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Title:
With God on Our Side: Politics & Theology of the War on Terrorism
Author(s):
Aftab A. Malik, John L. Esposito, Zaid Shakir
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£14.99
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lxxxii + 348
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2005
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0-9540544-6-6
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In “the war against terrorism,” everyone believes that they have God on their side. Osama bin Laden regularly invokes God as does President George Bush. Whereas Bush views the world in terms of “good” and “evil” and regularly expresses foreign policy in theological terms, Bin Laden believes he is fighting a global jihad against the crusader enemies of Islam.

When religion is used to construct a black and white worldview, such an oversimplification can spawn radical ideologies, as the extremist evangelical fringes of Christianity and Islam have proven. Mainstream Muslims and Christians have expressed great alarm at the President’s closeness to the Christian Right—who voted in their millions for President Bush’s re-election—and particularly at evangelical leaders such as Reverend Fran...

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“This book departs from the prevalent Western tendency to portray Islamic extremism as an isolated religious aberration rather than as a response to historical and political developments in the Islamic world.

Not only does it point out that continuing American, Israeli and Russian aggression against Islamic peoples has fomented religious-based militancy among Muslims, but it draws needed attention to the fact that religious extremists within Christianity and Judaism have rout

Professor Tomis Kapitan, Northern Illinois University, Illinois, US

“This timely and richly sourced book spans the roots of the ‘War on Terrorism’ from Halliburton to the neo-cons to the Apocalypse...it unmasks a vast web of deceit consisting of media pundits, greedy executives and religious fanatics....”

Israel Adam Shamir, Author of The Galilee Flowers

“At Nuremberg in 1946, the Allied Tribunal rejected the German argument for pre-emptive war (the Bush doctrine) with the statement: ‘To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.’

Since the Anglo-American-Zionist ‘axis of good’ has opted for the wanton disregard

Professor Bruce J. Malina, Creighton University, Nebraska, US
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