Blurred vision and false are those that see the world from afar in the form of artificially created false and

distorted by mistake and harm to Islam and Muslims and their way of thinking and approach to life ..

Muslims humans are natural and legitimate heterosexual them their dreams and their virtues and their moral values ​​and their minds that enables them to distinguish between friends and enemies . Origin in Islam is balance and moderation while extremism and terrorism from the extraordinary and abnormal phenomena in the lives of Muslims , just like the rest of human societies across the globe.
With these words, the idea is provided by the U.S. book Who Speaks for Islam? - How to think - really more than a billion Muslims ? . The book written by a professor of religion and international relations and Islamic Studies, the American John Esposito and Egyptian-American researcher in the affairs of Islam and Religions Dalia Mogahed . The authors of the book tries to Antasra Islam and يصححا the wrong vision taken from the Muslims and is directed to the Western reader victim b Islamophobia .
Usually when the question arises about whether we are on the outskirts of an all - out war between the West and one and a third billion Muslims and when the media are looking for an answer to this question , they usually ignore the real views of Muslims in the world . This book gives everyone a new angle of vision is blurred with the information provided by the documented reveal to the world that Muslims are not this misery , which promotes him.
Muslims in this book are not armies defamed swords and riding horses Tthvz to pounce on the Western infidels, and not terrorist groups dormant awaiting the opportunity to spread devastation and destruction and intimidation among Westerners , not objects addicted to conquer women and keep them in the basements of the harem , but they are creatures of natural unrelated image negative plotted them in the Western media before the events of September 11 and thereafter.
The address book reader western packaged against Islam and Muslims our huge and accumulated misinformation and stereotypes false , and tries in the language - is the closest in its standards to logic -west - to put in front of the Western mind a number of discoveries and facts that enable him to stand on the truth of Islam and Muslims , which is absent More consciousness and perception throughout centuries ago.
The book is the largest and most comprehensive research study conducted by Gallup in the United States between 2001 and 2007 and included tens of thousands of interviews with the age and cultural groups in 35 different Islamic state. The book discusses the roots of anti - Americanism in the Muslim world ? .. Extremists ? .. Do Muslims want democracy ? .. And if so what will it look like ? .. What do Muslim women want ? .. To the last of these questions that I tried to reflect her votes billion Muslims of the masses of the Islamic peoples , and perhaps from here precisely lies the importance of search Gallup , as it deliberately to give voice the people and not leaders or experts and specialists or politicians , who usually provide answers ready formulated in rigid and stereotypical mold , which certainly does not reflect her opinion of the people or the point of view of the masses.
Under the heading of democracy or a theocracy ? Theocracy words , the book is made ​​what he considers political realities in the Islamic world paid intellectuals and Western policy - makers to lack of faith in the existence of genuine democracy in the Muslim world.
It wins in a presidential election rulers routinely approximate rates ranging between 90 percent and 99.9 percent . Before the Arab Spring won the President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by 99.4 percent of the votes in the presidential elections in 1999 and by 94.5 in 2004 and confirmed the book that the rulers after atheist th of September in the country stretching from Egypt to Uzbekistan using the threat of al-Qaeda and terrorism international , and describe all opposition to extremism in order to control the election and justify their governments authoritarian, and , for example, mentions the book promised Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to cancel the emergency laws notorious when he ran for re-election in the first elections under the presidency of the challenge in the presidential elections in 2005, but returned for promise because of security issues.
The study proved that the citizens of Muslim-majority countries agree with the Americans by equal in their rejection of attacks on civilians, and believe that it can not be justified morally , and those who have chosen violence and extremism , what caused them to do this is politics, not poverty or religion, and when he asked those surveyed to describe their dreams for the future , they did not mention anything about the participation in Jihad, which is the name used by extremist groups to justify their attacks - and but Westphalian answers in getting a better job.
