Is the West Best?
Author Ibn Warraq, Guests Debate New Book at St. Francis
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — St. Francis College with Telos Press, Encounter Books and The New York Chapter of the National Association of Scholars will present a debate on the virtues of liberal Western Civilization compared to its Islamic rivals as expressed in author Ibn Warraq’s new book, Why the West is Best, on Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in St. Francis College’s Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education.
The discussion, moderated by St. Francis College Scholar in Residence Fred Siegel, will feature Warraq, one of America’s leading scholars on the Quron and author of Virgins? What Virgins?; NYU Professor and author Paul Berman (The Flight of the Intellectuals, Terror and Liberalism); and Sohrab Ahmari of the Henry Jackson Society, a co-editor of the forthcoming Arab Spring Dreams.