America, Islam and the War of Ideas
Author | : Larry Pintak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Larry Pintak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lawrence Pintak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Islam in mass media |
ISBN | : 9781786804020 |
The abyss of misunderstanding and misreporting in the US and Arab media.
Author | : Mahmood Mamdani |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005-06-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 038551591X |
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? Mamdani dispels the idea of “good” (secular, westernized) and “bad” (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities. The presumption that there are “good” Muslims readily available to be split off from “bad” Muslims masks a failure to make a political analysis of our times. This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America’s embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam. Mamdani writes with great insight about the Reagan years, showing America’s embrace of the highly ideological politics of “good” against “evil.” Identifying militant nationalist governments as Soviet proxies in countries such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan, the Reagan administration readily backed terrorist movements, hailing them as the “moral equivalents” of America’s Founding Fathers. The era of proxy wars has come to an end with the invasion of Iraq. And there, as in Vietnam, America will need to recognize that it is not fighting terrorism but nationalism, a battle that cannot be won by occupation. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is a provocative and important book that will profoundly change our understanding both of Islamist politics and the way America is perceived in the world today.
Author | : Sherifa Zuhur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Communication policy |
ISBN | : |
Never before have Americans paid so much attention to Islam and Muslim ideology. Although efforts have been made to separate mainstream views from extremist principles, Muslims feel that many of their basic beliefs are under attack in the ongoing war of ideas. The author explores why, surveying a broad swath of accusations and efforts to change Muslim and Islamist ideas and institutions.
Author | : Daniel Pipes |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Islam and politics |
ISBN | : 9780393325317 |
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."
Author | : Robert Barry Satloff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Robert Satloff takes aim at the conventional wisdom concerning the post-9/11 " battle of ideas" and offers a bold, hopeful, and unapologetic vision for U.S. public diplomacy in the Middle East.
Author | : Edward E Curtis IV |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1479861219 |
Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant form of American liberalism has prevented the political assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetorical support for their acceptance. Drawing on examples ranging from the political rhetoric of the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and 1960s to the symbolic use of fallen Muslim American service members in the 2016 election cycle, Curtis shows that the efforts of Muslim Americans to be regarded as full Americans have been going on for decades, yet never with full success. Curtis argues that policies, laws, and political rhetoric concerning Muslim Americans are quintessential American political questions. Debates about freedom of speech and religion, equal justice under law, and the war on terrorism have placed Muslim Americans at the center of public discourse. How Americans decide to view and make policy regarding Muslim Americans will play a large role in what kind of country the United States will become, and whether it will be a country that chooses freedom over fear and justice over prejudice.
Author | : Sherifa Zuhur |
Publisher | : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Never before have Americans paid so much attention to Islam and Muslim ideology. Although efforts have been made to separate mainstream views from extremist principles, Muslims feel that many of their basic beliefs are under attack in the ongoing war of ideas. The author explores why, surveying a broad swath of accusations and efforts to change Muslim and Islamist ideas and institutions.
Author | : Mahmood Mamdani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : 9789694024905 |
"Dispels the idea of 'good' (secular, westernized) and 'bad' (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these judgments refer to political rather than cultural or religious identities ... Argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America's embrace of proxy war after its defeat in Vietnam"--Jacket.
Author | : John Hughes |
Publisher | : Hoover Inst Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780817911645 |
Published in association with the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.