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September 6, 2008

Coming Sunday in The Sun: Islam and gold

Against UsOn Sunday, the YOU section offers a review of two books that tackle the issue of radical Islam: They Must Be Stopped by Brigitte Gabriel and Against Us by Jim Sciutto.

Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who immigrated to the United States in 1989 and founded the antiterrorist lobby ACT! for America, says core principles of Islam are behind the crusade to subjugate "infidels" throughout the world. But her book is simplistic and shrill. She asserts that Muslim radicals are "overtaking Western Europe" with "riots, rape, murder, beatings and burnings" and contends that "sensitive positions" at the Pentagon are filled with "Muslims about whose background and loyalty we know nothing."

Sciutto, the senior foreign correspondent for ABC News, says political realities in the Middle East have an enormous impact on the recruitment of anti-American terrorists. "Not purely or even principally religious," he argues, Islamic extremism "is the protest movement of choice for a generation of young Muslims."

In the Maryland Closeup section's Backstory column, read about two Baltimore boys who in 1934 found a hoard of gold coins buried in a rowhouse cellar. Their discovery triggered a drawn-out legal battle over ownership, a tale chrcnicled in Treasure in the Cellar by Leonard Augsberger (Maryland Historical Society). 
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Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is the Maryland Editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.
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