Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

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Who Speaks for Islam : What a Billion Muslims Really Think by Dalia Mogahed Abstract

The relations between the Middle East and the United States of America became very difficult after the September , 2001 . Finally they grew into a serious conflict that seems to be insoluble . However , there are some people who do not give up stating that Muslims and Americans are not so different as is considered to be the case . The author of the book Who Speaks for Islam : What a Billion Muslims Really Think , Dalia

Mogahed tries to prove that Who Speaks for Islam : What a Billion Muslims Really Think by Dalia Mogahed

Introduction

After the terrorist attacks that happened 9 /11 /2001 , Americans consider Muslims to be their enemies . They are convinced that people from the Middle East hate Americans , despise their free way of life and express their hate by the terrorist acts directed against Americans

The main worth of the book Speaks for Islam : What a Billion Muslims Really Think consists in its ' author 's application to real records from the Gallup World Poll in to find out what the US citizens really know about the Middle East and people who live there . The investigation was held for six years and the results showed that Americans know very little about Muslims they seem to be so interested in (Mogahed , 2008

Book summary

Dalia Mogahed began her book Who Speaks for Islam : What a Billion Muslims Really Think by indicating that...