Book On the Struggle Against Violent Islamic Extremist by Other Muslims

Here is a fascinating article from The Economist promoting the book, Your Fatwa Does Nor Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune.

The author is a journalist originating from Algeria. The book sounds most fascinating, and very grim.

Whether by interviewing exiles (Iranians and Somalis in America) or through touring benighted war zones, Ms Bennoune presents similarly harrowing tales from across the Muslim world. She shows that most of the victims of violent fundamentalism are themselves Muslim. Her subjects are people who found dignity and meaning in Islam, often as part of a rich local culture, but who were branded as backsliders or apostates by an invasive species of zealotry.

Readers may pine for more analysis and fewer grisly anecdotes. But Ms Bennoune is clear about some things. The West, she argues, generally underestimates the deviousness and destructiveness of Islamist movements, whether they use bullets, ballot boxes or both. She has no time for Westerners who justify the Muslim Brotherhood and its ilk as valid expressions of an aggrieved culture. Nor can she abide people who see all Muslims as global adversaries, as if a ban on sharia law in the American Midwest would make the world a safer place.

Hat tip Cult News Network.