Author : Walid Shoebat
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 9780977102181
Proposes that the Middle East and the Islamic faith--rather than Europe and Christianity--will initiate the End of Times, discussing the connections between the Bible, current world events, the Koran, and the Antichrist.
Author : Raymond Haberski, Jr.
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813553180
Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition like war. Raymond Haberski argues that since 1945 the common moral assumptions expressed in an American civil religion have become increasingly defined by the nation's experience with war. God and War traces how three great postwar “trials”—the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror—have revealed the promise and perils of an American civil religion. Throughout the Cold War, Americans combined faith in God and faith in the nation to struggle against not only communism but their own internal demons. The Vietnam War tested whether America remained a nation "under God," inspiring, somewhat ironically, an awakening among a group of religious, intellectual and political leaders to save the nation's soul. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 behind us and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, Americans might now explore whether civil religion can exist apart from the power of war to affirm the value of the nation to its people and the world.
Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520930614
Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.
Author : Walid Shoebat
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
A former Palestine Liberation Organization terrorist details his rejection of militant Islam and acceptance of traditional Christian interpretation of biblical prophecies regarding Israel.
Author : Michael Scheuer
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1597973084
Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger. According to the author, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetor.
Author : Walid Shoebat
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
A self-confessed former Islamic terrorist reveals why he and his former colleagues commit acts of violence and genocide, and are eager for the next opportunity, in a book that also discusses how to defeat terrorism.
Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195168860
Of the intellectual underpinnings of the more radical elements of contemporary Islam.
Author : Jessica Stern
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061755397
For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common. Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how terrorist organizations are formed by opportunistic leaders who—using religion as both motivation and justification—recruit the disenfranchised. She depicts how moral fervor is transformed into sophisticated organizations that strive for money, power, and attention. Jessica Stern's extensive interaction with the faces behind the terror provide unprecedented insight into acts of inexplicable horror, and enable her to suggest how terrorism can most effectively be countered. A crucial book on terrorism, Terror in the Name of God is a brilliant and thought-provoking work.
Author : Mary R. Habeck
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300122572
A penetrating look into the inner logic of al-Qa'ida and like-minded extremist groups by which they justify September 11 and other terrorist attacks includes specific ideologies of jihadism, a new movement that allows members to call for the destruction of democracy and to murder innocent men, women, and children.
Author : Matthew Levitt
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2024-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1805263838
Hezbollah — Lebanon’s ‘Party of God’ — is a multifaceted organisation: it is a powerful political party in Lebanon, a Shia religious and social movement, Lebanon’s largest militia, a close ally of Iran, and a terrorist organisation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including recently declassified government documents, court records, and personal interviews with intelligence officials, Matthew Levitt examines Hezbollah’s beginnings, its first violent forays in Lebanon, and then its terrorist activities and criminal enterprises abroad in Europe, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and finally in North America. He also discusses Hezbollah’s unit dedicated to supporting Palestinian militant groups and the group’s involvement in training and supporting insurgents who fought US troops in post-Saddam Iraq. The book concludes with a look at Hezbollah’s integral and ongoing role in Iran’s ‘shadow war’ with Israel and the West, including plots targeting civilians around the world. Levitt shows convincingly that Hezbollah’s willingness to deploy violence at home and abroad, its global reach, and its proxy-patron relationship with the Iranian regime are all matters worthy of the utmost concern.
