http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/books/review/Ajami-t.html?pagewanted=all
This sounds like a useful book, and timely. Some good lines from Ajami's review: "In its original habitat, there could be an honest reckoning with Islam. Men and women could wrestle with the limits it places on them; they would weigh, in that timeless manner, the balance between fidelity to the faith and the yearning for freedom. But it isn’t easy in Amsterdam or Stockholm. There, the faith is identity, and the faith is complete and sharpened like a weapon."
Europeans Muslims have a separate identity and want a separate identity. Like any proud, yet beleaguered culture, they want to play the master. And their need for mastery steels the will, and the steel scythe of it harvests for their spirits growing contempt for the wavering realms of Christendom. Mastery waits only upon their achievement of full consciousness of their victims' will to submit.
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