The Muslim Economic Trap is a book about Muslim customs and beliefs that stifle economic growth.  The attacks on America by al Qaeda on September 11, 2001 left many Americans confused and angry.  Carol Fuller, the Author attended a Christian-Muslim Dialogue group in her metropolitan area and was very impressed with the intelligence and goodness of its participants.  But she did not find clear answers to her multiple questions.  Carol began to research and read a great variety of books and articles to help her understand and relate to Muslim customs and beliefs.  Some experts wrote that terrorism arose out of poverty and political weaknesses which led a few of them—quoting verses of the Qur’an selectively—to violence. 

As Carol’s notes grew into a book she was peeling back layers in the development of the Islamic religion-economic system that frustrates the creative energies of ordinary men and excludes ordinary women.  She was writing the very book that she had searched the libraries and bookstores for unsuccessfully, and economic history of Islam-how people made their living through fourteen long centuries, culminating today in certain extravagantly rich governments and generally submissive populations.  Such a history and analysis of cause and effect will not be found outside this book.

About the Author

Carol Fuller was born in a small town in Wyoming, where, she says, "I acquired a respect for personal independence. This attitude has been a guide in my study in comparing Muslim and Western treatment of productive property."

She published a 200-page book in 1999 called A Slice of American History, 1623 to 1956, which includes history of early Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, the Civil War, and Minnesota using the stories of a family as they moved westward. She is the author of a biography of Stanley L. Myre, which was included in the book, Greybull.

Carol has been active in the Minnesota Mental Health Association (vice-president) and the League of Women Voters (chair of the Leagues of the Metropolitan Area), and in developing support for the education of primary physicians.