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The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris. (Norton, 2005) Review

This is a disturbing book principally for its ignorant tirade against Moslems. As an atheist myself I had hoped for something more rational and informative given the enormous popularity of this book in the U.S. but find Harris here is too often little more than a mega-mouthpiece for Western (read American?) ignorance of Moslems and … Continue reading “The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris. (Norton, 2005) Review”

Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society / Ghassan Hage (Pluto Press, 2003) Review

This was the first book I read by an Australian Lebanese academic and I found its discussion of fundamentalism and suicide terrorism most informative. It opened my eyes to seeing how our own Australian nationalism can be seen by non-westerners as just as fundamentalist as any other kind:

The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris. (Norton, 2005) Review

This is a disturbing book principally for its ignorant tirade against Muslims. As an atheist myself I had hoped for something more rational and informative given the enormous popularity of this book in the U.S. but find Harris here is too often little more than a mega-mouthpiece for Western (read American?) ignorance of Muslims and … Continue reading “The end of faith: religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris. (Norton, 2005) Review”