Reviews for America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

The average rating for America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-12-02 00:00:00 Tran Eldridge Update: 27 February 2016 This is how it starts isn't it, through this book and others of its ilk?On Thanksgiving, a Pittsburgh man accosted his Moroccan cab driver with questions about ISIS, then shot him. Two weeks later, a Michigan man called an Indian store clerk a "terrorist" before shooting him in the face. On Christmas eve in Texas, a local man charged into a Muslim-owned tire shop and shouted "Muslim!" as he opened fire, killing one and critically wounding another.I know that I'm a voice in the wilderness here, that many of the people who read this book will never change their minds. Nevertheless, I want to note that I was at a Madonna concert last night. Out here in Southeast Asia, there were many women in the audience that were Muslim, who stood out because they were wearing the head covering known in SE Asia as the tudung. They were dancing away and clapping and cheering and laughing at the raunchy songs, the simulated masturbation, the images of gay couples. They cheered when a young Chinese man went onstage wearing a T-shirt proclaiming, "I was straight until Madonna saved me." Not exactly your idea of some traditional, oppressed woman hiding at home and popping out Jihadi babies is it? And you know what the biggest irony is? The archibishop of the local diocese had recently sent a missive to all Catholics of the country to, as good Catholics, boycott the concert. The contrast between the two couldn't be more stark. There are as many different kinds of Muslims as there are different kinds of Christians. A very large majority of Muslims are like these women at the Madonna concert: more interested in having a good time and then being moderately religious on Friday than anything else. Frankly, I'd find them more fun to be with than Pat Robertson or Mark Steyn or the Catholic archbishop. At least they aren't interested in converting me or hating me for being gay. Update: 26 January 2016 Oh, come on guys, just come clean and say the words, "Final Solution"."When you get these terrorists," Trump said, "you have to take out their families."... and the crowd roared their approvalAt least we'll all know where you stand. Just lovin' it! Update: 12 February 2015 In the wake of the Chapel Hill shooting and the tragic deaths of three young persons who happen espouse the Muslim religion, I think it's worthwhile to add to this review. Books like this are what add to the bigotry and hate. The repeated telling of the lie that the Muslim-Other is the Bogeyman that Must be Destroyed is what leads to incidents like this. To paraphrase Rupert Murdoch, I think all the atheists and white people and especially those who like this book need to stand up and take responsibility for the actions of this murderer and apologise for what your community has done. After all, that's simply applying the kind of logic of this book to yourself. PS: As a committed and fervent atheist, may I humbly plead with everyone to understand that this man's actions do not reflect my beliefs nor the beliefs of all atheists. Many of us do not believe in violence or in killing theists. We respect the rights of theists to believe what they believe, even while we hope that they will one day see the true light. Update: December 2011 Ooo, don't they look like scary Muslim fanatics? Oh… Christian right-wing terrorist?… You sure they're not Muslim? You mean the deadliest terrorist mass killing in 2011 on European soil was perpetrated by a right-wing Christian white supremacist? Errr… THE FACTS DON'T MATTER. THIS IS RIGHT BECAUSE I SAY IT'S RIGHT!! LA LA LA LA LA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Here are some actual facts to put things in perspective. It might be useful to note that between 1970 and 2005, the IRA detonated some 19,000 bombs in the UK (with quite a bit of support from Irish nationalists residing in the US). That's 760 bombs a year or an average of TWO A DAY. In comparison, how many Islamist bomb attacks have there been in Europe since 2001? None. Actually, the biggest bomb attack on Western European soil in recent years has been by the Basque separatists in Spain, not remotely Muslim in any way, shape, or form. And, of course, Anders Breivik perpetrated the most recent mass killing. Sadly for the thesis in this bookdiatribe of hate, Breivik was motivated by exactly the kind of sentiment expressed here. So, you have to ask yourself, really, which is real threat? And which is the made-up inflammatory gimmick? Original Review By parity of reasoning: - Because Columbine took place, ALL Americans are gun-crazy nut-jobs that seriously hate their lives and want to kill everyone. - Because the Ku Klux Klan exists in America, ALL Americans are racists who want to lynch and/or enslave anyone who is not white. - Because there are fundamentalist Christian churches in America who are anti-abortion and believe that wives should be subservient to their husbands, ALL Americans are fundamentalist Christians who are anti-abortion and believe that wives should be subservient to their husbands. Yes, yes, all the millions and millions and millions of Americans living across America all live and think in exactly the same way, no exceptions. Wow. That's like, waaayyyy deep, dude! We've seen this kind of racist demonising before. It was in Germany, 1939, by this guy with a funny moustache. He was talking about Jews. Funny, I thought he was the facist.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-07-29 00:00:00 Nicholas Coll This book is a waste of trees and space, especially in the overcrowded North Asian country where it was given to me. It also disgraces the hardback book format. I have no difficulty reading books with views that differ from mine, but I do not read stupid books. The preface alone characterizes the 1980s and 1990s strife in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Balkans as the fault of ingrates who refused to accept the political boundaries given them by Western European Liberal Democracies. Of course, being a journalist with a laughably uneducated audience, he would never use the term "liberal democracy," concerned that the use of the word "liberal" would make them uneasy, what with that term's derision on talk radio. So, he just says "democracy." It's incorrect, but let's not have our readers think too much, k? This man still believes in the "America's about knowing what's best for yourself" ideal, and apparently earnestly. Don't read this book. Not even as a joke. It's that bad. Keep in mind I've not even gotten to the "substance" of the book. Steyn argues that Muslims intrinsically advocate theocracy, as will their children. There may soon be more muslims than christians. This means that our children will all follow Wahhabic Islam, unless we act now. To avoid that, we need to stop being warm fuzzy multiculturalists. No, seriously. This is the substance of the book. *edit* aug 2011 I wonder how many of the people on this website recall or were aware of the controversy when we first had a Roman Catholic running for President, and how the exact same dumb arguments about the central flaws of multipurpose-culture-to-blame/inconvenient-poor-people/those-not-like-us keep coming up every couple decades. I talked about this briefly on my blog, and ended up linked on his homepage for a couple days. I got so much fucking annoying harassment from his fans, all of whom were utter morons. Wow. I didn't realize I had that kind of vitriol left in me.