Reddit reviews The Satanic Verses: A Novel

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Off the top of my mind, specific books they've mentioned that I've enjoyed:
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-Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens

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-Open Letters by Vaclav Havel

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-The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1926-1939 by Antony Beevor

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-So You've Been Publically Shamed by Jon Ronson

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-Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe



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I'll try to remember more and add to it as I can recall them.

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-Ghost Wars by Steve Coll

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-Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

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-Both Ian Kershaw and Richard Evans' accounts of HItler, Germany, and the Third Reich in WWII

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-Moynihan did a long interview in Vice about Karl Ove Knausgaard, so I would imagine maybe he's a fan

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-Bad Blood by John Carryrou

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-The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

For whatever reason, you seem to have trouble acknowledging that there are bad Muslims and that it's no small number and that the number of sympathetic Muslims is an even larger number.

And, I don't respond to comments about the Catholic or Christian church. It's a deliberate red herring to talk about anything that is not the subject, which is the condemnation of a religious cult that continues to produce Islamists and Jihadists from within the ranks of conservative Muslims.

You continue to bring up red herrings such as Catholicism and even Black Lives matter when really, you could benefit by reading some books, which I doubt you have.

Might I suggest reading the following (all of which I've read):

• Malala
  
• Islam by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
  
• Heretic, Infidel and Nomad, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  
• Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
  
• Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  
• The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  
• Or at least watch one of Sam Harris' videos on Islam or the liberal left
  
• Or maybe watch Bill Maher's interview with Muslims feminist Asra Nomani
  
  But, you're not going to because you're too busy being right. You're too busy condemning anyone and everyone who dares say anything about any number of Muslims or their death cult called Islam. You're too busy telling people they're bigots or Islamophopes yet you refuse to do your due diligence and pick up a book and read about what's going on out there in the real world.
  
  You're too busy blaming us privileged white folk that you're blind to what is going on. People like you are the reason why I'm no longer a liberal.
  
  In answer to your question, what course of action should be taken...not war. The only course I can find is unthinkable. It is based on an assumption that nobody on the left will ever accept. It is that Islam, in it's current form, is not compatible with Western democracy. Until it is, or until we kick them all out, then we will continue to see more of the same.
  
  Until Islam changes, (read Hirsi Ali's book Heretic to find out how it needs to change) we will see more murdering of innocents.

And thus, Salman Rushdie received a fatwa for titling his book The Satanic Verses and using them as metaphor in his novel of fiction.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Satanic-Verses-Novel-ebook/dp/B004KABDMA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1348345835&sr=8-1

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