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Books : Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a TimeBrowse or Search and Buy Online our Best Sellers Shopping Sales of Books and Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time. Rating:  - Inspirational, well-written, fantasticAn incredibly inspirational book. Greg Mortenson has been working incredibly hard in one of the world's most desolate and ignored areas of the world. This is his story and will give you a glimpse into the importance of being the change you would like to see. Rating: - Great bookI just have to disagree with reviewers who somehow got the impression that Greg Mortenson built his schools single-handedly or claimed that he did. One of the best features of the book, for me, was how much credit he gave to the local people, and how much he leaned on them, which I think he knew was the key to truly helping them. Give a man a fish and all that. Also I didn't find that the authors claimed to be "fighting terrorism" (and even mention in the end that they fought hard to pull "terrorism" out of the subtitle) for which some reviewers criticized them. I got the impression the goal was just to help some folks, and it spiraled from there. Great book! Rating:  - MotivationThis was an interesting read but not exactly my cup of tea. My hat is off to those who sacrifice much to the help of others in need and I am also amazed at people that do crazy things like climb mountains. Greg does both. I would rather stay home and argue about the price of lumber in my own town, thank you. But it tells us a lot about a man in full when they do things like this. Thanks for giving me a virtual opportunity to do crazy things or live vicariously through you Greg! Rating: - inspiringI can't believe one man has accomplished so much. He is inspiring to all of us. Rating: - Complex Problems / Simple SolutionsThree Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin is a book that everyone should read because while terrorism flourishes and we justifiably but unwisely unleash tremendous firepower, we destroy the lives of countless innocents and create unimaginable suffering, hatred and dispair. This book has great relevance. It is powerfully inspiring and offers a kind of realism that has already demonstrated its capacity to make a difference. This is the true (and ongoing) story of a mountain climber (Mortenson) who was lost on a glacier during a failed K2 attempt in 1993, 8 years before Islamic terrorist crashed jetliners into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Confused from altitude sickness, exposure, and exhaustion, he stumbled into a remote Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health. This is where the story begins. The rest is an account of his entirely gripping and largely successful struggles to build schools for Muslim girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is currently educating more than 24,000 children in these regions. The people of the regions, various Muslim sects, desperately want schools. They see Mortonson's efforts as a helping hand offering to lift them into the future. This is not a religious or sectarian endeavor, but a humanitarian one that vividly and concretely demonstrates the power for good inherent in our capacity for non-ideological response to human need. In Infidel--another book well worth reading--former Dutch parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali, recounts her life as an Muslim woman, how her associate, Theodore van Gough, was brutally murdered by an Islamic fundamentalist, and how she receives death threats because together she and van Gough made of video about Islam's devastating affect on the lives of women under its sway. Mortenson holds that Islam is not the cause of terrorism, but lack of education--especially lack of education for girls--creates and perpetuates the conditions in which terrorist ideologies thrive. He ought to know. He has been creating peace and goodwill for years by building schools for Muslim girls. Mortenson is also the person who identified and told congress and the Pentagon that the source of middle-eastern terrorism is the Islamic madrasah movement that is exporting Sunni Wahabism from Saudi Arabia throughout the Middle East. But he points out that not all madrasahs produce terrorists. However, those that do, produce a lot of them. They produced the Taliban. The problems are complex; certainly not as simple as an equation between Islam and terrorism. But despite this complexity, Mortenson's solution is simple, direct, and effective. His work is proof that we can make a huge, positive difference by offering the no-strings-attached, non-ideological helping hand he offers. Some reviewers have said that this book is not well written, and I must agree that it could have been better written. However, it is not badly written, and what it lacks in finesse it more than makes up for in the tale it tells, the enthusiasm with which it tells that tale, and the timely wisdom it offers. |