[fireman43]

The fact that Buruma writes for al-Guardian and is an avowed Marxist should have automatically had this book written off as garbage.

I am surprised that somebody as astute as Dalrymple would even dignify Buruma by reading it.

[Ready4Freddy]

Perhaps Dalrymple subscribes to the theory that:

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

The fact that Buruma writes for al-Guardian and is an avowed Marxist should have automatically had this book written off as garbage.