Affirming the West By Alyssa A. Lappen

For the last quarter century, many political leaders and candidates have been overly swayed by the willful misinterpretation of Western history instigated by Columbia University's infamous late professor, Edward Said. As a bromide, Western civilization could greatly benefit if the current crop of presidential hopefuls would immediately read Ibn Warraq's Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism (Prometheus, 2007).

Besides clearly identifying the magnitude of the damage Said and his mindless sycophants have done, the book will also provide an instant curative for foolish ideas so widely generated by Islamic dyspepsia. At long last, Western politicians have a yardstick by which to measure our cultural and political grandeurs (including an enormous, highly beneficial propensity for self-criticism), as compared to the social dysfunction, disintegration and horrors wrought through 1,400 years of Islamic history, and continuing in our own age.

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