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Shahnaz Khan. Toronto: Women's Press, 2002. 152 pp. $24.96 CDN; $19.95 US sc.
"Operation Iraqi Freedom" seems to have achieved what primarily was expected of it - the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. Enormous impervious tasks, however, lie ahead, both in Iraq and in North America. Whereas in Iraq, restoration of some kind of promised mode of democracy is to be implemented, the far more daunting task of understanding and assimilating the wounded psyches of Muslims inhabitants of the U.S. and of Canada needs to be prioritized. Especially since the Gulf War of 1991, the Muslims in Canada and the U.S. have been unjustifiably suspected of unpredictable behavior on account of their assumed fundamentalist religious loyalties. Contrary to a sweeping general impression, the Muslim community constitutes itself as a Diaspora within the North American Diaspora, with Muslims of...