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Loading... Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle Eastby Gilles Kepel
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The author of this book is French, so he provides an interesting perspective on the past 8 years or so. Of interest in the book, his analysis of the propaganda wars of various factions within Islamic jihadist, especially in Iraq. But also more broadly among groups aligned variously with Palestinians and Iran--especially Hezbollah and Hamas. He also analyzes the events with Muslim populations in London, Netherlands, Denmark, France during the same period. Of course, France comes out looking the best. But given all of the anti-French rhetoric in the states over the past few years, this is definitely an interesting perspective. Thoughtful, mostly interesting book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive dialogue between Islam and the West. This book sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these exhausted narratives are bankrupt-neither productive of democratic change in the Middle East nor of unity in Islam. No library descriptions found. |
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