Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A Piece of Orientalist Junk

Cook hates the Qur'an, as he does Muslims. One can see it clearly in this book's 164 sarcastic pages. Dripping with snideness and flippancy, this academic screed tells little about what the Qur'an actually says. Instead it conveys the prejudices and preoccupations of Orientalist scholarship---largely concerned with maintaining a negative view of Islam in order to further various bigoted and colonialist agendas. To say, as a previous reviewer did, that this book is favorable to Islam not shows one's terminal illiteracy but also testifies to the power of Orientalist propaganda. For a brief introduction of worth, I recommend the enjoyable and informative Introducing Muhammad by Ziauddin Sardar.