This book is filled with distortion and hyperbole. It would be tedious to point out every single example of the author (usually referred to in the UK as 'Mad Mel') being 'economical with the truth', so just to give one example, she mentions a protest march held by fanatics in response to the Danish cartoons affair and claims that there were thousands of marchers, whereas in fact, there were no more then a hundred protesters. This book didn't do well in the UK, because thankfully, Manichean Paranoia isn't as widespread in the UK as it sadly is in the US.