About this title: Director of the Georgetown Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, John L. Esposito explains the fundamental issues at the heart of Muslim-Western conflicts and terrorism.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Date Published: 2003
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Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 2002
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Date Published: 2003
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"This was good, but the only new thing I found was how he outlined the basic beliefs of radical Islamsists and how that affects their thought processes."
"This book, published in 2002, is a perfect example of why most Americans are so misinformed about Islam in general and Wahhabism in particular: Saudi Arabia pays people like Esposito to whitewash their history and present their totalitarian regime, as well as their violent religious colonialism, as a moderating force in the Arab world.
In case you haven't been paying attention since 9/11, the Saudi government is not and has never been our friend. Aramco's friend, sure, but even if you ignore the fact that fifteen out of the nineteen people responsible for the disasters were from there (Not counting that Bin Laden guy), or the fact that they hold telethons to raise money for families of the suicide bombers they train, you have to consider their continuing refusal to cooperate with any of the actions we demanded from other terror allies (such as providing passenger lists for flights from their country, or freezing the assets of known terror supporters).
Saudi Arabia has always been a textbook dystopia; the government controls all the media, all the schools, all the resources, and all the religious institutions, and have consistently used every conflict involving muslims or arabs around the world in order to spread its backwards brand of Islam. But what continues to surprise me is the lengths that Americans will go to gloss over their state-sponsored violence and terrorism. In Esposito's case the organization at the other end of his leash is the Middle Eastern Institute, a Saudi Lobbying group who's job is to make sure that any kind of criticism against the ruling family is drowned out.
But aside from the source (as if an intelligent reader could ever separate the two), Esposito isn't proffering anything new here, though he does at least declare in a roundabout way that Osama Bin Laden is evil and terrorism is kinda bad. He allots three full pages to the issue of how modern islamic states developed (everywhere) and why they face increasing political instability (colonialism, colonialism, colonialism). He devotes an entire paragraph to what we can do to fight Wahhabism, and his solution is basically less government support for authoritarian regimes, and for muslims everywhere to reform their religion: simplistic solutions that sound lovely in print while simultaneously disregarding the reality of steady oil profits here as well as the police state that exists in Saudi Arabia (and extends to their state-sponsored mosques operating worldwide).
In the end, all Esposito has to offer is fluff and nonsense, and very few real solutions."
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