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# Caliphate Mass Market Paperback – 23 Feb. 2010

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    Prophetic and depressingly accurate view of our not too distant future
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2016*

Prophetic and depressingly accurate view of our not too distant future in Europe (unless Europe wakes up to the realisation that it is being colonized by a hostile force....).Well written, accurate in its depiction of a very sick culture, and a scathing condemnation of a woolly-headed population whose "leaders" will allow them and their culture to be destroyed by invasion disguised as immigration.For those who cry "racist" - No. This book is about a culture and a way of life utterly foreign and hostile to the civilised west. A culture and way of life which considers it right to murder anyone who disagrees with them.Read it and be warned.....

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    An engaging if disturning read
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2014*

I found this book to be unpleasant to read but that isn’t a condemnation: it’s about an unpleasant subject matter. Some of the sex scenes were quite graphic but none of them pornographic. The violence, too, was nasty but – as I said earlier – violence is meant to be nasty: this isn’t ‘Saturday morning pictures’. I can't add much to the plot discussions that hasn't already been covered by other reviewers, but I will say that I take issue with the accusations of racism – the author is clearly not racist. He doesn’t like religious extremists much but that’s not racism: that’s just common sense. He doesn’t like Europeans much either. But everyone’s entitled to an opinion. I rejoice that I live in a society that this sort of book can be published in – not possible in many areas of the world. Will I read it again (as I often do with really good books). Probably not. Would I recommend it to a friend? Yes I probably would.

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    Frightening dystopian picture of a world torn by religious war
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2008*

This is a "future history" novel which charts how the next century could be dominated by religious wars which destroy human lives on an even worse scale than the national and ethnic wars of the 20th century.Imagine that in 2103 the so-called "Islamic state" which is currently (January 2015) running parts of Iraq and Syria has brought half the world under their murderous and barbaric rule, and the other half of the world has become virulently anti-Islamic in a way which isn't very attractive either, and you have a good idea of the dystopian world presented in "Caliphate."The most frightening thing about this book is that when I first read it in 2008 I thought it was presenting a "worst-case scenario" view but with the rise of the so-called "Islamic State," which does indeed aspire to create a Caliphate like the one in this novel, it in danger of looking prophetic.My original review included the following sentence, which I no longer think is tenable:"Many muslims, by no means all of whom are extremists, will consider this novel Islamophobic. I do not share that view but I do understand it."That was a reasonable opinion in 2008, but it isn't now. The savagery and cruelty of the real-world caliphate which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is currently trying to establish, starting in Iraq and Syria, are all too similar to those of the one depicted in this book - if anything the so-called "Islamic state" is even worse.The novel "Caliphate" begins in 2103 AD, in a dystopian future in which the world is split into two warring power blocks, in both of which freedoms and rights which we take for granted have been removed. The Caliphate, an empire which includes continental Europe, is run by Taliban-style Islamofascist extremists who treat all women and the christian minority like dirt, impose the death penalty for converting from Islam or for being gay, and so on. The USA has become a militaristic empire which wages a cold war against the Caliphate and a hot one against Canadian "rebels" (e.g. those who resist the forcible annexation of their country) and any other country which might allow Islam a foothold in the Americas.The story revolves around two victims of the Caliphate's tyranny: Petra, a German girl who is taken from her family and sold into slavery to pay a tax levied on the Christian minority, and her brother Hans, who is conscripted as a Janissary.One of the few Muslims who shows Petra kindness teaches her to read, enabling her to understand the one family posession she has been able to keep: the diary which her great-grandmother, Gabrielle von Minden, began to keep in 2003 and which explains how the ghastly world Petra is living in came into being.Although it presents the Islamic dictatorship in the book as a ghastly tyranny, the history in the book also has the United States grossly over-react to Al-Qaeda atrocities with terrible crimes of its own, and there is no suggestion in the book that the author would encourage or justify those actions. Kratman is criticising both appeasement and murderous over-reaction alike, and warning how a situation where each side responds to atrocities with fresh atrocity could spiral out of control.One of the saddest moments of the book is the diary entry in which Gabrielle's viewpoint flips from one pole to the other. She has spent her life to that point bending over backwards to excuse Muslim extremists in the belief that this is tolerance for Islam (Kratman makes a good argument that actually this sells moderate Muslims down the river.) Gabrielle has previously always blamed her own culture for the actions of islamic extremists. However, when she is finally confronted with an inexcusable and horrible crime which it would be almost impossible for any human being to forgive, in her pain and anger Gabrielle comes out with the most shocking thing a 21st century German liberal could possibly say.Nowhere does the book suggest that either Christians or Muslims have a monopoly of good or evil: the Christian and Muslim characters alike in the book include some who are good and some who are evil. (There are no atheists in 2103 AD in the book, mainly because the Caliphate has exterminated them in the area it controls.)Secondly, while Kratman makes clear in the afterword that he is not suggesting that a future history like the one in this book is inevitable, he is probably right that if we are stupid enough to let it happen, much worse wars of religion than we have yet seen could indeed occur - and it is worth thinking about how to avoid that outcome. If this book makes people think about how to strike the right balance which achieves religious toleration without either appeasing extremists or victimising the innocent, that's a good thing.Alternatively you can read it just as an exciting fantasy.

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