The race is on

Books analyze the crises within both Islam and the continent it is trying to subdue | Marvin Olasky

In preparation for the fall political season, Obama-blasting books are pouring forth: Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski's solid The Blueprint (Lyons, 2010), Aaron Klein's overwrought The Manchurian President (WND, 2010), and Robert Knight's succinct and lucid Radical Rulers: The White House Elites Who Are Pushing America Toward Socialism (Coral Ridge, 2010).

Oddly, the administration in Washington is cranking up the pro-Muslim rhetoric as Islam's cultural, political, and economic distress deepens. Iraqi leader Ali Allawi examines the deep malaise in his scholarly The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (Yale Univ. Press, 2009). Another academic book, The Hidden Origins of Islam (Prometheus; edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Gerd R. Puin), presents evidence of deception in Islam's beginnings: Does linguistic analysis disprove its revelation saga? Did Islam begin in a Christian heresy that later morphed into the equivalent of a Muhammad of Arabia movie?