Rules:
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages
This week's theme is action.
The conflict wracking the modern world is not, I think, best understood as a "clash of civilizations," if that proposition means we're-different-so-we-must-fight-until-there's-only-one-of-us. It's better understood as the friction generated by two mismatched world histories intersecting. Muslims were a crowd of people going somewhere. Europeans and their offshoots were a crowd of people going somewhere. When the two crowds crossed paths, much bumping and crashing resulted, and the crashing is still going on.
~page 355, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Muslim Eyes by Tamim Ansary
This is a great book that (as you can see by the title) looks at world history from a very different perspective than Westerners are familiar with reading about in their high school textbooks. Jon recommended this book and I'm glad I picked it up.
This is a great book that (as you can see by the title) looks at world history from a very different perspective than Westerners are familiar with reading about in their high school textbooks. Jon recommended this book and I'm glad I picked it up.
Great action scene.
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