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In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. With extremist Islam on the rise throughout the world, the peaceful, pluralistic message of Islam has been exploited and manipulated by fanatics. Bhutto persuasively argues that America and Britain are fueling this turn toward radicalization by supporting groups that serve only short-term interests. She believed that by enabling dictators, the West was actually contributing to the frustration and extremism that lead to terrorism. With her experience governing Pakistan and living and studying in the West, Benazir Bhutto was versed in the complexities of the conflict from both sides. She was a renaissance woman who offered a way out.
In this riveting and deeply insightful book, Bhutto explores the complicated history between the Middle East and the West. She traces the roots of international terrorism across the world, including American support for Pakistani general Zia-ul-Haq, who destroyed political parties, eliminated an independent judiciary, marginalized NGOs, suspended the protection of human rights, and aligned Pakistani intelligence agencies with the most radical elements of the Afghan mujahideen. She speaks out not just to the West, but to the Muslims across the globe who are at a crossroads between the past and the future, between education and ignorance, between peace and terrorism, and between dictatorship and democracy. Democracy and Islam are not incompatible, and the clash between Islam and the West is not inevitable.
Bhutto presents an image of modern Islam that defies the negative caricatures often seen in the West. After reading this book, it will become even clearer what the world has lost by her assassination.
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anarkali, March 15, 2008 (view all comments by anarkali)
This book has two strands. In the first strand, BB outlines her political world-view, arguing that Islam is not incompatible with democracy, women's rights, and religious tolerance. This element of the book is cobbled together from other scholars - I suspect it is largely the work of her collaborator, Mark Siegal, although it bears BB's authorisation. It reads like a fluent undergraduate essay, providing selective summaries of the available scholarship but not adding anything new. It is only of interest because of who BB was.
The other strand of the book is a defence of BB's own political record, which stands in stark contrast to the values she espouses in this book. I don't doubt that BB would prefer not to have supported the Taliban's rise to power in neighbouring Afghanistan. Or that she would have liked to overturn the Hudood ordinances, under which so many Pakistani women have been jailed for adultery (many of them having simply fallen victim to rape, or to vindictive reports by their former husbands). And BB would probably have prefered not to have been engaged in power-sharing negotiations with president Musharraf, even as she passionately denounced him in the pages of this book. But she valued power above all of those things. Now she is gone, and it is a tragic loss for Pakistan. But it is even more tragic that Pakistan has been reduced to the point where BB was its last best hope.
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naryab, February 4, 2008 (view all comments by naryab)
I have read this book thoroughly and found it of no significant value as far as research or scrutinisation of any state affair is concerned. I wonder how would one of the most busy scheduled lady spare such time for penning down her valuable comments?Just think once that Who was directly affected and threatened by her presence in Pakistan, and why would she be risk to Talibans in particular?
Surely she knew who would assassinate her,while having openly declared in US and Dubai that if in power she would hand over Dr Qadir, Pak's only hero to US, roll back nuclear assets, contain Islam's further propogation, behead all extremists (yet to define who they are) hence her foremost enemy was the Pak government itself. She had put the integrity of Pak at risk.
I am certain that this book is a belated effort of Unknown hands to thwart the blame of her untimely death.
I wonder why do we grace her with the word martyr (shaheed) which clearly explains that the death should have an honourable cause....If the cause was amassing and plundering state's wealth and corrupting the whole system, then USA should be congratulated for their new terms in thesaurus.
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amjjed22, January 14, 2008 (view all comments by amjjed22)
This is great scholarly approch towards realities in muslim world and democracy in this region it self.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780061567582
- Subtitle:
- Islam, Democracy, and the West
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- General Foreign Language Study
- Subject:
- General Political Science
- Subject:
- International Relations - General
- Subject:
- Political Ideologies - Democracy
- Subject:
- Prime ministers
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Subject:
- Religion, Politics & State
- Copyright:
- 2008
- Publication Date:
- February 2008
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 9.26x6.34x1.10 in. 1.21 lbs.
