Previously published as Is there an Islamic problem? (Kuala Lumpur : The Other Press, 2004.)
Contents
Contents -- Preface -- Section 1. The new orientalism -- Bernard Lewis: scholarship or sophistry? -- A clash of civilizations? Nonsense -- The war against global terrorism -- Is there an Islamic problem? -- How different are Islamicate societies? -- Islam: an interview -- Section 2. Palestine and Israel -- A colonizing project built on lies -- Academic boycott of Israel -- Crossing the line -- Israel's proxy war -- Illuminating Thomas Friedman -- Lerner, Said and the Palestinians -- Elie Wiesel: on being good victims -- Recognizing Israel: or selling out -- Another wall -- Voiding the Palestinians: an allegory -- Section 3. War against global terrorism -- A history of September 11 -- A day that changed America? -- Why 9-11 and why now? -- Dialectics of terror -- Race and visibility -- Iraq is free -- Semantics of empire -- America imagine this -- The Islamic resistance -- Testing free speech in America -- Real men go to Tehran -- The Muslims America loves -- Author index -- Subject index.