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This past week marked the six-month anniversary of the world’s being turned upside down by the epic terrorist attacks on the United States. Since then, bookstores have sold record numbers of books on both Islam and the role it has played in the crises of the Middle East. Americans everywhere have struggled to come to terms with the philisophical motivations of any group who would engage in a war in which the main battle tactic is to kill oneself and as many people as possible at the same time. Essentially, when the absurdness of this idea...
...response to this new-found public interest, books on these subjects have been jumping out of basement shelves and leaping into lighted display cases in the windows of bookstores all across America. As Gilles Kepel’s Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam is a newly published addition to this lot, it too will most likely receive this coveted position...
Kepel charactarizes the attacks on America on Sept. 11 as an outgrowth of a movement in decline. He convincingly traces the political history of Islam to prove this point, showing that widespread support of the Islamist movement has dwindled due to the conflicting interests of different demographic portions of the population. He theorizes that the use of terrorism was meant to galvanize Muslims to take up the cause of jihad against the United States. If these were indeed the goals of the attacks, they failed miserably as Muslims everywhere failed to take up arms. The call for an embracing...
Jihad: The Trial of Political Islam...
...Vice-President Jonathan M. Gribetz ’02 took issue with Illingworth’s stance, saying that “there should be no conflict between Islam and Jews’ praying for peace for Israel and all people in the region...