It also confirms the results of a referendum Gallup capacity deployment in support of democratic freedoms and rights of women in the Islamic world , and that there are a number of principles in Islamic tradition supports these freedoms , and that many Muslims appreciate the number of democratic principles in spite of the scarcity of democracies in the Islamic countries, and that he does not see Muslims generally a conflict between democratic values ​​and Islamic principles. Not in favor of polls Gallup that the presence of strong military in the region will gain the war against terrorism, and indicate that the long war against terrorism will not be victory where on the battlefield , but to gain the loyalty of people in the region , and whether to wage war effectively against terrorism , the military occupation Muslim countries increases the emotion of hostility to the Americans, and the moral authority of America falls when the allies , and the silent voices of the moderates who want better relations . The book emphasizes that it is not inevitable that the conflict continues between the West and the Muslim world. It is about politics and not a clash of principles.
The authors believe that democracies are more stable than dictatorships , under democratic rule under conditions conducive to growing strong violence and militancy. And linking the policy of America, which says it aims to achieve democracy in the Middle East and emotions of the vast majority of those involved in the referendum, who say they admire political freedoms in the West.
The book raises the question : If there is a desire for democracy , why did not the way to permit easier and faster? ! Rather than provide an answer to the question it records the majority in Jordan, Egypt , Iran, Pakistan , Turkey, Morocco believes that America is serious about spreading democracy in these countries.
He says: Only 24 % of Egyptians and Jordanians agree that America is serious about establishing democratic systems , while Ali agrees that 54 % of Lebanese. He adds that the strategy of the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush was heading to strengthen the historic alliances of the United States with authoritarian Arab regimes .
The book reviews the great diversity in Muslim communities along the Arab world and down to Southeast Asia in addition to the spread of Muslims in the United States and Europe, where Islam is the second religion marrow in Europe , pointing out that in the Muslim world a large number of languages ​​, races, and habits, and that 57 countries predominantly Muslim the population, and that the Arabs representing 20% ​​of the Muslim population in the world.
The authors say : The failure of governments in Muslim-majority countries and the abduction of the rulers and the terrorists of Islam helped to tarnish the image of Islam in the West . And witnessed the Egyptian political arena after the January revolution and the arrival of the Muslim Brotherhood and then failing to rule and the overthrow of their own is the best tool to help to distort the image of Islam in the world.
In a poll published in the United States in 2006, I had 46 % of Americans a negative idea about Islam. According to author the book : The 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States and subsequent terrorist attacks continue in the capitals of Arab and European countries have led to a growing panic of Islam, until it became Muslims in the position of the comet to prove their innocence was Islam as a cause , and the Christian right in the Bush administration was his role in the accusation of demonization of Islam .
The book cites a statement Franklin Graham , son pastor Billy Graham and his successor in that channel . B . C at the end of 2001 , when he said : Islam is a religion of evil and very harmless . In September 2002, described the priest Pat Robertson on Fox Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him as a fanatic with an evil eye at all , a thief and bandit and murderer , but the book stresses that leaders evangelicals do not share this negative view of Islam, and some of them considered these statements are wrong.
The record book with similar warning of the presence of stresses within the Muslim world and outside it, that the world is united around they considered Islam - not radical Muslims only - threat to the world , and that those believers Saddam imminent civilizations are not copies of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the world, but many us as well.
Book was published in English in the United States in the 239 page to return to the minds of the true picture that appears bring Muslims and promoted their thoughts and HH dealings and expels the evil image of Muslim savagery and violence and their tendency to remove barbarism .
And John Esposito, author of the book is a professor of religion and international relations and Islamic Studies and the founder and director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington, DC . Esposito is headed by editing the Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World , Oxford book about Islamic history . Has been issued to him so far, many of the most literature on Islam and Islamic movements and the relationship between Islam and the West .
And John Esposito contributed to a number of debates , lectures and conferences that seek to dialogue between religions and cultures and get rid of misconceptions , especially by the West against Islam .
Mogahed and author of the book is head of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies , which does research and statistics relating to Muslims all over the world .
It has been working for years in the convergence of views between Muslims and the West and participated in many activities that aim to improve the image of Islam in the West. It is the only Muslim in Obama's Advisory Council of Religions , which includes 25 wide and secular figures .