There are many faults with this book and if you can believe it a ton of them are grammatical and language related, it bothers me so much when a publishing house does not care to edit their books efficiently specially when it is an Arab publishing house, I hate how it reflects on the Arab literally arena, that is so limited as it is. This book is written in response to the Egyptian revolts and this medical student turned writer decided that he wants to preach on how to maintain progress post-Mubarak and post-revolution, but he does not even know what kind of progress the country actually needs, it seems to me that what he did was a little research to support his arguments and ended up presenting most of what he came up with as a result in his book as his own thought process. I do not like how his voice switches between authority and dictatorship, he does not apply logic to his preachings he merely preaches for the sake of preaching, when you take on an authoritative voice you must understand that for it to be successful it must not only hold authority, because the power of authority has many levels to it. It is one thing to be able to maintain authority over the weak minded but to give your voice legitimacy you need to captivate and gain the respect of those of us that were not born followers, those of us that understand critical thinking and logic separately, those of us that exist outside of the bubble of faux unity.
I do not like how he says “the Muslims” studied the stars etc., no Muslim scientists studied the stars and developed Astronomy, do not rob scholars of their rights, their not any ordinary civilians and their scientific urges albeit it inspired by the teachings of Islam in its nature of motivating Muslims to observe the world and revel in its majesty it is not some kind of magical spell that gave Muslims scholarly knowledge once they have subscribed to the faith. I swear so many Muslims are so delusional and love-struck with the Islamic movement and its accomplishments that they live in a fake nostalgic comma, wake the fuck up and accomplish something TODAY, the past is in the past.
The author also talks about how “Islam gave a vivid example of how racism can be ended”, now my question then to the author how come Islam did not end racism then? How come racism is alive and well in the Arab world, how come it thrives within Arab communities? meanwhile our Western counter-parts are proving to be working harder with every generation to eradicate this disgusting phenomena? If Islam is the cure to racism how come Arab Muslims who already have two giant identifiers in common, discriminate against one another all the time? The truth of the matter is that Islam is flawed and the sooner Muslims that consider themselves true believers realize that, the sooner we can develop an Islam that is relevant to the world we live in, the sooner we realize that Islam needs an update and tons of modifications the sooner we can join civilisation and leave the dark ages behind.
The author goes on to spew a lot of pious bullshit that if you had any clarity, you could easily see through, I think this book was terrible on many accounts but I think that it is important for people that are not tainted by biases and blinded by nostalgia or effected by any form of brainwashing to read through so that we can understand the mindset of these people and how to counter them and how to exist along side them.
Source of the review: Her
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