Secrets of the Koran

Secrets of the Koran by Don Richardson

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
It was interesting to read this book after having read Building Bridges and seeing how vastly different books on the same subject from a different angle can be. Building Bridges took a much kinder approach to the Koran and Islam whereas Secrets of the Koran's goal is to pretty much rip apart Mohammed, Islam and the Koran. A great part of the reason for the difference is that Building Bridges is designed to help Christians evangelize Muslims and therefore encourages the reader to be very careful about what they say. On the other hand Secrets purpose is tell the real truth about Islam with no sugar coating in light of the positive press that it has received from the liberal media and academics. They both have there weaknesses. Bridges weakness is that it tends to hold the Koran to highly. On the other hand the author of Secrets is at points unnecessarily sarcastic when there is no need to be. Because of that it can cause the reader to be distracted from the real arguments he is making. All in all it is a good book that does well a picking apart Islam. However, I would not recommend it for a Muslim because it would make them defensive because of the sarcasm.


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