Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto. 2008, 328 pages. This interesting book was finished just days before Bhutto, a candidate for the Pakistani Parliament, was assassinated by Islamic militants. She tries to reconcile Islamic theology with moderation, democracy, women’s rights and tolerance, and argues for the West to take a long-range view of relationships with Muslim countries. She believes that radical Muslims and Western observers who write against them do not balance the violent verses with the peaceful ones, not realizing that mainstream Islam regards the peaceful verses as having been abrogated. In the end, unfortunately, she was a victim of her own naiveté.
