Read Introduction of The Battle For God here
I have found a very charitable homepage of a very commendable book seller in the United States which reproduces online for free and friendly perusal the Introduction of Karen Armstrong's The Battle For God whose book-form has recently been banned here. To read the full book, you have to visit Singapore more often.
There, you can also watch the VCD and DVD of fellow Malaysian Amir Muhammad's Lelaki 'Komunis' Terakhir and read Professor John Esposito's What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam (New York, Oxford University Press, 2002) or Faces of Courage co-authored by another fellow Malaysian, Chen Chin Sheng.Introduction of Karen Armstrong's The Battle For God
http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=543
For more book reviews both for and against Karen Armstrong ideas, please google " The Battle for God, book reviews"
Karen Armstrong, Turn, Turn, Turn
http://www.powells.com/authors/armstrong.html
Bill Movers' interview with Karen Armstrong
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_armstrong.html
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly's interview: Karen Armstrong
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week602/armstrong.html
Islam and the West - an interview with Karen Armstrong
http://www.islamfortoday.com/karenarmstrong02.htm
PBS interviews Karen Armstrong
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/5099
posted by James Wong Wing-On at 7:00 AM
3 Comments:
1. I agree with you that we do not have to go to Singapore if there are other ways and means. But, to be honest, I am really impressed by the sizes and the range of titles in Kinokuniya and Borders at Orchard Road. So, there is no harm also of going to Singapore to see what new books have come out.
2. At least, Stalin did what he did in WARTIME facing real military threats from countries and forces hostile to his country -Post Revolutionary Civil War, WWI, WWII and Early Cold War. But we are in PEACETIME in the post-Cold War where PM Abdullah has proclaim Islam Hadhari whose principles are in the spirit of what Karen Armstrong and John Esposito have written. PARANOIA in waryime is normal. PARANOIA in peacetime is scary.
3. North Korea is bit strange.I will talk about it later after I read more.
4. Like it or not, communist China nowadays are much freer than Malaysia as far as selection of books are concerned: you can buy and read even books by Hayek and Karl Popper which are anti-communist.
1.Kinokuniya and Borders in Singapore are really big. You should visit them. By the way, as far as Alternative Books on M'sia is concerned, there is no need to go that far. Call up Mr. Chong Ton Sin's Gerakbudaya, you will get aplenty: 03-79578342.
2. Will talk about other subject later.
it's okay. i often did it too. i'm not a perfectionist.
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