DeAnneThe Great Fear of Islam
October 9th 2008 14:04
I'm sick to death of it. I get daily emails warning of Barack Obama's ties to Islam, and the dangers we face because of them. I guess this is like the fears of communism during the Cold War.
The latest email I received is "What Does Obama Read?" with a photo of him holding a book. The image of the book has been enhanced to show the title: "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria.
The content of the email follows:
So many closed-minded people will read this email without even bothering to find out what the book is actually about.
A review listed on Amazon.com:
And another...
A link to the Amazon.com page for this book.
PLEASE don't believe everything you read in emails. Do the research for yourself. Maybe, even read the book for yourself. You might be glad to know that the person most likely to become our next president is reading it. I'm happy to know we'll have a president who can read!
The latest email I received is "What Does Obama Read?" with a photo of him holding a book. The image of the book has been enhanced to show the title: "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria.
See what he's reading!
Pass this on!
This certainly makes me question the whole candidate and what he says!
This will open your eyes.
What does Obama read?
[photo inserted here of Obama with book in hand - enlarged view of book inserted with caption: "The most liberal (D) Nominee to run for the Presidency in American History."
....is reading 'The Post-American World' -- it's a Muslim's view.
Pass this on!
This certainly makes me question the whole candidate and what he says!
This will open your eyes.
What does Obama read?
[photo inserted here of Obama with book in hand - enlarged view of book inserted with caption: "The most liberal (D) Nominee to run for the Presidency in American History."
....is reading 'The Post-American World' -- it's a Muslim's view.
So many closed-minded people will read this email without even bothering to find out what the book is actually about.
A review listed on Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Review
Book Description
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.
Book Description
"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. When a book proclaims that it is not about the decline of America but the rise of everyone else, readers might expect another diatribe about our dismal post-9/11 world. They are in for a pleasant surprise as Newsweek editor and popular pundit Zakaria (The Future of Freedom) delivers a stimulating, largely optimistic forecast of where the 21st century is heading. We are living in a peaceful era, he maintains; world violence peaked around 1990 and has plummeted to a record low. Burgeoning prosperity has spread to the developing world, raising standards of living in Brazil, India, China and Indonesia. Twenty years ago China discarded Soviet economics but not its politics, leading to a wildly effective, top-down, scorched-earth boom. Its political antithesis, India, also prospers while remaining a chaotic, inefficient democracy, as Indian elected officials are (generally) loathe to use the brutally efficient tactics that are the staple of Chinese governance. Paradoxically, India's greatest asset is its relative stability in the region; its officials take an unruly population for granted, while dissent produces paranoia in Chinese leaders. Zakaria predicts that despite its record of recent blunders at home and abroad, America will stay strong, buoyed by a stellar educational system and the influx of young immigrants, who give the U.S. a more youthful demographic than Europe and much of Asia whose workers support an increasing population of unproductive elderly. A lucid, thought-provoking appraisal of world affairs, this book will engage readers on both sides of the political spectrum. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Starred Review. When a book proclaims that it is not about the decline of America but the rise of everyone else, readers might expect another diatribe about our dismal post-9/11 world. They are in for a pleasant surprise as Newsweek editor and popular pundit Zakaria (The Future of Freedom) delivers a stimulating, largely optimistic forecast of where the 21st century is heading. We are living in a peaceful era, he maintains; world violence peaked around 1990 and has plummeted to a record low. Burgeoning prosperity has spread to the developing world, raising standards of living in Brazil, India, China and Indonesia. Twenty years ago China discarded Soviet economics but not its politics, leading to a wildly effective, top-down, scorched-earth boom. Its political antithesis, India, also prospers while remaining a chaotic, inefficient democracy, as Indian elected officials are (generally) loathe to use the brutally efficient tactics that are the staple of Chinese governance. Paradoxically, India's greatest asset is its relative stability in the region; its officials take an unruly population for granted, while dissent produces paranoia in Chinese leaders. Zakaria predicts that despite its record of recent blunders at home and abroad, America will stay strong, buoyed by a stellar educational system and the influx of young immigrants, who give the U.S. a more youthful demographic than Europe and much of Asia whose workers support an increasing population of unproductive elderly. A lucid, thought-provoking appraisal of world affairs, this book will engage readers on both sides of the political spectrum. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A link to the Amazon.com page for this book.
PLEASE don't believe everything you read in emails. Do the research for yourself. Maybe, even read the book for yourself. You might be glad to know that the person most likely to become our next president is reading it. I'm happy to know we'll have a president who can read!
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