks and rising Islamophobia and racism towards Arabs. This book offers valuable opinions and insight into Kundnani’s own perspective without offering many answers, rather explanation as to how we found ourselves here and reflecting on the current circumstances.
It’s primary thesis proposes that the West has two attitudes to Islam, the conservative reaction to 9/11 being that Islam itself is the problem and it never experienced a cultural enlightenment, and the second, liberal, attitude being that Islam itself is peaceful and it is certain bad Muslims that have twisted it to become anti-Western. Kundnani states that the debate about Islamic terrorism has become overwhelmed by socio-psychological and theological analyses of its perpetrators, viewing it as either an Islamic or psychological phenomenon that can be explained by the teachings of the religion or the psychological states of the terrorists themselves.
Whilst offering valuable and informative perspective, The Muslims are Coming! can become convoluted with repetitive paragraphs and therefore has a slower pace, but is still an important read for those seeking to expand and challenge their own political and sociological critiques and perspectives.
It’s primary thesis proposes that the West has two attitudes to Islam, the conservative reaction to 9/11 being that Islam itself is the problem and it never experienced a cultural enlightenment, and the second, liberal, attitude being that Islam itself is peaceful and it is certain bad Muslims that have twisted it to become anti-Western. Kundnani states that the debate about Islamic terrorism has become overwhelmed by socio-psychological and theological analyses of its perpetrators, viewing it as either an Islamic or psychological phenomenon that can be explained by the teachings of the religion or the psychological states of the terrorists themselves.
Whilst offering valuable and informative perspective, The Muslims are Coming! can become convoluted with repetitive paragraphs and therefore has a slower pace, but is still an important read for those seeking to expand and challenge their own political and sociological critiques and perspectives.