[cajungirl]

amazing review,,he damns her but admits he agrees. And to compare Islam which routinely beheads, stones, issues fatwas to TEXAS is ridiculous.

He seems to have forgotton that Islam wants to wipe out the jews, a class of which he is a member.

At the moment they behead this sucker, I hope he remembers this review.

She is on target and I agree with her. I have often thought the roots of the perversity of Islam lie in the family,,the separation of boys from their mothers, the demonization of women, the strangeness of the male culture which is homosexual at its heart.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Islam’s denigration of women means no matter what this culture achieves, it can only be half as much as the West’s...

[kabumpo]

VERY VERY VERY homosexual, the religion and the culture. SIckening.

[Enchante]

"...we should try to have a conversation about Islam and its genuine problems — while speaking out against over-the-top exaggerations about the East. This memoir, while engaging and insightful in many places, exemplifies precisely the kind of rhetoric that is overheated and overstated.

beheadings, stabbings, shootings, beatings of countless thousands, no millions, of human beings simply for their BELIEFS ..... hundreds of millions living under threat of immediate DEATH for religious deviation..... Christianity, Judaism, and other religions being largely EXTERMINATED in many Muslim-dominated countries.... apparently Kristof never heard of freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of belief...... never mind any outward displays of freedom....

how many hundreds of millions of young girls must be subjected to forcible clitorectomies without even anesthesia before Kristof might think the "conversation" about Islam is a bit weak????

I suppose that Kristof would have chided Voltaire's "ecrasez l'infame" (erase or destroy the infamy) as a bit too strident, too (I'm no Voltaire scholar, but I gather that his views of "l'infame" to be crushed were primarily about eliminating religious persecutions and state control of religious belief rather than an assault upon all religious belief and practice).