Wednesday, November 09, 2005

The Claremont Institute: Islam and Europe's Future

"Islam and Europe's Future

By Paul Marshall

Posted November 9, 2005

A review of

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel

Globalized Islam: the Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

Gilles Kepel is a professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, a member of the research faculty of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a prominent French public intellectual, and is consulted by French President Jacques Chirac. His The War for Muslim Minds seems to be the fusion of three books. The middle section is chaotic but insightful, the beginning and end are chaotic and incoherent."

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