John Krakauer makes the claim that Greg Mortenson, although a professed humanitarian, uses fear mongering to make his book more exciting. On page 46, he quotes a passage from Three Cups of Tea about Wahhabi madrassas, and then writes, “From someone who presents himself as a steadfast of anti-Muslim bigotry, such fear mongering is hard to square.” This claim is partially substantiated, because although he does have a little bit of good evidence to show that, it is not varied, and his choice to include dubious evidence mars his ethos. Krakauer quotes Nosheen Ali, a “sociologist with a doctorate from Cornell who has conducted extensive research in Gilgit-Baltisan”(44), “The subtext of Mortenson’s book, she rebukes, is rooted in a narrative of
