Regarding yesterday's post on the debate over Martin Amis's The Second Plane, Laila Lalami raises an excellent point:

"I find these disagreements quite healthy, but also very amusing, as it seems no one thinks it necessary or useful to ask a reviewer of the Muslim persuasion to take a look at The Second Plane, a book that is, after all, largely concerned with Muslims: their religion, their beliefs, their politics, their life in Britain, and the violent encounters of the jihadist among them with the West.... Shouldn't the reading public have a chance to find out what one of the people he seems so concerned about make of his work?"