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Title: Full of bitterness
Review: The book is useful in some of its documentation of facts regarding Muhammed, the Koran and the development of Islam. However, the author has an enormous axe to grind - not only against the faith he once held, but against all forms of belief. He constantly refers to the lack of rational and critical thought of Moslems, Christians and Jews, but he himself is not open to any informed opinions on them, quoting those scholars with a like bias. There is such a tone of bitterness, even hatred, against the presence of the Divine that it mars the reading of the book. For those of us who aren't knowledgable about Islam, it leaves us with the question of whether we are reading a fair commentary on it.
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