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The Reluctant Jihadist
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Author : Umar A. Hassan
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-10-31
The Reluctant Jihadist written by Umar A. Hassan and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-31 with Religion categories.
The book consists of 2 sections. Section 1 is an interview with, what else, a reluctant jihadist. The second section is a collection of 99 posted blogs with a few interesting twists.
Reluctant Jihadist
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Author : Graham Holt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Reluctant Jihadist written by Graham Holt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with categories.
Rafe, a second-generation British citizen, whose grandparents fled India during the separation, grows up with Muslim parents still steeped in their traditional culture. He is unappreciated and bullied at school and so falls under the thrall of a fiery Imam who persuades him to leave his family and join a madrassa in Pakistan. His teachers in the madrassa, however, reject him as a fighter; he is too slight of build and asks too many questions. He is persuaded to return to England, albeit partly radicalised toward the strict adherence of Sharia law, and completes his education to find work in the oil industry. Unfortunately for him, his assistance to his radical Imam brings him under the scrutiny of the anti-terrorist police. He is treated badly by the police and becomes determined to fight, wanting to join Islamic State and the new caliphate. A more moderate Imam persuades him not to flee to Syria, just to become a suicide bomber like other young men, but to help, and see for himself how the caliphate works. He retrains as a paramedic and joins a hospital in Aleppo in the midst of the Syrian Civil War. His subsequent kidnapping by an IS group and forced employment at the main hospital in Raqqa with his colleagues, changes his life and his views. Meanwhile, in America a new president campaigns, and against all the odds is elected. His pre-election anti-Muslim rhetoric leads to an isolationist policy in which America intends to leave the Arab world to its own devices. Like Rafe, events suck America back into the Syrian Iraqi conflict, and the president also is forced to changes his views. As Rafe becomes involved in the clash of American and disparate Arab forces against Islamic State, he gains both stature and self-confidence, but his allegiances begin to change.
The Reluctant Martyr
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Author : Rick Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-12
The Reluctant Martyr written by Rick Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12 with Fiction categories.
Determined terrorists take a circuitous route towards their final destination. After losing one of their group on an aging freighter, the remaining trio reach Buenos Aires where they are met by a jihadist who takes them to Ciudad del Estrellas, Paraguay. It is here, with help from others sympathetic to their cause, that preparations are made for the last leg of their journey. After a harrowing plane ride, Jamal and his cohorts are transported across the border by a reluctant "coyote" whose grandson is held hostage as an incentive to get them across safely. Once across the border in Texas, a newly minted American jihadist provides them with a vehicle in which they travel to Houston. Once there, they are given the name of their contact in Rockledge, Missouri; their final destination. Yusef, the only surviving member of a sleeper cell in Rockledge, is a graduate student at the university, having spent his youth at a madrasa in Pakistan. He has lived in Rockledge for the past three years. The first year with another native Pakistani, Ahmed, who keeps Yusef on the straight and narrow path towards martyrdom until he dies tragically in a house fire, leaving Yusef at the mercy of American benevolence from others at the university. Yusef's newfound freedom halts when Jamal rolls into town and pulls in the reins that still attach Yusef to their cause. Shiite versus Sunni, Baptist versus Catholic, none of it matters to Jamal whose one-track mind keeps the other jihadists' in line as they prepare for the culmination of their efforts. Jamal's grandiose plan to detonate a bomb at Ft. Wilson, a sprawling military base thirty miles from Rockledge, nears completion with Yusef's reluctant help.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Author : Mohsin Hamid
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-04-24
The Reluctant Fundamentalist written by Mohsin Hamid and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-24 with Fiction categories.
The Man Booker-shortlisted, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . . Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.
Representing Violence
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Author : Jacqueline O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Representing Violence written by Jacqueline O'Rourke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Islam categories.
The Caravan
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Author : Thomas Hegghammer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-05
The Caravan written by Thomas Hegghammer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with History categories.
Traces Abdallah Azzam's path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.
Religious Ideology And The Roots Of The Global Jihad
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Author : J. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Religious Ideology And The Roots Of The Global Jihad written by J. Turner and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Social Science categories.
The events of 9/11 prompted questions as to the origins, nature and purpose of international jihadist organisations. In particular, why had they chosen to target the US and the West in general? Turner's book provides a unique, holistic insight into these debates, taking into account historical perceptions and ideology as key factors.
The Search For Al Qaeda
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Author : Bruce Riedel
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-06-01
The Search For Al Qaeda written by Bruce Riedel and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaeda—the origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy of the terrorist network that brought down the Twin Towers and continues to threaten us today. Bruce Riedel draws on decades of insider experience—he was actually in the White House during the September 11 attacks—in profiling the four most important figures in the al Qaeda movement: Usama bin Laden, ideologue and spokesman Ayman Zawahiri, former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Musaib al Zarqawi (killed in 2006), and Mullah Omar, its Taliban host. These profiles provide the base from which Riedel delivers a much clearer understanding of al Qaeda and its goals, as well as what must be done to counter and defeat this most dangerous menace.
Willful Blindness
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Author : Andrew C. Mccarthy
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2010-03-29
Willful Blindness written by Andrew C. Mccarthy and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-29 with Political Science categories.
Long before the devastation of September 11, 2001, the war on terror raged. The problem was that only one side, radical Islam, was fighting it as a war. For the United States, the frontline was the courtroom. So while a diffident American government prosecuted a relative handful of “defendants,” committed militants waged a campaign of jihad—holy war—boldly targeting America’s greatest city, and American society itself, for annihilation. The jihad continues to this day. But now, fifteen years after radical Islam first declared war by detonating a complex chemical bomb in the heart of the global financial system, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy provides a unique insider’s perspective on America’s first response. McCarthy led the historic prosecution against the jihad organization that carried out the World Trade Center attack: the “battalions of Islam” inspired by Omar Abdel Rahman,the notorious “Blind Sheikh.” In Willful Blindness, he unfolds the troubled history of modern American counterterrorism. It is a portrait of stark contrast: a zealous international network of warriors dead certain, despite long odds, that history and Allah are on their side, pitted against the world’s lone superpower, unsure of what it knows, of what it fights, and of whether it has the will to win. It is the story of a nation and its government consciously avoiding Islam’s animating role in Islamic terror. From the start, it led top U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies to underestimate, ignore, and even abet zealots determined to massacre Americans. Even today, after thousands of innocent lives have been lost, the United States averts its eyes from this harsh reality.
Representing Jihad
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Author : Jacqueline O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-08-09
Representing Jihad written by Jacqueline O'Rourke and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-09 with Religion categories.
The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between 'the West', Muslims and jihadists themselves. They are helped by Muslim interlocutors, who all too often play the role of 'good' Muslims explaining the motifs of the 'bad' Muslims. This timely book argues that Muslim theory and fiction has been significantly commodified to cater to the needs of western ideology. It skillfully critiques the ideological contradictions of the debate around the jihadist by offering a comprehensive analysis of Muslim and non-Muslim cultural critics. Ranging from Edward Said to Slavoj Zizek, from Don DeLillo to Orhan Pamuk and from Mohammed Siddique Khan to Osama bin Laden, this vastly heterogeneous discourse produces a multi-dimensional Muslim response. O'Rourke examines some of its critical fault lines in postcolonial theory and literary analysis. This groundbreaking book argues that the temptation to appropriate the figure of the jihadist offers a fertile area from which to launch a discussion about the limits of current theory.