Title: Why the West is best : a Muslim apostate's defense of liberal democracy /
Authors: Ibn Warraq.
Publisher: Encounter Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Civilization, Western Philosophy; East and West; Values Western countries.
Contents: Preface -- Prologue: the superiority of western values in eight minutes -- New York, New York, or life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- What is the West? Greece, Rome and Jerusalem. why the west? the reasons for its success -- Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, or the myth of eastern spirituality and western materialism -- Slavery, racism, imperialism, and abolition -- Self-criticism, irony, objective knowledge and science -- Two freedoms -- Conclusion: how to defend western civilization.