Horribly racist and uninformed book. Whenever the author jumps around time and places and makes reference to stuff that happened 2000 year ago to comment on current events it becomes really clear why he calls some cultures "inscrutable" - sure because he doesn't know the language, only talks to Westernized elites, and he himself mixes up time and space. I am baffled that this wasn't edited. I understand why it was published, he was a well known journalist and any book by him was a guaranteed bestseller, but it's really negligence. As a simple example, there are lots of spelling mistakes of Turkish place names, a language that uses the Latin alphabet (so no transcription issues, unlike with his very idiosyncratic spelling of Arabic terms), and Turks are the largest minority in Germany, so somebody really should have checked. But mainly it's wrong and racist.

Horrible book.