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Making Muslims the enemy

From The New York Times Book Review, a special issue on Islam, including a review of Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East; a review of The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the Enlightenment by Lee Harris; a review of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy by Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg; Tariq Ramadan on reading the Koran; Fouad Ajami on his mistake of doubting Samuel Huntington when he predicted a struggle between Islam and the West; and Lorraine Adams on how Muslim women’s voices are being heard as never before — but which ones? A review of The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott. A review of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis.