24.11.08
Amazon review appears/so much for neo-con sufism
Amazon review of The Other Islam comes online. I am almost surprised, since it was flagged (certain topics are always flagged).
Actually I was too kind in the review. But a public medium like Amazon has ceased to be convincing if people throw out one-star reviews (a la Darwin debate books).
How the blazes do you warn the next generation? In any case, there was a lot more to say about the Schwarz book. All the pious crap about love and devotion to God.
Meanwhile, as the other reviewer notes, this was from a Neo-con.
Neo-con sufism, state department promo, etc…: the fight against Al Qaeda.
Can a sufi be an Al Qaeda?
How little these people know about sufism.
I recall years ago, way before the current reign of terror on both sides, reading a sufi text that was a hybrid of both spectra, the sufi world and the world of the islamic apocalyptic, at once mystical and violently against the modern world, and the west. The seeds were sown long ago, as much by sufis as moslems. (Upton’s book is a good late example dressed up in scholarly finery)