[Slate] The Architect of 9/11

Daniel Brook gets a lot wrong in his discussion of Mohammed Atta in the three entries of The Architect of 9/11.

Brook refers to The Looming Tower as if it is more than another piece of Zionist propaganda and disinformatsia from the New Yorker.

Even worse -- in the third entry Brook assumes that because the Bab al-Nasr neighborhood historically was religiously mixed, it was historically an untraditional Islamic neighborhood.

Yet the discussion of Atta's architectural ideas is fascinating, and after reading Brook's entries one can perhaps almost understand how Atta might be able to work with Khalid Sheykh Mohammed, but would these two men really subordinate themselves to the leadership of Usama Bin Ladin?

I find it hard to believe.

Anyway, Taming Obama by Pruning Advisers links to material on KSM while [Patricia Crone] What do we actually know about Mohammed? could help put some of Brook's orientalist misconceptions about Islam and Islamic culture into perspective. Sphere: Related Content