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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsMilitant Islam Reaches Americaby Daniel Pipes
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Long before September 11, 2001, Daniel Pipes publicly warned Americans that militant Islam had declared war on America--yet sadly, Americans failed to take heed. The publication of Militant Islam Reaches America finally brought Pipes the attention he deserves. Dividing his work into two parts, Pipes first defines militant Islam, stressing the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and the ideology of militant Islam. He then discusses the relatively new subject of Islam in the United States, and how it has developed rapidly in the last decade. In Militant Islam Reaches America, the product of thirty years of extensive research, Pipes provides one of the most incisive examinations of the growing radical Islamic movement ever written.
The paperback edition includes a new essay, "Jihad and the Professors." Book News Annotation:The enemy of the United States is much more than Al Qaeda, declares Pipes (director of the Middle East Forum, a conservative think tank) it is "militant Islam" (or Islamism) which is a "global affliction" that is "the country's most worrisome, long-term opponent." In 24 loosely connected and previously published essays, he explores the nature of Islamism and discusses Islam in the United States. Among the arguments he makes are the assertions that there is no such thing as moderate Islamism, that there is no correlation between poverty and "militant Islam," that American political attitudes towards Islamism echo the divides of the Cold War, that Islamists in the United States seek to impose Islamic law on the country, and that violence and intimidation is shutting down frank discussion of Islamism the United States. This is a paperback reprint of the 2002 edition.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Dividing his work into two parts, Pipes first defines militant Islam, stressing the large and crucial difference between Islam, the faith, and the ideology of militant Islam. He then discusses the subject of Islam in the US and how it has developed rapidly since the early 1990s.
Synopsis:One of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date.
About the AuthorDaniel Pipes is the director of the Middle East Forum and a columnist for the New York Post and the Jerusalem Post. He has served in the departments of State and Defense and has taught at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. He lives in Philadelphia.
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