I love browsing these posts, googling titles, and adding some to my future reading list.
I'm currently reading an English translation of Risale-i Nur by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi.
I am trying to get a hold of The Truth About 'The Closing of the Ring' about a Belfast B17 crash in 1944:
"A nice little story about true love and a ring found on a hillside being reunited with its rightful owner thousands of miles away is all very well... but... the story being told about events surrounding that plane crash in 1944 are at the least inaccurate and at worst pure lies perpetuated since the event took place.
The truth is a more sinister one and may have had catastrophic consequences for the residents of Belfast at that time.... some people have lied... some have been told to lie... others have just bought the whole deal without question."
Seratonin_Wraith, you might be interested in reading a review of
The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci
as it claims there are quite a few inaccuracies in it (although I do not know the truth of these claims myself), including:
She mentions the Association for the Return of Andalusia to Islam as an organisation dedicated to the re-conquest of Spain by Muslims. However, that association, founded in 1975, was created by Communists of Spanish birth and blood with not a single Muslim being involved. Another "evidence" of a Muslim conspiracy to re-take Spain, according to Fallaci, is a scheme by " the scandalously rich Sultan of Sharjah" to buy an increasing chunk of Spanish land. There is, of course, no Sultan in Sharjah, and if there were one, he could not be scandalously rich and, certainly, not rich enough to buy Spain.
Another "evidence" Fallaci cites is a supposed " secret plan for all-out war against the West" worked out by the late Palestinian guerrilla leader Georges Habache in 1971. The trouble is that Habache, a Marxist-Leninist by ideology, was a Christian by birth and could hardly be regarded as the architect of an Islamic plot to conquer of the world.
Fallaci also claims that the late Algerian President Houari Boumedienne developed a policy aimed at encouraging Algerian women to produce numerous children some of whom could then be exported to Europe as vanguards of a Muslim conquest of the continent through immigration. The truth is that Boumedienne introduced the first family planning programmes in Algeria and did all he could to stop Algerian birth rates from spiralling out of control. His efforts began to produce results from the early 1990s. Even then it is difficult to regard Boumedienne, who saw himself as a champion of Third World socialism, as a Muslim Ghazi trying to conquer Europe.
So persuaded is Fallaci that all evil in the world comes from Islam that she attributes many acts of terrorism committed by non-Muslims to " Islamic fanatics". For example, the Palestinian-American Sirhan Bishara Sirhan who murdered Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968 was a Christian not a Muslim. Wadi Haddad, the mastermind of aircraft hijacking operations, was also a Christian and a leftist, not a soldier of Islam.
Although a journalist with almost 60 years of experience, Fallaci is often careless with her facts and makes outlandish claims.
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=8&id=6104
~Merry
