The only two proselytizing faiths in the world are pitted against each other in a struggle for ascendancy, says writer, speaker, and activist Hassan, both striving to impose its religious ideology on the rest of the world, by force or persuasion. Head of the progressive Muslim Canadian Congress, she compares the evangelical messages and visions of Christianity and Islam not as they are understood in dusty tomes of the learned, but in current popular discourse from periodicals, books, speeches, broadcasting, and web sites. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)