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A friend of mine recommended that I read Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Even as a Muslim living in a Muslim country and a native of another Muslim country I found the book very interesting. Perhaps because I had never thought about the fact that Muslims come from very different countries and backgrounds. The analysis is simple, thorough and straightforward and impressive. The data is deep and can be viewed as a very credible source to an insight to Muslim thoughts. With only five chapters tackling:
By begining by explaining who Muslims are, what they believe and how different they are, the book sets the pace for the rest of the book and introduces the non Muslim to reality. Data which was gathered by the polls clear many misconceptions even tho they might seem intuitive or sensible. The poll’s results prove that Muslims want democracies in their countries, political radicals make up only 7% of the population and women want to be treated fairly not necessarily equally. Interestingly there are also lots of common views shared by Western poll takers with the Muslims which is not surprising, at the end of the day we are all human and share common needs, dreams and wants. From the book:
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Imagine a book that tells the tale of four girls’ lives, loves and losses. The setting is in the city Riyadh of Saudi Arabia. Girls of Riyadh At the beginning of the book you start reading the emails of one of the girls, you don’t know which one who has decided that she will tell their story, using a Yahoo group called “Seereh Wenfada7et”. Immediately you are drawn into their lives. Perhaps it is general curiosity of how other people live their lives especially young women. Maybe it is the setting, Saudi Arabia, which is very different than any other country. Coming from a different world where freedom is a taken for granted, it was strange to think about how different my life would have been like if that freedom was taken away. What kind of person would I have been if I did not have the chance to experience all of the things that I have? Then again I was very lucky, my parents, even though they are religious people and that is where they have always drawn the line (Halal and Haram) where probably the most open minded parents around. They encouraged education, intellect and culture. They wanted us to learn, to read and to explore. Before them, my grandparents did the same for their children. So perhaps it is a mindset more than anything else. The book is rich with culture and tradition. The author is very descriptive and makes you feel that you are a welcome yet slightly perverse voyeur into their lives. I liked the story and would recommend it as light reading. Maybe because the author is still young I felt that it lacked a certain depth to it but I can’t exactly put my finger on it, or maybe it is just the fact that the book was originally written in Arabic and something is always lost in translation. What I didn’t like was the naivety of the girls, but that is not the author’s fault that is how growing up like how they did would do to them. They did sort of grow up on the pages and some of them matures. Have you read this book? What did you think? You might also like
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a couple of weeks ago. She sent me a message saying:
