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Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
by: John L. Esposito, Dalia Mogahed

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 297
EAN: 9781595620170
ISBN: 1595620176
Label: Gallup Press
Manufacturer: Gallup Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 230
Publication Date: February 25, 2008
Publisher: Gallup Press
Sales Rank: 4909
Studio: Gallup Press

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In a post-9/11 world, many Americans conflate the mainstream Muslim majority with the beliefs and actions of an extremist minority. But what do the world’s Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself? Who Speaks for Islam? spotlights this silenced majority. The book is the product of a mammoth six-year study in which the Gallup Organization conducted tens of thousands of hour-long, face-to-face interviews with residents of more than 35 predominantly Muslim nations — urban and rural, young and old, men and women, educated and illiterate. It asks the questions everyone is curious about: Why is the Muslim world so anti-American? Who are the extremists? Is democracy something Muslims really want? What do Muslim women want? The answers to these and other pertinent, provocative questions are provided not by experts, extremists, or talking heads, but by empirical evidence — the voices of a billion Muslims.

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- Well, it's not the "SILENCED majority" who speaks, is it?
Imagine you begin to see the Nazis gaining influence in Germany. Imagine they have already killed several thousand Jews and are talking of killing more. Imagine the German people are doing nothing to stop them, and are afraid to speak out against them. Then imagine somebody writes a book saying, "What are you worried about? Nine in ten Germans are moderate. Only one in ten Germans think the concentration camps are COMPLETELY justified. So stop saying there's a problem with Germany. If you keep saying there's a problem with Germany, you're nothing but a paranoid Germaphobe." Imagine that, and you'd have something like "Who Speaks for Islam?"

Espositio and Mogahed reassure Westerners that Muslims are just like Westerners, but caution them that Muslims are totally different and therefore Westerners have to be careful not to offend them. (I know, it's confusing.) To prove their point, they use a set of ... Read More

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- Misses the major points regarding Western distaste for Islam
As I write this review ( On July 28 2008) the first headline of Google is about three women Sunni suicide bombers who have just murdered in Iraq fifty Shiite religious pilgrims. No doubt these three suicide bombers are a minority among the Sunnis of Iraq and the Sunnis of the world, who disapprove of murdering other Muslims. But the minority sets the tone and creates the reality.
This fact points out the weakness of this present book. It aims to show that the Islamic world is more diverse, more desirous and admiring of Democracy, more eager to learn modern Science and Technology, more deserving of Western respect than has it been given credit for being.It tries to undermine stereotypical views of Muslims as terrorists and suicide- bombers. And it presents much evidence that in the world of opinions Muslims are more moderate, more eager for accomodation with the United States and the West than is generally ... Read More

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- Finally giving the Muslim majority a voice
Well, this isn't a book for hate-mongers or fear-mongers. It is, however, a book that gives a voice to the Muslim majority, which is usually not consulted by the likes of Bill O'Reilly or Michael Savage or even moderate American media. Mostly, it's a summary of the huge, lengthy Gallup survey of Muslims in various countries. There are always flaws in surveys -- for example, if someone asked you if you wanted Christianity to be a source of law in the United States, your notion of Christianity might be enormously different from the next person's notion of it -- but at least this is the first time that Americans get to see roughly what Muslims really think...rather than mindlessly take the media's (sensationalist) word for it.

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- Does not do credit to the potential value of the survey
Review of Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think by John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed released March, 2008

Both John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed work for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, which claims as its mission providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslims around the world. Esposito is known in his own right as a Sunni convert to Islam and a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, famous for Muslim-Christian interfaith work, some of it funded by the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

This book is a very fast read based on Gallup's World Poll that seeks to address common, if biased, views of Muslims with the results of the survey claiming to represent the actual views of Muslims. Thus, it cannot be construed as representing an official Islamic viewpoint, but rather the views from a sample intended to represent 90% ... Read More

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