Spring Fever

The Illusion of Islamic Democracy

De: Andrew C. McCarthy

Narrado por: Andrew C. McCarthy

The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced.

Is this self-perception based on objective truth? Does it reflect an accurate construction of Islam? It is over these questions that American officials and Western intellectuals obsess. Yet the questions are irrelevant. This is not a matter of right or wrong, of some posture or policy whose subtle tweaking or outright reversal would change the facts on the ground. This is simply, starkly, the way it is.

Every human heart does not yearn for freedom. In the Islam of the Middle East, "freedom" means something very nearly the opposite of what the concept connotes to Westerners - it is the freedom that lies in total submission to Allah and His law. That law, sharia, is diametrically opposed to core components of freedom as understood in the West - beginning with the very idea that man is free to make law for himself, irrespective of what Allah has ordained. It is thus delusional to believe, as the West's Arab Spring fable insists, that the region teems with Jamal al-Madisons holding aloft the lamp of liberty. Do such revolutionary reformers exist? Of course they do...but in numbers barely enough to weave a fictional cover story. When push came to shove - and worse - the reformers were overwhelmed, swept away by a tide of Islamic supremacism, the dynamic, consequential mass movement that beckons endless winter.

That is the real story of the Arab Spring - that, and the Pandora's Box that opens when an American administration aligns with that movement, whose stated goal is to destroy America.

©2012 Andrew C. McCarthy (P)2012 Encounter Books

An amazing book

Where does Spring Fever rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It has so much good info I am listening to it for the 3rd time.

What about Andrew C. McCarthy’s performance did you like?

He is a great writer

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

You can break it up but sure.

Any additional comments?

It is a great book and I highly recommend it.

A must read.

As a life-long conservative and a forty year plus Republican, I have long recognized that too few Republicans and conservatives were and still are willing to challenge former President George W. Bush's foreign policy blunders; policy decisions that are being furthered by President Barack Obama. President Bush's effort to implant democracy in the Muslim and the Muslim-Arab world were bound to fail for reasons McCarthy aptly details in this book. President Obama's toppling of largely secular-leaning dictators (albeit brutal dictators) is helping to further the most extreme interpretation of Islam in the Middle East and North Africa. Bush and Obama have replaced one dictatorship with another far more dangerous form of sharia-compliant dictatorship. If readers are interested in apprehending the perils of these misguided policies, listen to this book.

Thorough

Well, I do not want to disparage this book, or the author . I learned what I needed to know in the first few chapters.
As usual , when the Far Left jumps on a Bandwagon, there is a very good reason why.
The rest of the book lays out , in detail, what most do not know. Me included.
I know now.
To a causal listener , one who prefers to keep their head buried firmly in the sand , I would say pass. This book will scare you .
To the Far Left , my review , if I become any more specific, , well, I don't want them treating me, or my family, to the treatment the IRS got from the crazies at the " Church of Scientology " gave them, to the point where the IRS surrendered.
Don't know about that ? Hummm.
Laid out from a legal jurists point of view , it's excellent. For the other 99.9% of us , after the first few chapters , it's , well , long.
There is much here that needs to be known, for the general public, but it could , I think , be put much more succulently. Shorter, in other words.
As for the conclusion , , well, it dances around . Granted , it's a book. Current events may put it in a perspective for you, but only if you truly understand what Islam really is , and the history of the Far Left.
Otherwise, you're wasting your time and money.