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Title: Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes ISBN: 0-393-05204-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 12 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Pipes never ceases to amaze...
Comment: Daniel Pipes never ceases to amaze me. The amount of fiction included in this book which he tries to pass as fact is laughable. What isn't laughable is his intent to write books like this in order to drive a wedge between people of different ideologies. The rhetoric in this book doesn't seem to far away from the anti-Semitic propaganda that was banded about during the second world war towards Jews.
The point this fails to state is that this book is his own opinion not fact and as such this book should be read with that in mind or not at all.
Rating: 4
Summary: Daniel Pipes explains the threat of Militant Islam
Comment: After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2003, there have been a number of questions that keep coming up. For example here are some: Just who attacked the United States? Will they attack again? What do they want? How do we need to respond?
In "Militant Islam Reaches America" Daniel Pipes tries to answer some of these questions. Daniel Pipes has about a dozen books on various facets of the Middle East. He makes the distinction between "Islam" and "Militant Islam." He believes that "Islam" is not a threat to America or any Western Civilization, but that "Militant Islam" is a very, very serious threat.
The author traces Islam through history and mentions how for a long time that the religion of Islam was practiced by members of powerful civilizations, but that over the last couple hundred years most of the countries which practice Islam have fallen behind the Western World economically and politically. Part of the Militant Islam response is from people who want to make their contries powerful again. They are trying to use Islam to impose their will on their countries, and on other countries.
In many ways Militant Islam is more like Socialism or Communism. Those behind it are more concerned with power and trying to make other people follow them. The author points out that while we did lose several thousand people in the terrorist attacks on September 11th, Militant Islams are killing dozens and hundreds of Moderate and Traditional Islams each week.
Daniel Pipes mentions case after case where Militant Islams will not tolerate differences of opinions. They expect to win arguements more from their willingness to inflict violence than to show the rightness of their beliefs. For example there is evidence that the records written a hundred years after Muhammad may not be an accurate statement of what the Prophet Muhammad taught. But when scholars or priests try to explore the evedience, the Militant Islam response is to threaten violence.
Daniel Pipes says one of the best things the United States can do to effectively fight Militant Islam is to support the Moderate and Traditional Islams, and help them to defend themselves.
In his research the author has come to the conclusion that there are only a few tens of thousands of extremists who want to kill Americans, and are willing to die doing so, but that there are tens of millions of Militant Islams who do want to force other Islams, and the rest of the world, to follow their version of Islam.
The author spends the second half of the book talking about Islam and Militant Islam in America. Most Moderate and Traditional Islams are happy to be in America, and are useful productive members of our society. Militant Islams have said time and again that they want to change America to become Islam. The author mentions how many times when the police arrest someone who has broken the law, that if the person is a member of Militant Islam, the rest of the Militant Islam community rallies around them. Or when the media reports unfavorablly news on Militant Islam, the community of Militant Islam will harass, try to intimidate, or even file law-suits.
The author says America does need to defende itself internally from Militant Islam, but it doesn't really need any new laws or organizations. We just need to enforce the laws, so that when Militant Islam breaks the law, they are put in jail.
From the book the answers to the questions above are: Militant Islam has been attacking America for years. They will continue to try to force America to become more Islam. They want power. We need to be aware of them, and to support Moderate & Traditional Islam.
Overall the book is easy to read. The author writes well. I found it fascinating and informative.
Rating: 5
Summary: A "Must Read" book.
Comment: Every literate person, particularly every American, simply MUST read this book. We are "at war!" We need to "know" our enemy. If you don't read anything else, read the concluding chapter of the book: WHO IS THE ENEMY!
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Title: Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold ISBN: 0895261359 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us by Steven Emerson ISBN: 0743234359 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West by Robert Spencer ISBN: 0895261006 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 03 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0679642811 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith by Robert Spencer, David Pryce-Jones ISBN: 1893554589 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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