Patriot Heart
06-26-2006, 10:00 AM
Nauseating to contemplate.
Life in an Islamist US By Jeff Jacoby
In truth, though, most Americans have never thought about what it would mean if the terrorists really did win — if militant Islamists were to succeed in their quest for political control of the United States. It isn't something that elites in academia, government, or the media generally like to talk about, for fear of being branded racist or ``Islamophobic." American Islamists themselves are careful not to speak too candidly about their supremacist goals.
Life in an Islamist United States would be largely unfree and intolerant, if the experience of countries where radical Muslims have achieved power — Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and Afghanistan — is any guide. What would that mean in American terms? That's the question a remarkable new novel sets out to answer.
``Prayers for the Assassin," Robert Ferrigno's latest thriller, is set 35 years in the future, when the United States has been transformed into the Islamic Republic of America. It is a country in which university professors can lose their jobs for being ``insufficiently Islamic," cellphone cameras are illegal, and men can only dream of ``loud music, cold beer, and coed beaches." There is still a Super Bowl, but the cheerleaders are all men. Mt. Rushmore still exists, but the presidential faces on it have been blown up.
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Life in an Islamist US By Jeff Jacoby
In truth, though, most Americans have never thought about what it would mean if the terrorists really did win — if militant Islamists were to succeed in their quest for political control of the United States. It isn't something that elites in academia, government, or the media generally like to talk about, for fear of being branded racist or ``Islamophobic." American Islamists themselves are careful not to speak too candidly about their supremacist goals.
Life in an Islamist United States would be largely unfree and intolerant, if the experience of countries where radical Muslims have achieved power — Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and Afghanistan — is any guide. What would that mean in American terms? That's the question a remarkable new novel sets out to answer.
``Prayers for the Assassin," Robert Ferrigno's latest thriller, is set 35 years in the future, when the United States has been transformed into the Islamic Republic of America. It is a country in which university professors can lose their jobs for being ``insufficiently Islamic," cellphone cameras are illegal, and men can only dream of ``loud music, cold beer, and coed beaches." There is still a Super Bowl, but the cheerleaders are all men. Mt. Rushmore still exists, but the presidential faces on it have been blown up.
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http://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby062606.php3