Analyst's note:  This book is worthy of our consideration of trying to understand that there is NO such thing as Islamic democracy.

Andrew McCarthy's second book The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (Encounter Books May 2010) begins with the words: "And so he bowed" referring to April 2, 2009, when only a few months into his term America's 44^th President's reverentially bowed to Saudi King Abdullah, a moment captured in a photograph that is being recirculated as the Arab/Muslim world has exploded into a violent rampage against the United States. Was it to protect America's oil supply? No, as his subsequent obsequious Cairo speech disclosed, it was abnegation of the leader of the free world to a tyrant who is the keeper of the holy Muslim city of Mecca, home of Mohammed and site of pilgrimage and travel for millions of Muslims. Furthermore, The World Assembly of Moslem Youth (WAMI) is a collaboration between the Saudi government and the Moslem Brotherhood whose chief aim is to "arm the Muslim youth with full confidence in the supremacy of the Islamic system over other systems."

In the conclusion, McCarthy laments craven American response to a concatenation of Moslem outrages and adds very presciently: "A half a world away, King Abdullah smiled. He knew a bow when he heard one."

The Moslem Brotherhood and assorted tribes, sects and radicals also heard the bow, while American pundits and commentators, many of whom were alert to the depredations of Communism, but seemed either blind or indifferent to totalitarian Islam, were virtually giddy with the Arab Spring.

Andrew McCarthy begins his new book "Spring Fever: The illusion of Islamic Democracy" with the following words: "Well, that didn't take very long." Effectively, his (Morsi's)election has converted Egypt from a military dictatorship to a sharia dictatorship. As this book argues, that is the end to which "Islamic democracy" leads. [....]