Beware of ideas, all ideas do, always go further to verify the information especially when they can generate intolerance ... This is the credo of this book and I can only agree but because there is a but, the "conventional wisdom" chosen, for many democracy or non-democracy in Muslim countries, are valid at the instant the book is written and only then. It happens a significant event in a city and country everything changes ... and what is stated in the book is out of date. This is the criticism I have for this book. it quickly surpassed in the direction of better or worse. But beware, this does not exempt to beware of any belief.