Brave, But Mostly Wrong

This book is a collection of several years’ worth of George Jonas’s columns on the theme of Islam that appeared in the National Post and in syndication across the CanWest News Service. Only one of the more than 50 pieces is pre-9/11; the latest was published shortly after the end of the Israeli-Lebanon 2006 war. They comment on 9/11 and the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Muslim nations with nuclear weapons, the Iraq war, the clash of civilizations (East versus West), the Danish cartoon controversy, Dutch politics, Chechnya, Israel, immigration and multiculturalism, the UN, the UN and, finally, the UN (also known to Jonas as “al Qaeda’s political arm in New York”). Taken as a whole, these columns reveal that Jonas has two primary targets in view: militant radical Islamism and liberalism. In his less controlled outbursts he sees the latter as working in the service of the former.

By Islamism, Jonas means that arm of Islam that seeks total conflict with the West...