Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy: Inside the Strange World of Militant Islam - Hardcover

Ryan, Kevin J.

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9781591025078: Radical Eye for the Infidel Guy: Inside the Strange World of Militant Islam

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ISBN 10: 1591025079 ISBN 13: 9781591025078

Publisher: Prometheus, 2007

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Are you tired of hearing that Islam is a religion of peace while terrorist plots are uncovered, beheadings of prisoners are broadcast on the Internet, and carnage in Iraq has become routine? Are you fed up with the politically correct whitewashing of the obviously grim realities of radical Islam? Kevin J. Ryan uses sardonic humor and a streak of radical irreverence to expose Islamist ideology for what it really is and to help you develop your own Radical Eye. Combining the debunking zeal of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason with Mad magazine's irreverent view of history and politics, Ryan has written the most politically incorrect - and funniest - book on radical Islam that you're ever likely to read.

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About the Author:

Kevin Ryan has spent nearly twenty years as an editor and writer of movie and television tie-in books. He is the author of ten books, including the nationally best-selling novelization of the feature film Van Helsing and the critically acclaimed Star Trek trilogy, Errand of Vengeance. He can be reached at theradicaleye.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

For those who prefer their global threat analysis laugh-free, this treatise on the dangers of Islam-punctuated with lists like "The Crusades vs. the Jihad: Battle of the Holy Wars"-might be worth skipping. Ryan's cultural study attacks the notion that Islam is "a religion of peace and tolerance," making a bold case outlining Islam's direct threat to Western culture and democracy. Ryan characterizes the Muslim world as "ruled by hatred, casual murder, medieval-style torture, and a nearly pathological misogyny," and his study of it "heartbreaking, infuriating, tragic and almost comical in its extremism and contradictions"; as such, his tone of beleagured outrage works perfectly. Though Ryan's pointedly inflammatory rhetoric can grate, he covers plenty of ground, including the honor killing of Muslim women by their own fathers and brothers, state-sanctioned execution for those who convert from Islam and, of course, suicide bombing. Ryan can undermine his own arguments with simplistic answers to complicated questions (Did 9/11 happen "because we let our women wear shorts, go to school, drive a car, and go to work? I think it was a large part of it"), but his fearless look at the troubling aspects of Islam is informative and provocative.
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