I stated in an earlier post that we needed more moderate leaders in the World, especially in the Middle East. Unfortunately, we just lost one in Benazir Bhutto. She had just finished her masterful book, "Reconciliation", when she met her untimely death. It is a manifesto for our times, rebuking Extremist Ideology point by point, explaining the moderate and more feminist interpretations of Islam, promoting dialogue, explaining what the West can do to defeat terrorism, and rejecting Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations".
After I attended Samantha Power's presentation at Politics and Prose, I went to BookTV to see if it would be scheduled for airing. It was not, but I found another segment that was hosted by Dr. Akbar Ahmed, who I mentioned in my earlier article helped inspire me to write. Dr. Akbar, who is Pakistani, interviewed Mark Siegel who asssisted Ms. Bhutto with the book.
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9110&SectionName=After%20Words&PlayMedia=Yes
So I went out and bought the book. I strongly recommend it.
