Popular Arab Reading
February 4th, 2007 | by Todd W |The largest Book Fair in the Arab world is going on in Cairo. What’s popular among the youth?
The fair also has its darker sides, with anti-Christian polemics advocating conversion to Islam as the only solution to a flawed religion and of course plenty of editions of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” for sale.
“It makes up a big part of our success, especially among the 18 to 25 crowd,” said Mahmud Abdallah of the Syrian-Egyptian Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi publishing house.
And since we’re on the subject of Hitler, here’s a rather overwrought Flash presentation that illustrates some Islamic love for the Third Reich. As people love to point out, ‘my struggle’ translates as ‘jihad’.
And as always, my disclaimer. Not all Muslims are frothing jihadis, but this mess is a problem only solved by Muslims who actually care about their faith. Germans didn’t solve Nazism, and I doubt they enjoyed the external solution imposed upon them. I hope the rational Muslims take heed soon.
