What's So Great About America (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
CHAPTER ONE 1 “Notes Found After the Hijackings,” New York Times, 29 September 2001, B-3.2 John O’Sullivan, “Volatile Ideas That Bombs Can’t Destroy,” San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 October 2001, G-1.3 Nada El Sawy, “Yes, I Follow Islam, but I’m Not a Terrorist,” Newsweek, 15 October 2001, 12.4 Hendrik Hertzberg and David Remnick, “The Trap,” New Yorker, 1 October 2001, 38.5 Joseph Lelyveld, “The Mind of a Suicide Bomber,” New York Times Magazine, 28 October 2001, 50.6 “Don’t Count on Muslim Support,” The American Enterprise, December 2001, 11.7 I understand the limitations of the term “fundamentalism,” which refers to a specifically American Protestant movement to return to biblical fundamentals. I use the term here to refer to Muslims who are seeking to return the Islamic world to a purer version of Islam unadulterated by non-Islamic ideas and influences.8 The Koran, trans. N. J. Dawood (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), 186.9 Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), 183.10 Bernard Lewis, The Muslim Discovery of Europe (New York: W.
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