![]() It contains the best-written and most persuasive modern interpretation of Islam I have read. Positive review įareed Zakaria wrote a positive review of the book in The New York Times, stating: "It is a book of enormous intelligence, courage and clarity. ![]() ![]() The book received positive to mixed reviews from critics and praise from politicians including Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy. In the book Bhutto argued that democracy and Islam are completely compatible and the reason behind terrorism is not Islam but politics. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts her final months in Pakistan and considers how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that she said lie at the heart of her religion. So she wanted him to compile all the assertions of extremist clerics and terrorists on democracy, pluralism, tolerance and then asked him confer with Islamic scholars and compile the Quranic references to the same subjects and line them out in an array, almost a spreadsheet, against the extremists. Mark Seigel had helped Bhutto to research to write this book and he said that Bhutto had been troubled by the way that extremists had hijacked the message of Islam. ![]() The book was published after her assassination.Īt the time of Bhutto's death, the manuscript for her last book, to be called Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, had been received by HarperCollins. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West (2008) is the last book by former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. ![]()
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