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Extremism
Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda (Comparative ...
Mark Juergensmeyer
University of California Press
, 2008
Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular ...
Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America's War Terror
Hassan Abbas
M.E. Sharpe
, 2004
Very relevant to what's happening today in South Asia/Pakistan
Very intriguing and bold work - exposes how religious bigots and fundamentalists have entrenched themselves in Pakistan. It doesn't spare anyone - Pakistan army and its intelligence, American foreign policy blunders, Indian intransigence and failure of Pakistan's ...
The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America
Kimberly Blaker
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Edward M. Buckner
, ...
New Boston Books
, 2003
An important message for America at just the right time
An important warning of the political forces organizing to turn America into a Christian theocracy at the earliest possible opportunity. A specialist in legal psychiatry, John M. Suarez,M.D outlines the increased number of attacks on the First Amendment in "The Path ...
TheoPalinism - The Face of Failed Extremism
Leah L. Burton
Vervante
, 2008
Burton writes from a unique perspective of being a multi-generational Alaskan who has worked as a lobbyist in Alaska for family and Children's Rights, lending her a distinctive view on this debacle. With an irreverent wink, wink, nod, nod.... Say it ain't so Joe! Aw gosh you betcha! Guys and gals! ...and all the other folksy disrespectful ...
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Ron Suskind
Harper
, 2008
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Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
Michael Barkun
The University of North Carolina Press
, 1996
Tour of one region in America's chaotic religious landscape
While I highly enjoyed this book and found it meticulously, yet engagingly, researched, I will try to refrain from repeating what other reviewers have already stated. What I would like to add, is that I was unexpectedly impressed with the tortuous connections Barkun ...
Bad Faith: The Danger of Religious Extremism
Neil J. Kressel
Prometheus Books
, 2007
What separates constructive religious impulses from destructive ones? How does someone who begins by contemplating his relationship with God end by committing an act of murder? Some argue that religiously motivated evil always represents a corruption of true religion. Others are quick to suggest that religion itself all religion is the root of ...
Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
Jeffrey T. Kenney
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2006
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith has ensured their place in both critical and ...
Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University
Robert O'Neil
Harvard University Press
, 2008
Less Than Meets the Eye
If you are unsure exactly what "academic freedom" means, this book will probably leave you more confused than ever. Even if you are an academic freedom wonk like me, the promised "wired world" revelations really comprise only one of the ten chapters, and, as might be ...
The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great ...
Michael Perelman
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2007
Confiscating American Prosperity: High Crimes and Economics
April 7, 2008 Reviewing The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression, Michael Perelman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 By Seth Sandronsky Michael Perelman, a professor of economics at California ...
Right-wing Extremism in the Twenty-first Century (Cass Series on Political Violence, 4)
Peter Merkl
Routledge
, 2003
The revival of right-wing extremism in post-Cold war Europe has created considerable concern, even consternation, on both sides of the Atlantic. The spectre of far-right political parties, headed by seemingly charismatic leaders, challenging for power in parliaments while far-right youth gangs attack gypsies, immigrants and asylum-seekers in the ...
Islamic Extremism: Causes, Diversity, and Challenges
Monte Palmer
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Princess Palmer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
, 2008
This accessible and deeply informed book examines the threat that Islamic extremists pose to America and provides a balanced discussion of the link between Iraq and the war on terror. Explaining the basics of Islam and guiding the reader through the intricacies of each significant fundamentalist group, the Palmers answer key questions: Who are the ...
Sword of Islam : Muslim Extremism from the Arab Conquests to the Attack on America
John F. Murphy Jr.
Prometheus Books
, 2002
Was John F. Murphy Jr. Ever Involved with Intelligence Gathering? A Thoughtful Critique.
On this website, John F. Murphy, Jr., categorically denies any involvement with the CIA assigned to him by my prior review of this book, which incidentally was a favorable one. However, on the Website for Prometheus Books, the publisher of Sword of Islam, located at ...
The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN ...
Pedro Sanjuan
Doubleday
, 2005
Confirms what any observer of the U.N. knows true
One does not have to read this book to understand that the U.N. is a corrupt, anti- American, anti- Semitic , racist organization. One only has to have followed the U.N. in its long history of hysterical anti- Israel resolutions, its obsessive focusing on one area of ...
Radical Islam Rising: Muslim Extremism in the West
Quintan Wiktorowicz
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
, 2005
Academically rigorous study.
Unlike many of the books available today, Wiktorowicz has written a book that is based on social science, not the faddish headlines of the day. The book will invariably divide readers into two camps; those who are interested in extremism and those who truly want to ...
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