Spring Fever
My new book, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, officially comes out today. I have a new website, AndrewCMcCarthy.com, and it will be largely devoted to book themes and related news for the time being.
Spring Fever is an E-book for a couple of reasons. First, the readership for books in a digital rather than a traditional paper format has grown vast due to the speed of delivery, the convenience of storing and carrying lots and lots of books on a small device (iPad, Kindle, etc.), and the many advantageous features the digital format provides (searching, note-making, instant links to source materials, etc.). I love good old books, though. Although I made the switch a couple of years ago, I sympathize with those who have resisted. That brings us to reason number two: the relevance of books to current events.
When my friend and publisher (at Encounter Books) Roger Kimball and I first talked about a book about the so-called Arab Spring, I did not leap at the idea. My previous book, The Grand Jihad, was about the history of the Muslim Brotherhood, its well thought out method of revolution, and the abetting of it by the Left, the current administration in particular. If you read The Grand Jihad — the title is taken from the Brotherhood’s own words in an internal memo in which they explain their mission as a “grand jihad” to “destroy Western from within” — you have not been the least bit surprised by the last two years of upheaval in the Middle East, including the anti-American rioting of the past week. Thus, I could certainly see the sense in following The Grand Jihad up with a book underscoring that the phenomenon we are witnessing is not a spontaneous outbreak of democracy in a region yearning for freedom but an inevitable transition to strict Islamization in a civilization yearning for sharia and hostile to Western culture.
Still, I was reluctant because of the usual book production process: you spend months writing a manuscript, then the book is finally produced and published long after you’re done — maybe six months… maybe eight months. My two books have held up well — to the extent they’ve been predictive, they’ve been on the money. And, not to toot my own flute too much, I think I’ve had the “Democracy Project” and its “Arab Spring” iteration right for a long time. There’s something scary, though, about the prospect of writing a book about a dramatically moving target. To say events are moving rapidly in the Middle East these days is to make a gross understatement. I was worried that by the time a book about the “Arab Spring” could be published, it would be stale, with my manuscript inevitably overrun by intervening months of new events.
The USA needs to flood the world, using all avail. mediums, exposing the real danger of islam. I refuse to live in fear or cower to a cult that worships death and uses fear as its driving power.
Robert Spencer: “Finally: NATO scales back joint operations with Afghan forces. How many had to be murdered by their “trainees” and “partners” before this happened? General Allen and the rest of the high command should be put on trial for the deaths of every one of those troops. What war strategy? There is no plan for victory, no definition of victory, no clear goal, no clear means to get to any goal — nothing. Just more and more of our troops killed for a Sharia government that its people hates, battling Sharia forces that enjoy broad support.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/finally-nato-scales-back-joint-operations-with-afghan-forces.html
TO THE TUNE OF “LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL”
Beware of, creeping Shari’a,
We see our liberties fraying away,
Remember anywhere an Imam’s speaking,
Shari’a, creeping–throughout our land,
INTO OUR HOUSE.
Jihadists work hard, without complaining,
They’re sure those virgins are coming this way!
So always look for, Shari’a creeping,
They claim we’ll soon be in Islamic U.S.A.
Eighteen Dollars for an E-Book?
cf: “Why are e-books so expensive?
E-books eliminate expenses ranging from paper to transportation – shouldn’t they cost less than their paper cousins?
By Stacy Johnson Dec 13, 2011 2:44PM”
Published on Sep 18, 2012 by Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the situation in Afghanistan is trending in the wrong direction and what President Obama says about these so called “Green on Blue” attacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-mgOdlfXQ4&feature=plcp