George Bush Wrote an Incindiary Biography of Muhammed!

[On the Road]

Not our George, but an ancestor. At least according to an article in Al-Ahram. Apparently it has caused quite a stir in the Arabic world and Bush has been forced to respond:

President Bush, however, has seemed eager to distance himself from the author's views. The US State Department was quick to announce, last year, that the controversial work was authored by "a distant relative of the current president, five generations removed, but not his direct ancestor". The statement, posted on the department's Web site, also explained that the author's views' are the product of "more parochial times" and "have nothing to do with the attitudes of current President Bush, who is respectful of Islam as one of the world's great religions".

You can even download the entire book here.


George Bush
(June 12, 1796 – September 19, 1859)

(from the excellent summary of international articles Watching America, posted by ElsewheresDaughter)