Review: The Myth of the Muslim Tide - Do Immigrants Threaten the West? by Doug Saunders
As one of my New Year’s Resolutions I decided to read more non-fiction this year, more specifically 12 non-fiction books. I picked this one as one of them because I don’t like the way the public debate has been conducted lately. There seems to be a lot of hate and intolerance and people try to justify it with “facts” apparently pulled out of almost thin air. This book promises to take a hard look at these “facts” and refute most if not all of them, and unlike the propagators of the hateful speech, it actually backs up its claims. Granted this does get a little boring sometimes, but this is the stuff we need to refute the haters, so I definitely think it’s worth it to power through. And it really isn’t that bad. Saunders does a good job of giving us enough numbers to back up his claims and then adding a meaningful context to those numbers. In the first part of the book Saunders takes the claims made by anti-immigrant, anti-muslim people and refutes them one by...