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• W294677148 abstract "American Crescent: A Muslim Cleric on the Power of His Faith, the Struggle against Prejudice, and the Future of Islam in America. By Imam Hassan Qazwini. New York: Random House, 2007. 284 pp. $26.95. My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir. By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. New York: Tarcher-Penguin, 2007. 294 pp. $24.95. Journey into Islam: Crisis of Globalization. By Akbar Ahmed. Washington: Brookings Institution, 2007. 323 pp. $28.95. These books, published almost simultaneously, provide alarming glimpses into three levels of Muslim life in America. These are: first, the sphere of ideological Islamist leadership, in which the Dearborn-based Shi' i figure Qazwini, born in Iraq to a well-known, originally Iranian lineage, has assumed a prominent role. Second, Gartenstein-Ross describes the littleknown but disturbing experience of a Jewish-born convert to Islam who became involved in the Saudi-financed Wahhabi radical network, as exemplified by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which has its American headquarters in Ashland, Ore. third, a think-tank volume by Ahmed, a professor of Islamic studies at American University, is characteristic of recent Beltway briefing manuals in providing a brazen defense of radical Islam to U.S. policymakers. Although he is not fully credited, Qazwini's book was coauthored - i.e., probably ghostwritten - by Brad Crawford, a freelance author. Not surprisingly, the narrative is nothing if not contradictory. Qazwini first came to the attention of the American public in 2003 when President George W. Bush kissed him on the cheek in front of media photographers. At that point, Qazwini was widely considered among American Shi' i as one among many enthusiastic supporters of the U. S. -led intervention in Iraq. In this text, however, discussion of the Iraq war comes after digressive disclaimers of broader Muslim responsibility for September 11, vague reminiscences of the Bush campaign of 2000, and complaints about the 2001 Patriot Act, which causes Qazwini to go so far as to compare the Bush administration with the regime of Saddam Hussein. Then, forgetting his intimate embrace of the president and the role of Iraqi- American Shi'a in demanding war in Iraq as a means of liberating the Shi' i shrine of Karbala, Qazwini declares disingenuously, The war in Iraq was just as messy in my mind as it was on the ground. My Iraqi relatives had real freedom of expression for the first time in their lives - but amid the sort of turmoil where talking is of little use. Either because of deceit by Qazwini or incompetence by his coauthor, American Crescent is an exemplar of incoherence. While one hesitates to accuse him of deception, it is obvious that Qazwini wishes to affirm the martyrdom of Iraqi Shi' a at the hands of Saddam and his own loyalty to America while at the same time attempting to grant ideological satisfaction to an array of critics of the Iraq war. There is a better term for this than deception: It is ingratitude. Qazwini' s revisionism on the Iraq war and American Shi' i involvement with it overshadows such typically absurd touches, seen in similar books, as the claim that American Muslims didn't object to [2000 Democratic vice-presidential candidate] Senator [Joseph] Lieberman's Jewishness, but rather to his unconditional support for the pro-Israeli lobby. Qazwini describes himself as speaking to Bush only of removing Saddam, not of invasion. But such a distinction, if meaningful, was too obscure to appear in the public discourse at the time the Iraq intervention began, and a self-serving attempt to recast events, such as that to which Qazwini has here committed himself, will not change that reality. America's most prominent Shi' i cleric, in producing this book, has accomplished little in service of the Shi' i principle of divine justice. Gartenstein-Ross's story of his involvement with the Al-Haramain Foundation includes an evocation of the Jewish commitment to liberal values and social justice, but the emphasis on the latter is the only element this work has in common with Qazwini' s book. …" @default.
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