Tosh - Rated 
This is just an islamophobic rant, pure and simple. Phillips hasn't even bothered to do basic research I'd expect from a child writing a school project, so to expect any kind of insight from this is beyond wishful thinking.
The generalisations and stereotypes, the blatant falsehoods, the ambient racism, all of it fairly reeks of Daily Mail-brand white supremacist nationalism. Phillips is afraid of brown-skinned men with beards, because she thinks they're spoiling her precious little country.
Although Ms. Phillips is evidently trying to teach us a thing or two about the reality of Muslim culture, what we're really learning about is a pretty sordid truth about white middle-class Britain, how paranoid it is and the sort of trashy books it will produce to attempt to further its cause.
Worth Reading - Rated 
Very, very Daily Mail.
It goes something like this: we have become spineless; Judaeo-Christian values have been eroded; multi-culturalism, oh-dear-oh-dear-oh-dear; because we've given rights to minority groups like gay people, well, we can't really say 'no' to other minority groups.
Can't we just enforce 'incitement to hatred/violence' laws and bang the lot of them up/deport them?
That last point was my conclusion.
Another rant from Melanie Phillips. - Rated
This book comes from Melanie Phillips' own perspective. This is that Israel is like the British Army in 'Zulu' starring Michael Caine, standing up for civilization against hordes of screaming savages. If you share this view, you will love this book.
Resist the madness everyone!
At her very best , be shocked... - Rated 
Melanie Phillips is quite simply, devastatingly, well researched. Her knowledge is amazing and then presented in an argument that is almost invincible. She is very far from racist, which makes this all the more readable. She deals in fact, unpleasant though that fact is for some people in this world. If you want to understand the true nature of "Islamism" this book is an uncomfortable must read.It definately highlights the differences between "Islamism" and muslims. Which is why it is not racist at all. Sadly, to understand a possible scenario for England's future, this book will paint a devastating picture.
Required reading for bigots and racists - Rated
This is a nasty little book of bile and bigotry, which seeks to exploit people's legitimate concerns and fears about terrorism by fostering prejudice against all Muslims. Melanie Phillips has such a deep seated and visceral hatred for Islam and for Muslims that one has to worry about her state of mind. So deep is her prejudice that she is willing to twist facts and distort the historical record in order to make her point.
No where are the distortions more blatant than when Phillips deals with the issue of Palestine and Israel. She claims Palestinians "were not driven out of Israel", a view no historian would support. She characterises the 1967 war as one of self defence, omitting to mention that it was launched, without warning, by Israel, which rather negates her claim that the subsequent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza were legal, a view totally at odds with international law.
Even more bizarre is her suggestion that Palestinians resist Israel occupation not because they want their land back and not because they have rights but because, as Muslims, they have a genocidal hatred of Jews. She says "The fight against Israel is not fundamentally about land. It is about hatred of the Jews."
If I were to occupy Melanie Phillips house on the grounds that my God had given it to me, how convenient it would be for me to be able - while beating and kicking her - to claim that her attempts to recover her home were not about property but rather her racist hatred of me. As it does not fit her thesis that the Palestinian struggle is all down to Muslim hatred of Jews, you'll find no mention in this book of such inconvenient facts such as that ten percent of Palestinians are Christian, that many of the resistance groups have been led by Christian and not Muslim Palestinians and that most resistance groups are avowedly secular.
It isn't only Muslims and the Palestinians which are targets for Phillips mad world view. When a Church of England bishop said "We have to look forward to a society in which Muslims and Christians live together amicably ..." she condemns him, and describes the comment as an "outrage".
Her view of Britain and the British is weird and divorced from any reality. Britain is "a decadent society weakened by alarming tendencies towards social and cultural suicide". She claims that after 9/11 most Britains felt the Americans had it coming to them and that "British public opinion has ... been captured by the jihad". Maybe in your part of Britain, Melanie, not in mine.
At times Phillips can't help exposing her essentially racist attitudes and agenda. She talks about how a visit to northern England "makes you feel that you have stepped into a village in the Punjab" and appears distressed that there are "Muslim-run stores". Can you imagine how Phillips would react if someone were to write about "Jewish-run stores"?
She makes great play of supposedly anti-Semitic incidents in Britain, although on examination these incidents include students distributing leaflets supporting the Palestinians and the display of a Palestinian flag. No mention is made of the far more widespread Islamophomic violence to which British Muslim are exposed every day.
She even mocks the very concept of Islamophobia as "the thought crime which seeks to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and demonise those who tell the truth". Yet if one substitutes the words anti-Semitism and Israel for Islamophobia and Islam, does not Phillips aspire to be the high priestess of those who vilify and smear anyone who makes any criticism of Israel whoever mild, however well founded in fact?
Don't bother to look for sources for the more surprising quotes which litter this book. In virtually every case no primary source is cited and instead the reader is referred to submissions by Zionist lobby groups or articles in Conrad Black's `Jewish Chronicle'.
So what would Phillips do to save Britain from itself? Read her final chapter and fear. She would repeal the Human Right Act, introduce special courts, "prevent the practice of Islamism", ban the Muslim Association of Britain, "abolish the doctrine of multiculturalism", introduce strict immigration controls and end "the culture of equal entitlement ushered in by the application of secular human rights" , whatever that might mean.
So, it is hardly surprising that Phillips book is required reading in far right groups such as the BNP.
Here's the rub: if someone were to write a book about Jews which adopted the same tone as Phillips does towards Muslims - the slack generalisations, the distortions, the stereotyping, the mockery of their fears of being assaulted because of their religion and the frankly racist attitudes - then that book would quite rightly be condemned (indeed, would it find a publisher?). And who would be in the front of the crown, hissing and screaming her outrage? Why, Melanie Phillips of course.
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