Londonistan (book)

Londonistan (book)

Infobox Book
name = Londonistan


author = Melanie Phillips
country = United Kingdom
language = English
subject = Islamic Terrorism
Politics
publisher = Encounter books
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 212
isbn = ISBN 1594031444

"Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within" (ISBN 1-59403-144-4) is a book by British journalist Melanie Phillips who alleges the spread of Islamism in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years. The book is published in London by Encounter books.

Overview

The book encompasses a critique of multiculturalism, weak policing, cultural relativism, and what Phillips calls a 'victim culture'. She argues that these forces combined to create an ideal breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. She points to the centrality of London based individuals and groups to many terror plots around the world, which she argues were enabled by a semi-formal "covenant of security" between Islamists and the British authorities. Zacharias Moussaoui and shoebomber Richard Reid are two of many such examples she points to in the book.Fact|date=July 2008

Critical reception

The historian William Dalrymple has been particularly critical of the book, describing it as written by someone who shows "no evidence of having spent any time in Muslim company, or of having set foot within the Muslim world". [ [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=8173 Books of the year] , "Prospect", January 2007, accessed 26 December 2006]

ee also

*Londonistan (term)
*Melanie Phillips
*Londonstani
*Eurabia

References

External links

* [http://www.newstatesman.com/Books/200606120052 "Losing the plot",] Book review by Brendan O'Neill, "New Statesman", June 12, 2006
* [http://www.madrid11.net/articles/phillips121206 Interview] at Madrid11.net
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,1798994,00.html Interview] at "The Guardian"
* [http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev051006a.cfm Video of Phillips discussing the book] at the Heritage Foundation
* [http://www.nysun.com/article/37297?access=473291 Library Reverses Rejection of ‘Potentially Incendiary' Book] NY Sun article


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