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 On the Road to Kandahar - Jason Burke
 On the Road to Kandahar - Jason Burke ... the Islamic world intimately, Burke now turns to the wider question of how we are to get to grips with radical Islam and what it really means. Burke has travelled all over the great arc of Islamic land, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, and he uses this in his new book to great effect to show how various and completely unmonolithic Islam really is, and how the sort of standard Western generalizations about it are both stupid and dangerous.Newest Review: ... a high tempo account of what was to become his ten year passage to greater Middle Eastern wisdom and understanding. One of ... more ... his main concerns is to transmit to his readers his understanding of the diversity of Islamic culture and to dispel the narrow minded focus of the Muslim world that is often portrayed in Western Media outlets. He points out how a Muslim in one country is different than a Muslim in another country and portrays the religion in all of it's diversity such as the various schools of thought and historical traditions. In Pakistan he meets a Sufi holy man full of wisdom, patience and understanding but later on a visit to...more |
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On the Road to Kandahar - Jason Burke: A Tough Road to Travel (720 words)
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Jason Burke gives an impressive account of his personal voyage of discovery and adventure in the Middle East. He travels there as a 21 year old at the beginning of the first Gulf War conflict in 1991 and what starts out as an attempt to see some action on the war front turns into an enduring journey of self-fulfilment which enables Burke to gain an intimate comprehension of the region and the Muslim way of life. His journey begins in Kurdish Iraq and moves on to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria and as far a field as the Muslim world of South East Asia. It is a journey of human encounters with hundreds of people including interviews with government ministers, refugees and ... Read the complete review
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